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Wednesday, May 20, 2026
TopicForeign Tourists

Topic: Foreign Tourists

House panel flags India’s tourism failures, slams govt’s ‘Bangladesh & strong domestic market’ argument

Arrivals from Bangladesh fell 73.4% in 2025. The tourism ministry used it to explain away an overall decline, but a parliamentary committee was not convinced.

Gujarat is the new foreign visitor hotspot. Goa, Tamil Nadu see dramatic drop

Maharashtra accounted for 17.69% of foreign tourist arrivals in 2019-24, the highest of all states and union territories. In 2019, the top spot belonged to Tamil Nadu.

Men from Haryana, UP, TN, Karnataka harass foreign women in Goa. And Goa gets a bad name

Maybe the only way to truly police Indian men’s behaviour is to have their mothers accompany them on every trip. Should they want to approach a stranger, they must ask mummy first.

How Shillong men behaved around a woman tourist is a model rest of India desperately needs

Much of the praise has focused on the ‘protective’ men in the crowd. It recentres male authority over public space. Do women require guardianship simply to exist outside?

Goa, Kerala lose sheen as more foreign tourists pick Maharashtra & Bengal, shows RBI data

RBI data shows 26 states and Union Territories couldn’t regain pre-pandemic foreign tourist footfalls in 2024, but domestic tourism surged 27 percent compared to 2019.

India still attracting fewer foreign tourists than it was pre-pandemic even as NRI arrivals soar

While NRI arrivals crossed 2019 levels according to tourism ministry’s report, experts say govt must focus on foreign tourists as they are the main spenders amid international travellers.

Children are Old Delhi’s newest tour guides. Tourists can’t get enough of them

Want to explore Old Delhi’s lanes and rich history? You can connect with 10-year-old Anabiya, 16-year-old Kajal, 17-year-old Chandni, or 21-year-old Heena.

The curious India tourism paradox. Domestic pilgrims opt for luxury, foreigners go budget

India’s pilgrimage business is booming, with choppers for the rich and dorm beds for the poor. But the days of wooing foreigners to the Taj, Jaisalmer, and Palace on Wheels are over.

Foreign tourists spooked by India-Pakistan tensions. Changing plans, ditching north

Many tourists are changing plans and looking for alternative holiday destinations within India. They’re steering clear of Leh, Rishikesh, Shimla and other popular spots.

Every assault that foreign women carry home rewrites the India story—and we let it happen

The Israeli tourist in Karnataka did everything India asks of women to be safe—and yet she carries home the scars of a brutal sexual assault.

On Camera

Norway’s Modi cartoon was not satire. Just colonial laziness

Political satire is indispensable to democracy, racial caricature isn’t. If Europe’s liberal press still cannot tell difference, then decolonisation never happened in their imagination.

Recovery of unclaimed shares, dividends now takes days, not yrs. EAC-PM credits investor watchdog revamp

PM-EAC paper says overhaul of Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority system sharply improved processing speed and reduced paperwork for investors.

Dragon’s armour: How Xi reshaped China’s military with theatre commands a decade before India’s push

While India yet to set in motion theaterisation of armed forces, China's military reforms combined China’s Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force aimed at regional dominance & tight political control.

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.