India's November tourist arrivals up 15.5%

Reuters have reported that tourist arrivals in India rose 15.5% in November from a year earlier, boosting foreign exchange earnings from the sector by 27.6% on year to $908.2 million, the government said.

There were 510,987 foreign visitors in November, compared with 442,413 in the same month of last year, the Tourism Ministry said in a statement.

Tourist arrivals in the first eleven months of 2007 totalled 4.40 million, up 12.7% from the same period last year.