For the first five months of 2023, travel from India to the US exceeded pre-pandemic volumes. Read more at straitstimes.com.
In 2022, India became for the first time Asia’s highest source of international travellers, according to tourism consultancy IPK International. International travellers from India in 2022 exceeded those of China, South Korea, and Japan, the company said.
For the first five months of 2023, travel from India to the US has exceeded pre-pandemic volumes, according to data from the US Department of Commerce National Travel and Tourism Office. Other Asian countries are lagging, particularly China, where travellers have been slow to return to the US post-pandemic.
US embassies and consulates in India have issued 44 per cent more non-immigrant visas in 2023 than in the same period in 2019, and are on course to process over one million visas this year, a State Department spokesman said.
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