Over 196K people including foreigners visited Mizoram in 2023: Tourism Dept Over 1,96,000 tourists including foreigners visited Mizoram in the year 2023, the state Tourism department said.
A total of 1,96,880 tourists visited the northeastern state in 2023 of which 1,93,445 were domestic and 3,435 were foreigners, the state tourism department.
With 1,162 tourists, Americans topped the list of foreigners visiting the northeastern state, it said, adding that tourists from other foreign countries including Japan, Australia, Israel, Canada and the United Kingdom, also visited Mizoram last year.
The tourist footfall in 2022-23 was over 2.22 lakh of which 2.18 lakh were domestic tourists and 3,551 were foreigners.
The tourist footfall in the state was minimal during the Covid-19 pandemic.
It was 20,564 in 2020-21 and 1.32 lakh in 2021-22.
Mizoram tourism is making headway with a 'responsible' tourism policy that came into force in August 2020.
The 'responsible' tourism policy envisages a sustainable development strategy, coordination, strengthening institutio
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