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Tourist Numbers to Goa are Falling

Tourist Numbers to Goa are Falling”

An analysis on “European Summary of the analysis:

·         The Goa government  was targeting 6 million arrivals by 2016.

·         In 2014, 4.05 million people holidayed at this destination, more than twice the state’s population of 1.54 million.

·         Those numbers represent a remarkable 30 per cent spike from the 3.12 million tourists that descended on Goa in 2013.

·         The culture and the lifestyle are attracting ever larger numbers, the numbers of high value foreign tourists are slowing down.

·         Indian arrivals shot up by 34.82 per cent between 2013 and 2014, foreign tourists were up by a modest 4.3 per cent. Domestic travelers now constitute 87.34 per cent of Goa’s tourism market.

·         International arrivals that made for 23 per cent of the market in 2000, 17 per cent in 2010, have shrunk to 12.6 per cent (5.13 lakh arrivals last year)

·         Goa would have lost yet another 20 per cent of the UK market.

·         Russian footfalls, the largest segment of foreign tourists to Goa–it constituted 33 per cent of international arrivals till two years ago — are expected to slide by 40 per cent this year .

·         From the 162 charter flights that came in from the UK in 2013-2014 with 42,949 passengers, traffic on this sector was down to 129 flights with 32,979 tourists in 2014-2015.

·         Long haul charters that had done 895 flights to Goa from Russia in 2013-2014 with over 200,000 passengers, were down to 560 flights and around half that number till March this year.

·         the pressure on the beaches on the North Goa coast—most notably, Baga, Calangute, Candolim, Sinquerim and Anjuna—where basic infrastructure such as garbage clearance and roads, is struggling to keep pace with the sheer pressure of arrivals.

·         promoting charter tourism and FITs (free of itinerary traveller) makes far more sense than overselling in the domestic market.

·         One charter tourist contributes as much as five domestic ones and often stay longer in the state.

 


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