More tourists visiting to Sikkim
PTI | 09:07 PM,Jul 29,2010Gangtok, July 29 (PTI) Sikkim has recorded a rise in the number of tourists - domestic and international - who visited the state till June this year. The state Tourism department�s statistical record on arrival of domestic tourists for the month of January shows that 40160 fellow countrymen vacationed in Sikkim in January 2010 as compared to 30395 in January 2009. Similarly, in February this year, Sikkim received 48420 domestic tourists, 12537 more than February 2009. On the other hand, the arrival of international tourists has also seen a positive inflow thus far this year.January and February 2009 recorded 696 and 1,053 international tourist arrivals respectively. 2008�s numbers for these two months were 910 and 1,106 respectively. In January this year number of the foreign tourists, who visited the state was 984, in February it was 1320, March it was 2605, 3036 during April it was 3036 in May 1593 and in June it was 830, the data revealed.
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