MAIN SOURCES OF OVERSEAS VISITORS TO PAKISTAN

MAIN SOURCES OF OVERSEAS VISITORS TO PAKISTAN

     The United Kingdom has remained the main source of visitors.There were a total of 655,000 arrivals in 1999 of which the UK share was  21.5 %. The second highest source  of visitors was India , with  63,200 arrivals. Other sources  were Germany Japan,Russia & Central Asian Republics,China , Canada, the Netherlands, France , Sri lanka, Australia , Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Italy , Norway ,Denmark, Malaysia  and Turkey. A regional analysis  shows that the most  important source  was Europe  with over 40%  of the arrivals in 1999 followed by South Asian countries  consisting  of about 1/4  of the total tourist arrivals. More than half of overseas  visitors arrival in 1999 were visiting  friends and relatives (60%) followed by business travellers (18.3%) tourists ( recreational travellers) (13.4%) and religious tourists (2.5%) .Most of the visitors from overseas visited main cities like Karachi, Rawalpindi / Islamabad and Lahore. This is mainly  due to the nature of these visits, which are dominated  by Pakistanis returning to visit  friends and relatives.

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