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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