US forecasts desi visitors to grow at fastest rate this decade; double from pre-Covid level in 2029

New Delhi: Uncle Sam hopes that India’s visitors will continue to grow at the fastest rate by the end of this decade – as it has been seen that there is Kovid post. The US Government’s National Tour and Tourism Office (NTTO) has estimated India’s visitors, in 2029 in 2029 to be more than double from 14.7 lakhs in 2019, as the second fastest at 131% at an average of 122% for the average of 122% for the rest of the world with Italy. Overall, the International visitors of the US are expected to increase by nearly 100 million in 2029, above the 7.9 crore mark in 2019.
The United States has so far seen only two countries’ visitors beyond pre-political levels-India and Italy. “Help by a strong economy, the journey from India increased by 552% from 2020 to 2024 and India has become the fourth largest American inbound travel market in 2024. This strong growth will continue over the next few years. A document by NTTO states that India’s visit is expected to exceed the 2019 levels.
Moving forward, NTTO estimated India to see the most growth on the 2019 visitors. “For India, one of the fastest growing countries since the epidemic, the arrival in the United States had already increased to about 50% of the east-pillar level in 2024. Although the visit to all Asian countries involved in the forecast rose significantly in 2024, China and Japan still returned to almost half-end-horoscope levels. At the same time, the arrival from South Korea reached three quarters of 2019 levels, ”the document states.
The NTTO forecast covers the top inbound markets for the US including Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, Italy, UK, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and Brazil. The tour of these countries was 78% of the total US international inbound arrival in 2024. The US classified these top markets under three heads: who crossed pre-political levels in 2024 (India and Italy); Which will do this in 2026 (Germany, France, Canada, Brazil and Mexico) and which will recover completely in 2027 and later (Australia, China, South Korea, Britain and Japan).
While the India-US journey is increasing the new high post covid, the travel industry says it is potentially down due to two factors-for a time Visa Interview Waiting Time And some direct flights are not using Russian airspace due to American airlines. A record number of Indians traveled to the US final calendar year, which was more than 17.6 lakhs of CY 2023, which overtook the East-Covid 2019 high of 14.7 lakhs. India is now the second largest foreign source of international visitors of America after the UK.
The waiting period for the B1/B2 interview is currently 407 days in Chennai; 156 in Delhi; 151 in Mumbai; According to the US State Department website, 140 in Hyderabad and 114 in Kolkata.