First time since 2009, there has been a decline in people visiting US from India.
New Delhi: For the first time in the last eight years, there has been a surprise dip in the number of Indian travellers to the US.
About 11.14 lakh Indians went to the US in 2017, down 5% from 11.72 lakh in the previous year, according to the US department of commerce’s National Travel and Trade Office (NTTO) “forecast of international travellers to the US by origin countries”.

However, this trend is only temporary as the NTTO forecast an increase in the number of Indian travellers to the US from 2018 to 2022.
“The fall in numbers in 2017 over 2016 is an aberration caused by unfounded fears,” said a travel agent.
