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Tiruchi territory has topped successful the accomplishment of tourists successful the State this year.
According to the statistic of the Department of Tourism, Tiruchi territory attracted 23.09 lakh tourists up to August this year. Of them, 22.94 lakh were home travellers and the remaining 14,706 were foreigners. It is followed by Madurai territory with 21.65 lakh tourists. However, Madurai had a higher stock of overseas travellers astatine 1.53 lakh.
As acold arsenic the accomplishment of overseas tourists is concerned, Madurai is astatine the top, followed by Tiruchi.
Thoothukudi occupied the 3rd spot with 21.10 lakh tourists, followed by Ramanathapuram district, which houses Sri Ramanathaswamy Temple successful Rameswaram, with 20.16 lakh tourists. Ramanathapuram territory lags successful attracting overseas tourists accounting for 3,501 of them.
Thanjavur district, which is location to Sri Brihadeeswarar Temple, popularly known arsenic Big Temple and a satellite practice site, attracted 15 lakh tourists. More than 14.71 lakh tourists person visited Tiruvannamalai, wherever Sri Arunachaleswarar Temple is located. It is followed by Coimbatore territory with 14 lakh visitors. Nagapattinam territory attracted implicit 12 lakh tourists this year.
An investigation of the statistic shows that the districts that attracted much than 15 lakh tourists person fashionable places of worship, including historical temples, churches, dargahs, and monuments. Sri Mariamman Temple successful Samayapuram, Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple successful Srirangam, the Rockfort Temple, and others successful Tiruchi pull devotees not lone from Tamil Nadu but besides from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, and truthful on.
“Among each types of tourism, we find spiritual tourism basal first. As acold arsenic Tiruchi is concerned, it has a balanced maturation successful presumption of places of worship, concern and commercialized and heritage. The advent of societal media has added to the maturation of home postulation successful Tiruchi region. The signifier suggests that the fig of tourists is acceptable to summation successful the coming years arsenic well,” says S.A. Mubashir, vice-president, Tiruchi Tourism Federation.
