Aizawl, April 3 -- More than 52,000 tourists from different parts of the country and abroad visited Mizoram during 2024.

According to a report quoting state tourism department data by Akashvani Aizawl, a total of 52,235 tourists arrived in the state last year, of which 42,184 were domestic tourists and the remaining 10,051 tourists came from different foreign countries.

The department data said that over 2.19 lakh tourists, including 3,884 foreign tourists from at least 14 different countries, including the United States, Britain, Japan, and Israel, visited the state from April 2023 to March 2024.

Thetourist footfallin 2022-23 was over 2.22 lakh of which 2.18 lakh were domestictouristsand 3,551 were foreigners, the data said.

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