India’s already-weak inbound tourism is estimated to go down 15–20% this year as the Iran War severs the aviation corridors that deliver the bulk of long-haul visitors to the country, according to a new report from PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The decline is the sharpest external shock to hit an already-weak inbound market in years, with leisure travel from Europe and North America bearing the heaviest impact. Booking windows have compressed, itinerary flexibility has become a precondition, and the gap between travel interest and confirmed bookings has widened.
In 2025, India recorded 9 million foreign tourists, which was 9% less than 2024 and 17% less than the pre-pandemic high of 10.93 million arrivals.
Rajeev Kohli, joint managing director of Creative Travel, estimated that 10–15% of projected inbound tourism business for the year is already lost. “Even where demand exists, travelers are facing constraints in reaching India due to lim
Rephrase in a different way as if you were a native American speaker as a content creation expert and do not talk about yourself or your experience in the text and do not show yourself as an artificial intelligence who wrote and fill the bullet point in the topic and speak the heart of the topic itself and dont take date of blog in ther first and dont take text like box of newsliter subscribe on post from content and romove all linke insert in content and and remove all affiliate disclosure phrases on content like this “This post may contain Amazon or other affiliate links that allow us to earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Please see our Disclosure Policy for more info” and “#” put in its place bullet point, and romove name of the web site or his links we are take a content from our new creation, and don’t publish clone new content more than just one time
