Within the last years there has been a steady rise in the numbers of international tourists to Odisha.
These visitors were from countries like US, France, UK, America, Germany, Singapore, Netherland, Australia, Bangladesh, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Newzeland, South Africa, South Korea and Switzerland. The number of night stay visitors from these countries has increased from 9,859 in the year 2016-17 to 13,785 in 2017-18 and further to 20,127 in the year 2018-19. The revenue generation from the source has shown a steady upward trend from 0.47 crore in 2016-17 to Rs 5.6 crore in 2018-19.