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Tamil Nadu’s Mamallapuram becomes most visited monument in India by foreigners over Taj Mahal

Mamallapuram or Mahabalipuram hosts the Hindu Group of Monuments, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is a well-known tourist destination in India. It was one of the Pallava kingdom's two main ports. Several of the royal monuments there were carved out of living rock. Tamil Nadu is home to six of the top ten monuments on the foreign tourists' list.

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Updated Oct 3, 2022, 17:12 IST

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Taj Mahal was second in terms of number of foreign tourists visiting it.
Six out of top ten monuments visited by foreign tourists are in Tamil Nadu.

Mamallapuram: According to the Indian Tourism Statistics 2022 published by the tourism minister, the Taj Mahal has lost visitors to Mamallapuram, a Tamil Nadu town recognised as a UNESCO world heritage site.

According to the data, Mamallapuram, which is around 60 kilometres from Chennai, received 1,44,984 foreign visitors in 2021–2022, The Indian Express reported.

45.50 percent of the international visitors, who paid a visit to the top 10 most visited and centrally protected monuments in the country, visited Mamallapuram. With 38,922 foreign visitors or 12.21 percent of all foreign visitors, the Taj Mahal in Agra took second place.

Tamil Nadu is home to six of the top ten monuments on the global tourists' list. They are the Thirumayam Fort, the rock-cut Jain temple, and Sittanavasal in the Pudukkottai district, the Gingee Fort close to Gingee District, the Vattakottai Fort close to Kanyakumari District, and the tiger-headed, rock-cut temple and two other monuments in coastal hamlet Saluvankuppam in Chengalpattu District.

Other sites on the list include the Red Fort in Delhi with 5,579 visitors, the Qutb Minar in Delhi with 8,456 visitors, and the Agra Fort in Uttar Pradesh with 13,598 international visitors.

The top five domestic tourist destinations in 2021, according to the research, will be Tamil Nadu (115,33 million visitors), Uttar Pradesh (109,70 million visitors), Andhra Pradesh (93,27 million visitors), Karnataka (81,33 million visitors), and Maharashtra (43.56 million).

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