About 7 lakh Indian tourists visited Germany in 2015

Indian tourist traffic to Germany rose by 84 per cent from 2007 to 2015 and over 6.92 lakh travellers visited the European country last year, Germany today said.
According to Romit Theophilus, India Director for German National Tourist Office, there has been a steady growth of Indian visitors to Germany.
"In 2007, 3,77,025 overnight Indian travellers visited Germany. The figure rose to 6,50,103 in 2014 and 6,92,612 in 2015. The rise from 2007 to 2015 is over 84 per cent," Theophilus said.
He said after Europe, a majority of the tourists to Germany come from the Americas and Asia-Pacific.
"In Asia, India ranks fourth in terms of travellers visiting Germany," Theophilus said.

India is expected to have 50 million outbound travellers by 2020 and Germany wants to attract a major chunk of it, he said.

German Ambassador Martin Ney said Indian students in Germany have doubled to 12,000 in the last four years and there were over 1,600 'desi' restaurants in the country.
On the impact of Syrian refugees on tourism, he said they are being integrated in a systematic and peaceful way and it will not affect the sector in anyway.
He said there has not been a single terrorist attack on Germany by ISIS due to the "excellent" work done by the security agencies.

"This is a political issue. It is dealt in a way which does not affect tourism. We have had over a million Syrian refugees in German cities and they are being integrated in a very systematic and peaceful way.
"Because it is being done in a safe and consensual way, it does not affect tourism," Ney said.
Germany was in the forefront as compared to other European countries in accommodating Syrian refugees.