More Indian visitors to Germany

In spite of the devaluation of the rupee which made foreign travel costlier, there was a hike in the number of Indians visiting Germany last year. According to Romit Theolphilus, a senior German National Tourist Office official, who launched a Destination Germany India Pool road show here recently, tourist arrivals from India had increased by 5.4 per cent in 2013. During January-May this year, some 2.56 lakh `tourist overnights’ from India had been recorded. He hoped the arrivals would shoot up this year. Our Bureau