News & Events India's top 10 tourist destinations With Tirupati temple attracting hordes of visitors, Andhra Pradesh has become the top tourist destination in the country recording 155.8 million domestic tourists in 2010. "Tirupati temple in Andhra attracts maximum tourists. In fact, the number of domestic tourists visiting the state is more than Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra which have Taj Mahal and Ajanta Ellora respectively," a senior tourism ministry official said. The footfall at domestic tourist destinations across the country witnessed a surge touching 740 million in 2010, an increase of 10.7 per cent than the previous year. The number of domestic tourist visits to the states and Union Territories was 669 million in 2009 and 563 million in 2008. "The growth in domestic tourist visit in 2010 was about 11 per cent in comparison against the previous year," said the official. The number of foreign tourist visits to India during 2010 was 17.9 million as compared to 14.4 million in the previous year, registering a growth of 24.2 per cent.    More