Indians are flocking to Vienna - influence of Bollywood films?

Vienna is turning out to be a much favored destination of Indians. The Vienna Film Commission helping Bollywood director Karan Johar's ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ team to identify, finalize and shoot at a number of locations in the sprawling paradise. That could be a reason of why Indians are opting to visit Vienna.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 22 January 2016.

It seems a record number of Indians had gone to visit Vienna in 2015. The numbers had shown a 50 percent jump and the bulk of them even stayed overnight rather than a day's visit which used to be the practice earlier as indicated by the tourist board.
Vienna offers stately castles, culture, cuisine, music and vast green spaces. The increase in numbers of Indians are highest as compared to visitors from the Arabic countries and Taiwan. The city had attracted a record number of 40,355 Indians last year and 89,628 were overnight stays. The number of Indians visiting Vienna grew 49.5 percent and, the number of overnight stays grew 38.7 percent.
Vienna promotes its own tourism as against the larger Austria and is home to 27 castles, 163 palaces, 109 museums and 120 music and theater stages that hold more than 15,000 concerts annually.

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