Islamabad
Pakistan earned $ 48.930 million by providing different travel services in various countries during the first two months of financial year 2020-21.
This shows decline of 41.14 percent as compared to $ 83.134m same services were provided during the corresponding period of fiscal year 2019-20, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said.
During the period under review, the personal travel services witnessed decreased by 41.07 percent, from $ 82.284 million last year to $ 48.490 million during July-August.
Among these personal services, the exports of personal expenditure increased by 60 percent by going up from $0.150 million last year to $0.240 million whereas education related expenditure decreased by 11.96 by going down from $0.920 to $0.810 million. In addition, the other personal services also dipped by 41.59 pc, out of which religious and other travel services witnessed negative growth of 97.59 and 41.41 pc respectively.
