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Table
No.7 : Item-wise Average Expenditure Per Mountaineer 1995 through 2004
(US $)
Items
1995
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
2002
2003 2004
%
change
in 2004
over
2003
International
Fare.
1224 1060 1101 1006 1447 1168 1021
990 916 1033
12.8
Luggage
Freight.
553 418 293
186
733
437
404
337 296 165
(-)
44.3
Local
Transport 406 226 270
151
307
272
203
125 198 247
24.7
Accommodation 319 301 176
337
288
284
298
248 253 335
32.4
Food
303 193 139
206
216
211
291
280 324 254
(-)
21.6
Shopping
310 216 169
215
384
259
256
585 296 416
40.5
Sight
Seeing 119 73 53
24
70
68
123
10 95 29
(-)
69.5
Others
288 377 221
42
62
198
294
244 291 229
(-)
21.3
Total Average
Expenditure
3522 2864 2422 2167 3507 2897 2890 2819 2669 2708
1.46
Source: Extracted from the files of Operations Section, Ministry of Tourism, Islamabad.