The gloom and doom in the tourism industry is getting gloomier. Tourist arrivals continued to dip in April and unlike in past years, the Nepal Tourism Board's numbers now show just how badly Indian arrivals have plummeted. Overall arrivals were down by 46 percent by end- April, which included a 35 percent drop in Indian tourists and a 49 percent dive in the arrivals of non-Indians. April, marred by the five-day Maoist strike, saw arrivals drop by 49 percent. Arrivals from the main markets-the US, the UK, Japan and France-are already down by about 50 percent on average. The Japanese seem to be the bravest, their arrivals have fallen least steeply, "only" by 34 percent.