CWG 2010:Tourists stay away from New Delhi over security fears

Tourist numbers are down, the organising committee are having difficulty selling tickets, hoteliers are complaining of empty rooms.

The projected bonanza of 100,000 extra people in the city to celebrate the Common wealth Games has failed to materialise. Local tourist bodies say only about 10,000 people are in New Delhi because of the Games.

The athletes are virtually bunkered down at the athletes' village and their training venues with many countries having banned them from going outside the security-fenced area.

Everyone is on tenterhooks fearing that the 300 tonnes of explosives that went missing from a convoy of 61 trucks last month in India will be used to target the Games.