{"id":34890,"date":"2013-03-04T10:42:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T08:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=34890"},"modified":"2024-02-17T13:26:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:26:29","slug":"india-plans-to-extend-visa-on-arrivals-to-citizens-of-16-more-countries-34890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/india-plans-to-extend-visa-on-arrivals-to-citizens-of-16-more-countries-34890\/","title":{"rendered":"India plans to extend visa on arrivals to citizens of 16 more countries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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India is planning to extend visa on arrivals to citizens of 16 more countries, including Germany, France, Russia, Brazil and Malaysia.<\/h1>\n

New Delhi, March 4\/Nationalturk – \u00a0In yet another move to attract more tourists to the country and increase foreign exchange earnings, India is planning to extend visa on arrivals to citizens of 16 more countries, including Germany, France, Russia, Brazil and Malaysia.<\/p>\n

India is providing visa on arrival with a maximum validity for 30 days to citizens of 11 countries — Singapore, New Zealand, Luxembourg, Japan, Finland, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Philippines, Indonesia and Myanmar.\u00a0 The facility was launched in January 2010.<\/p>\n

An independent study conducted by the Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (IITTM) has noted that visa on arrival \u00a0scheme has a significant and positive impact on the decision to travel to India.<\/p>\n

Visa on Arrival scheme has been a great success<\/h2>\n

The Indian Tourism officials said the Visa on Arrival (VoA) scheme has been a great success and the visa on arrivals in country registered a growth of 24.4 per cent in January this year.<\/p>\n

The Indian Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi recently met country\u2019s Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and submitted a proposal to extend Visa-on-arrivals to 16 more countries.<\/p>\n

According to him, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Sweden and Norway will cover the European and Scandinavian countries, which are key inbound markets. \u00a0\u201cSimilarly, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are likely to cover the emerging markets from the CIS countries. \u00a0Brazil and South Africa will cover foster IBSA Cooperation and Trinidad & Tobago to foster our historical links. Thailand, Malaysia and Brunei will cover all the ASEAN countries, which will be consistent with our look east policy. South Korea should also be included as it is a very important tourist generating market\u201d.<\/p>\n

An Indian tourism official said they have also proposed\u00a0 extension of tourist visa on arrival to more airports namely Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kochi, Goa, Bodhgaya and Trivandrum.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter clearance and green signal from Home Ministry,\u00a0 the tourist visa on arrival facility will be provided to 16 more countries. This will help in earning more foreign exchange,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n

Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk India\u00a0 News<\/strong><\/p>\n

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