{"id":48336,"date":"2014-03-13T09:59:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T07:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=48336"},"modified":"2014-03-13T09:59:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T07:59:07","slug":"1-7-growth-in-tourist-visa-on-arrival-in-india-in-february-2014-48336","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/1-7-growth-in-tourist-visa-on-arrival-in-india-in-february-2014-48336\/","title":{"rendered":"1.7 % growth in tourist visa on arrival in India in February 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_48337\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48337\" style=\"width: 392px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48337\" alt=\"India provides VoA facilities to citizens of 11 countries. \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Visa-on-Arrival-India-Nationalturk-13.jpg\" width=\"392\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Visa-on-Arrival-India-Nationalturk-13.jpg 392w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Visa-on-Arrival-India-Nationalturk-13-261x220.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">India provides VoA facilities to citizens of 11 countries.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>India witnessed 1.7 per cent growth in foreign tourist arrival under Visa on Arrival (VoA) scheme in the month of February this year.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, March 13\/Nationalturk \u2013 In a good news for Indian economy and people associated with tourism sector, India witnessed 1.7 per cent growth in foreign tourist arrival under Visa on Arrival (VoA) scheme in the month of February this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn February 2014, a total of 1980 VoAs were issued as compared to 1947 VoAs\u00a0 issued during the month of February 2013. Thus arrival of foreign tourists under VoA scheme registering a growth\u00a0 of 1.7% in the month of February,\u201d an official of Indian Tourism Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>He said a growth of\u00a0 6.8% percent was recorded in number of foreign tourists availing\u00a0 VoA Scheme during January-February 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA total number of 3883 VoAs were issued in this period as compared to 3637 VoAs during the corresponding period of 2013,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<h2>VoA facility for citizens of 11 countries in India<\/h2>\n<p>India is providing VoA facility to citizens of 11 countries.<\/p>\n<p>As a facilitative measure to attract more foreign tourists to India,\u00a0 India launched VoA scheme in January 2010 for citizens of five countries &#8212;\u00a0 Finland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand and Singapore, \u00a0for tourism purposes. The scheme was extended to the citizens of six more countries, namely Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos and Myanmar in January 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c539 tourists from Japan, 389 from New Zealand (389), 299 from Indonesia),\u00a0 283 from Philippines, 258 from Singapore, 127 from Finland, 30 from Myanmar, 24 from Vietnam, 18 from Luxembourg, 10 from Cambodia and 3 from Laos travelled to India in February under VoA scheme,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Asia News<\/b><strong>\/ NationalTurk India News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India witnessed 1.7 per cent growth in foreign tourist arrival under Visa on Arrival (VoA) scheme in the month of February this year.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,68,63,51,1,118,117,14],"tags":[15072,12074,42529,2546,18139,53949,808,2069,15071,43570,9827,1926,3144,900,66171,55336,9282,42548,43568],"class_list":["post-48336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-business","category-daily","category-economy","category-general","category-hot","category-travel","category-world","tag-cambodia","tag-finland","tag-foreign-tourist","tag-india","tag-indian-economy","tag-indian-tourism-ministry","tag-indonesia","tag-japan","tag-laos","tag-luxembourg","tag-myanmar","tag-new-zealand","tag-philippines","tag-singapore","tag-tourism-purposes","tag-tourism-sector","tag-vietnam","tag-visa-on-arrival","tag-voa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}