Visa Policies Fail to Keep Up With India’s Growing Travel Market
Skift Take
Most countries are still prejudiced against the Indian passport. That's a shame. Indian travelers are a legitimate, growing source for the global tourism industry. Thailand understands that; Australia not yet. Maybe it'll take a cricket match to change that.
For a country that has produced the likes of Google CEO Pichai Sundararajan, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Novartis’ Vasant Narasimhan, Pepsico’s Indra Nooyi, and a whole lot of other brilliant, high-profile people, India still gets shoddy treatment with visas for its traveling citizens.
One would think that by now — with such luminaries helming Fortune 500 companies, and with India's expanding middle class — countries globally would have recalibrated their idea of the Indian traveler, which would seem to be mired in the slums. Indians love to travel yet countries are prejudiced against the Indian passport. Visa applications require such evidence as sufficient funds to cover the travel and are tedious — just look at what Australia wants in the article below and why this has resulted in visa processing dela
