India Allows Visa-on-Arrival for 3 Countries - India Report
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India now allows nationals from Japan, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates to get a visa-on-arrival for tourism, business, conferences, and medical purposes. The visa will be valid for 60 days, and travelers will be able to visit India up to two times during that period.
The facility is currently available at six airports: Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Mumbai.
India also offers e-visas with electronic travel authorization (ETA) to citizens from 167 countries for these four categories.
International Travel to India: In 2023, more than 9.2 million foreign tourists visited India, up 44% from 2022, according to the government’s latest Economic Survey for 2023-24. However, this figure has still not recovered to the pre-pandemic figure of over 10.9 million in 2019.
Last year, India earned INR 2.3 trillion ($27.5 billion) in foreign exchange through tourism. While this was 66% higher than 2022, according to a report by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), international visitor spending last year was over 14% behind the 2019 levels.
Small Steps: In the Indian budget announced last month, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the focus would be on making India a global destination.
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