India Launches E-visa Facility for 43 Countries -Cheapairetickets.in

New Delhi, 27^th November 2014: (IANS) India declares launching e-visa (electronic visa) facility to tourists for 43 countries like US, Japan, Israel, Palestine and others in order to encourage  tourism industry as well as Indian airlines to provide trouble-free travel to international visitors.

Tourist Visa on Arrival service enabled with electronic travel authorization (ETA) scheme has been launched by Rajnath Singh (Union Home Minister) and Mahesh Sharma (union Culture and Tourism Minister).

Rajnath Singh stated, "Because of its amazing geographical location, India has a unique advantage in tourism industry and abundance of diversity in weather conditions is hard to find with other countries".

“Rich cultural heritage of India can be seen in Indian history and safety, cleanliness and hospitality are all about what tourists expect in India”, Mahesh Sharma stressed.

Other than above mentioned countries, tourists from Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Cook Islands, Djibouti, Micronesia, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Tonga, Laos, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Mexico, Myanmar, New Zealand, Niue, Norway, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Kiribati, South Korea, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Russia, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tuvalu, UAE, Ukraine, Vietnam and Vanuatu also can take benefit of getting e-visa just by following four-simple steps at https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/Visa_VOA/tvoa.html

Under electronic visa, tourists can get entry in India within 30 days from the date of ETA’s approval they will be allowed to stay for 30 days from arrival date. Though the facility can be extended to other countries in a phased manner.

Entry and departure for tourists will be allowed once they are done to book cheap air tickets India for flying from nine international airports including Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Thiruvananthapuram, Goa, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kochi. With this facility, tourists can take pleasure of usual sightseeing as well as recreational activities. Moreover, tourism ministry of India has also decided to include other facilities such as casual business visit and medical visit for short duration.

                               

As per officials, 75 Tourist Visa On Arrival counters will be set there at nine international airports in order to provide easy transaction.

“Checking background of tourists will be performed through ready to use database and TVOA counters will perform as first stage of tourists’ personal interaction with the authority”, P.K.Bhardwaj, the Joint Director of immigration department said.