After Sri Lanka and Thailand, Vietnam may be the next destination to allow Indian travelers entry without the requirement for a visa.
According to local news agency VnExpress, Vietnam’s Chief Minister of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, Nguyen Van Hung, has called for short-term visa waivers for major markets like China and India to drive tourism recovery. As of now, only nationals of Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland can enter Vietnam free visa.
In the initial ten months of this year, Vietnam got almost 10 million global visitors, denoting a 4.6-fold rise compared with the corresponding time frame in 2022 and outperforming the targeted objective for 2023.
Beginning in mid-August, Vietnam started giving e-visas to individuals from all countries and territories, approving a legitimacy time of 90 days and permitting multiple entries. For residents from the 13 countries excluded from visa requirements, there has been a triple expansion in the span of stay, presently set at 45 days.
Indian voyagers have had a decent couple of months, with Thailand and Sri Lanka both declaring visa waivers. Beginning November 10, Thailand has rejected the need for a visa for Indian explorers. The visa exemption permits Indian tourists a 30-day stay and will be set up until May 10, one year from now. The Thai government later said the possibility of the scheme was being extended in the event that the request developed.
“We maintain that more tourists should visit Thailand,” the Tourism Authority of Thailand said. We had 965,994 Indian tourists. This year, from January 1 till October 31, we got 1,302,483 Indian tourists.”
In October, Sri Lanka also presented a visa-free entry drive for visitors from seven countries, including India, China, and Russia, as a component of a pilot project.
The pilot project, which started right away, will be active until March 31, 2024.
As per a McKinsey study delivered in November, Indian visitors are set to take off, given the general monetary thriving and a developing penchant for international travel to visit Vietnam free visa
“In the event that India follows China’s outbound travel direction (which it could, because of similarity in population size and per capita pay direction), then, at that point, Indian tourists could make 80 to 90 million trips a year by 2040,” said the report, From India to the World: Releasing the Potential of India’s Tourists.