Indonesia is confident of achieving its yearly target of welcoming 10 million international visitors by the end of 2015 despite the reduced arrivals in Sumatra and Kalimantan caused by forest fires an
Foreign arrivals to Vietnam reached more than 6.33 million in the first ten months of this year, a decrease of 4.1 percent year-on-year, announced the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.
Foreign visitors will continue to increase by this year end and beyond partly due to the positive visa policy, said an official of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).
Travel operators attending the recently-concluded International Trade Show for Asian Travel Market (ITB Asia) hailed Vietnam’s 15-day visa exemption for tourists.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has signed a decree on visa exemption for citizens of 75 countries in a move to boost foreign tourist arrivals and the country’s economy, according to Antara news agen
The new regulations on visa exemption for overseas Vietnamese aim to create more favourable conditions for overseas Vietnamese to return to the home land, said Deputy Foreign Minister Vu Hong Nam.
Vietnamese expatriates, their spouses and children are able to enter Vietnam without visas as stipulated in a decree recently issued by the government.
Thailand’s new six-month, multiple-entry tourist visas will become available from November 13, announced the country’s Foreign Ministry on September 22.
The Indonesian government will waive visa requirements for another 45 countries by the end of this year, ahead of schedule and bringing the total figure to 90, reported the Antara news agency.
Vietnam should extend the visa-free period for visitors from five Western European countries, industry insiders told the recent 2015 International Travel Expo HCM City.
Vietnam is hastening the authority of Hong Kong ( China ) to consider the grant of working visa to Vietnamese citizens, according to Vietnamese Consul General to Hong Kong and Macau Hoang Chi Trung.
Myanmar and Thailand are exempting visas requirements for each other’s citizens travelling by plane as of August 11 to foster their respective tourism sectors, said the Thai Embassy in Myanmar.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi held bilateral meetings with her counterparts from six countries on the fringe of the 48th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-48) in Kuala Lumpur on Aug.6.
The number of international tourists to Vietnam bounced back in July with 593,566 arrivals, up 12.1 percent over the previous month and 5.1 percent against the same period last year.
The capital city’s tourism sector has launched a number of promotion programmes to attract tourists from Belarus and five Western European countries – Germany, France, the UK, Italy and Spain.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore is working with Singapore’s Immigration and Checkpoints Authority to determine why some Vietnamese nationals, mainly women, were denied entry to Singapore.
More work needs to be done to ensure that the ASEAN Economic Community integration will actually bring about a stronger and more prosperous region, a senior financial institution official said.
Cooperation between the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Transport has contributed to the development of Vietnamese tourism, a minister said.
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