Jaipur: The Tourism Ministry is in talks with the Ministries of Home Affairs and External Affairs to extend the visa-on-arrival facility at more airports like Bangalore and Hyderabad to visitors from about 15 countries.
“We have proposed to the Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs to extend the visa-on-arrival facility to be available at more international airports in India including Bangalore and Hyderabad which would cover tourists from about 15 more countries under its ambit,” Additional Director General (MR), Tourism Ministry, A.K Gupta said on the sidelines of the Great India Travel Bazaar (GITB) 2013 function.
Both the ministries are examining the proposal and its feasibility, he added.
An initiative of the Tourism Ministry, Department of Tourism (Rajasthan) and industry chamber FICCI, GITB has been successfully organised in Jaipur since 2008. It is a pan-India international platform for inbound tourism.
15/04/13 PTI/Business Line
