Visa on arrival in four more cities

• Visa-on-Arrival facility for tourists will now be available at four more international airports across the country, besides the four existing metropolitan cities.
• Initiated at Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Hyderabad and Bangalore airports with effect from August 15.
• Visitors from 11 countries, including Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines and Myanmar, are eligible to avail the VoA facility.
• The scheme has contributed to an increase in the number of tourists from these countries, and the government is in the final stages of consultations on allowing the facility to citizens of another 10 countries, including Germany, France and Russia.