Citizens of six more European countries will be able to travel to Turkey without a visa starting next month. The country will lift visa restrictions for tourists from Austria, Belgium,…

Accor and Visa have announced their global partnership to bring new payment experiences to ALL-Accor Live Limitless loyalty members. The partnership will bring together Accor’s…

Residents of Sri Lanka travelling to Lithuania can now apply for their visas at the VFS Global Visa Application Centre in the capital city of Colombo. Prior to this, customers had to…

South Africa is set to roll out an online visa application process in India next week and in China by February on pilot basis. On successful completion of the test run, the online visa…

The UAE will introduce a new multiple-entry visa scheme valid for five years for all nationalities as part of efforts to affirm the country’s position as a global tourist destination.…

As Sri Lanka tries to revive the tourism sector, which was hit by the Easter Sunday bombings, the country has extended the free visa-on-arrival scheme till 30 April for the citizens of…

VFS Global has launched the mobile biometrics (Visa at your doorstep) service for Italian visa customers across India, enabling them to submit applications, documents and enrol…

In conjunction with the Visit Malaysia Year (VMY2020), Tourism Malaysia is looking at tourist arrivals from China and India to increase by about 7%. This was revealed by Musa Yusof,…

The Malaysian government has gazetted two orders permitting a 15-day visa exemption for tourists, particularly from China and India in conjunction with Visit Malaysia Year 2020. For…

Travellers will have more options gaining entry in China as the country added Xian, Ningbo, and Chongqing to its growing list of 144-hour visa-free travel ports.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said the South American nation will drop its requirement that visiting Chinese and Indian tourists or businesspeople obtain visa. Bolsonaro, came…

In an expansion drive to meet the growing travel demand and to offer an enhanced visa application experience with an automated and seamless process, VFS Global officially inaugurated its…

VFS Global has rolled out Lithuania visa services in Mumbai to cater to travellers visiting the European country. H.E. Julius Pranevicius, ambassador of Lithuania to India and Giedrius…

Myanmar has added more countries to its visa-on-arrival list to make it easier for tourists to visit the country as it raises its tourism appeal worldwide. Effective from October,…

St. Petersburg will welcome Indian tourists through free e-visa from today. Indian visitors can now avail single-entry tourist, business and humanitarian visa from the comfort of their…

Government of India has decided to extend the validity of e-tourist visa validity to five years from the existing one year. This was announced by Prahlad Singh Patel, tourism minister of…

Thomas Cook India has launched home collection services for its visa business, in a focussed initiative to empower customers with a two-pronged benefit of convenience and safety. This is…

In a bid to attract one of the biggest source markets of outbound travellers in the world, Sri Lanka’s cabinet of ministers has approved a proposal from the Sri Lanka Tourism Ministry to…

VFS Global is extending its business hours to include Saturdays, with an aim to provide more flexibility to student visa applicants to the UK. The new ‘Student Saturdays’ initiative is…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and VFS Global have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the common objective of providing easier access to Georgia for travellers…

In a bid to attract more Chinese visitors, Malaysia has announced it will grant visa-on-arrival to six more entry points for Chinese tourists. The home ministry of Malaysia announced the…