The number of foreigners availing Visa on Arrival (VoA) scheme registered 72 per cent increase in January 2012 as against January 2011. There were as many as 1359 foreigners, who availed themselves of the scheme in January compared with 790 in January 2011, registering a growth of 72 per cent.
As a facilitative measure to attract more foreign tourists, the Government had launched Visa on Arrival scheme in January 2010 for citizens of five countries — Finland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand and Singapore. The Government had extended the scheme to four more countries — Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines from January 2011.
There were total 6.81 lakh foreign tourists in India in January against 6.24 lakh during the same month in 2011, registering a growth of 9.2 per cent.
January 2012 also witnessed a growth of about 50 per cent in foreign exchange earnings and 9.2 per cent rise in foreign tourist arrivals in India. Forex earnings during January 2012 were Rs 8623 crore compared with Rs 5,777 crore in January 2011, a growth of 49.3 per cent.
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