South Korea to get visa-on-arrival facility early next year

South Korean nationals are likely to soon get visa-on-arrival facility, which is provided to visitors from 11 countries at present.
Tourism Ministry has sought the facility to be extended to about dozen more countries including South Korea, Germany, France and Russia to boost foreign tourist arrivals in the country.
"Though we have sought the VoA scheme for many countries, it is the Home Ministry which decides on it after taking into account all concerned issues," sources in Tourism Ministry said.
South Korea has got the nod and an announcement to this effect is likely to be made early next year, they said.

Currently, there are total 11 countries which have been given the VoA facility and after the inclusion of South Korea the number will go up to 12.
As a facilitative measure to attract more foreign tourists to India, Government had launched a scheme of visa-on-arrival (VoA) from January 2010 for citizens of five countries - Finland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand and Singapore, visiting India for tourism purposes.

The scheme was extended to six more countries including Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos and Myanmar in January 2011.
There were total number of 17,594 VoAs issued during January to November this year as compared to 13,903 VoAs during the corresponding period of 2012 registering a growth of 26.5 per cent.

During the month of November 2013, a total of 1824 VoAs were issued under the scheme as compared to 1630 VoAs during November 2012, registering a growth of 11.9 per cent.