{"id":19688,"date":"2014-07-17T15:26:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T09:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=19688"},"modified":"2014-07-17T15:26:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T09:56:28","slug":"trivandrum-and-kochi-airports-to-get-e-visa-facility-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/trivandrum-and-kochi-airports-to-get-e-visa-facility-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivandrum and Kochi Airports to get &#8216;e-Visa\u2019 facility soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, <a title=\"India expands Visa-On-Arrival facility to 180 countries\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/india-expands-visa-on-arrival-facility-to-180-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visa-On-Arrival <\/a>facility was launched in Trivandrum and Cochin International airports. Now, the Central government has decided to include both airports under the <strong>e-Visa facility<\/strong> which will be implemented soon.<\/p>\n<p>Trivandrum and Cochin Airports are among the 9 airports that will have &#8216;e-Visa\u2019 facility. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced the proposal to grant e-visas to international tourists coming to India while presenting the first national budget of the Narendra Modi government.<\/p>\n<p>An &#8216;e-Visa\u2019 (or <strong>Electronic Travel Authorization<\/strong>) is an electronic document obtained online and does not require a visa stamped in the passport prior to arrival in another country. In other words, this is almost an equivalent of visa-on-arrival, though the documentation procedures are more detailed.<\/p>\n<h4>|Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/free-wi-fi-at-trivandrum-international-airport-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Free Wi-Fi at Trivandrum International Airport<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>E-Visa facility will give a major boost to tourism in India and Kerala being a major player in the tourism sector, the new facility will attract more tourists to the state. The move will benefit foreign leisure travellers and MICE (meetings, incentives, conference and exhibition) travellers who form a good percentage of travellers to Kerala. Trivandrum International airport has already started making arrangements such as new travel desks and resting area, to facilitate e-visa travellers.<\/p>\n<p>E-visa will be implemented in the 6 months in a phased manner. Countries to which the Electronic Travel authorisation facility would be extended would be identified in a phased manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Visa-On-Arrival facility was launched in Trivandrum and Cochin International airports. Now, the Central government has decided to include both airports under the e-Visa facility which will be implemented soon. Trivandrum and Cochin Airports are among the 9 airports that will have &#8216;e-Visa\u2019 facility. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced the proposal to grant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[423,452],"class_list":["post-19688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-kochi","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}