IMTA welcomes GoI’s Tourist Visa-on-Arrival scheme

The Indian Medical Travel Association (IMTA) has welcomed Government of India’s (GoI) recently announced Tourist Visa-on-Arrival for citizens of five countries - Finland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand and Singapore, in an effort to promote tourism. This facility has been useful not only for holiday tourists but also large number of foreign patients who now find it convenient to plan a visit to leading Indian hospitals for advanced health check up and medical treatment.

Pradeep Thukral, Executive Director, IMTA said, “IMTA welcomes Indian government’s new guidelines on Visa on Arrival and we have strongly recommended to the government to open up the facility to citizens of a larger number of countries. Most of the IMTA's member hospitals have reported higher volumes of patient arrivals and also enquiries from potential patients who wish to avail of Visa on Arrival facility.”