After more than a year of restricting travel, India is getting ready to welcome back international tourists.
The country, which was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year, is set to begin granting fresh tourist visas to foreigners traveling by chartered flights on Oct. 15. Tourists may enter through non-chartered flights with a tourist visa starting Nov. 15.
India suspended all existing visas in March 2020. Travel through other visas – such as business and student visas – resumed earlier this year, but the country held off on resuming tourism. That changes later this month, according to a statement from India’s Ministry of Home Affairs.
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“All due protocols and norms relating to COVID-19 … shall be adhered to by the foreign tourists, carriers bringing them into India and all other stakeholders at landing stations,” the ministry said in a Thursday statement.
India faced a massive surge of COVID-19 earlier this year, hitting a new record of 414,188 new daily cases in May, but case counts have since dipped. As of Friday, there have been 21,257 cases…
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