Goa clears deck for VoA
The state is also working on various e-initiatives to make it easy for international and domestic travellers to plan and book an itinerary online.
Goa Tourism is determined to grow tourism in the state round-the-year and is eagerly waiting for further communication to start the Visa- on-Arrival (VoA) facility, while it puts up relevant infrastructure in place.
“It will be great if we could start offering VoA at Goa for the forthcoming inbound season. Presently, we have not got information from the government. In fact, we are geared up in terms of the relevant infrastructure at our newly-refurbished air- port,” said Nikhil Desai, Managing Director GTDC.
There is still some time left for the inbound season, which Goa Tourism now successfully markets as the Monsoon Holiday season. To promote the holiday season in Goa in the north, Dilip
Parulekar, Minister for Tourism, Goa led a delegation comprising MD, GTDC and other members to Delhi and Gurgaon. In fact, Valsala
Vijayan, Deputy Resident Commissioner of Goa also inaugurated a three-day cultural festival in New Delhi.
Apprising of the other new developments, Desai said, “We are working on various e-initiatives and tourists will be able to upload Goa packages online. The idea is to make things easy for tourists.”
On being questioned by that whether such initiatives would end up making things easy for the people and difficult for travel trade, Nikhil responded by saying, “When things become easy for people, all gets benefited.”