Vietnam visa for german citizens

Nguyen Quoc Ky, CEO of local tour organizer Vietravel, believes Vietnam’s current visa-free travel policy is insufficient and should be expanded to more countries. He explained his view in this piece sent to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper. Vietnam’s international tourist arrivals have been growing steadily in recent years, averaging 11 percent growth per year. In 2016 alone, Vietnam received more than 10 million foreign visitors. This growth is positive only when considered in the context of Vietnam, but when compared to South Korea or Japan for instance, our growth is much slower. Where’s the bottleneck? Giving gifts to those who don’t really want it Many tourists complain that the visa rigmarole is one of the biggest drivers of not visiting a country. At present, Vietnam exempts visa for 22 countries and territories. However, many of these are countries that many Vietnamese have not … [Read more...] about Opinion: Why Vietnam needs to expand its visa exemption policy

Vietnam’s government has extended a visa waiver program benefiting citizens of five European countries, just before the existing policy expires at the end of this month. This is the second one-year extension Vietnam has given to the visa-free policy applicable to German, French, British, Italian, and Spanish visitors since its introduction in 2015. Under the extended program, people arriving in Vietnam from these five countries won’t have to apply for a visa for travel between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018. The maximum allowable stay is 15 days per entry, applicable to all kinds of passport and travel purposes. The extension comes just in time as travel firms had began to worry whether their policies would perpetuate as the June 30 deadline drew near. The visa-free travel policy has lured more tourists from the five European countries to Vietnam over the last two years, according to … [Read more...] about Vietnam extends visa waiver for five European countries