Madrid, Spain.-La streamlining Visa has experienced strong progress in recent years, especially through the implementation of policies for issuing visas on arrival, said today the Organization World Tourism ( OMT ).
According to the latest report from the OMT on openness concerning the regime of Visa (Visa Openness Report), it generally reflects greater awareness among public officials of the positive effects of visa facilitation in tourism and economic growth.
According to the report, 62 percent of the world population needed to obtain a Visa Traditional before leaving on a trip in 2014, that percentage was 77 percent in 2008. In 2014, 19 percent of the world population could enter a destination without a visa, while 16 percent could get a visa on arrival, off percentages in 2008 of 17 percent and 6 percent respectively.
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The report also shows that the main measure of facilitation applied was that of “ Visa on arrival. “. More than half of all the improvements made in the last four years were to modify the requirement of Visa mandatory for visa on arrival.
The Secretary General OMT , Taleb Rifai, said that “the streamlining of Visa is essential to stimulate economic growth and job creation through tourism.”
“Although there is still much room for improvement, we are pleased to see that an increasing number of governments around the world is taking decisive steps in this direction,” he stressed. The OMT noted that some countries in the Americas and Asia-Pacific have been at the forefront in terms of streamlining Visa , while Europe and the Middle East have maintained policies more restrictive.
In general, emerging economies tend to be more open than advanced, with Southeast Asia, East Africa, Caribbean and Oceania among the most open subregions.
Rifai He said that the OMT provides that international tourist arrivals reached the thousand 800 million for 2030, adding that the simplification of procedures in relation to the Visa will be important to attract these travelers, especially those from emerging markets such as China, Russia, India and Brazil.
The studies conducted by the OMT and World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) show that the economies of the Group of 20 (G20) could increase the number of international tourists in 122 million.
Also, could generate additional 206 billion dollars in terms of tourism exports and create five million new jobs if the procedures for issuance of Visa are improved and entry formalities are simplified.
The same study conducted for Forum countries Economic Cooperation Asia-Pacific (APEC) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) indicates that the streamlining of visa could generate the creation of 2.6 million new posts work in APEC and 650 thousand jobs in ASEAN.
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