1. United kingdom
The british government has recently introduced a two-year multi-entry visa for chinese tourists to attract chinese tourists to the united kingdom. This policy will be implemented in january next year and is likely to evolve into a 10-year multi-entry visa。
Chinese tourists travel to the united kingdom, usually issued a six-month tourist visa at a cost of pound85. The newly introduced policy will provide for the issuance of two-year travel visas at the same cost, allowing visa holders to enter and leave the country without having to reapply. According to reuters, this visa policy adjustment attracted the chinese middle class to travel to the united kingdom by reducing the associated red tape and visa application costs。
France
In june this year, the french government set a target of increasing the number of visitors to france to 100 million by 2020. To that end, france has introduced a new system for granting visas to chinese within 48 hours since 2014. In future, the system will be extended to countries such as turkey, indonesia and singapore. It is also planned to begin processing the visa online in 2017. In addition, a number of support facilities and services, such as rice in hotel breakfasts and chinese broadcasting in malls, are being developed in an effort to create a more comfortable tourism environment. Over the next five years, the tourism industry is expected to generate 2 billion euros in additional economic benefits for france, with 30,000 new jobs being the largest。
Italy
Italy indicated in 2014 that it would reduce the time frame for granting visas to chinese to 36 hours, which would normally take five days。
4. Spain
Spain also reduced the length of visa issuance to 48 hours in principle。
5. South africa
The south african ministry of home affairs has issued a series of measures to streamline visa applications for foreign tourists and has committed itself to considering a visa exemption for chinese tourists within one year. It is understood that, in order to address the concerns of countries such as china, india and russia, the south african government will, within one year, consider granting visa waivers to tourists from india, china, russia and other countries; and that tourists with british, united states and canadian valid visas on their passports may apply for landing visas upon arrival in south africa。
Thailand
The ministry of foreign affairs of thailand announced that, as of 13 november this year, all foreign tourists would be granted a six-month round-trip tourist visa allowing them to enter and leave thailand several times within six months, but not more than 60 days per stay in thailand at a cost of 5,000 baht (approximately 900 yuan)。
7. Korea
The korean embassy in china recently announced that the visa exemption policy for visitors to china and four south-east asian groups would be extended until the end of december 2015. As a result of the extension of the visa waiver policy, effective 6 july 2015, group visitors will be exempted from the $15 visa fee per person. In addition, chinese group tourists holding japanese tourist visas will be allowed to enter korea without a group visa for up to 15 days。
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