Visa on arrival is a kind of visa which can be issued directly at the destination upon arrival. It allows a person to stay in a country for a certain period of time. Basic requirement for being granted a visa on arrival is having a passport with at least 6 months of validity, a two way airplane ticket and a certain amount of fee. For example, Indonesia offers visa on arrival program for 64 countries while India offers this program to eleven countries.
At the beginning of 2010, India instituted visa on arrival program for 11 following countries: New Zealand, Luxembourg, Finland, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam. In 2010, the combined arrivals from these countries rise 10.6 % with arrivals increasing from all but Myanmar. This program is estimated to have accounted for 3.7% of the combined growth in arrivals from these market in 2010.
