If you are looking for a place to travel visa-free, then after Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Thailand, there is one more country.?A number of Asian nations have recently declared that they will be allowing visitors from India and other countries to enter without a visa, just in time for the Christmas break.?
Here is a place where you can go during the holiday season if you are still organising your travel schedule.?
During a speech at a People's Justice Party congress late on Sunday, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim made the announcement.?He did not specify the duration of the?visa?exemption, though.
Malaysia has joined the list as the fourth nation to declare visa-free travel.?Beginning on December 1, Malaysia will no longer require entry visas for visitors who are citizens of China and India, according to a report from Bloomberg that quoted Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.?
Citizens of China and India are allowed to stay without a visa for up to 30 days.?Malaysia's fourth and fifth-largest source markets are China and India, respectively.?
9.16 million tourists arrived in Malaysia between January and June of this year, with 498,540 coming from China and 283,885 from India, according to?government?data.?In contrast, during the same period of 2019, before the pandemic, there were 1.5 million arrivals from China and 354,486 from India.?
The action comes after Thailand, a neighbour, enacted comparable policies to strengthen its vital tourism industry and revitalise its flagging economy; this year, Chinese and Indian nationals were excluded from the measures.
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