Adani Enterprises is planning to list its airport business — Adani Airport Holdings — by fiscal 2028, according to media reports that quoted Jugeshinder Singh, the group’s chief financial officer.
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Taiwan has announced that it is “actively considering” extending visa-on-arrival for Indian travelers, deputy foreign minister Tien Chung-kwang said this week.
Chung-kwang cited the outbound power of Indians which led the government to seriously consider easing the visa procedure. However, he said this would first need to be discussed with the immigration department.
Indian travelers currently need to apply for a visa through the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in India and can take anywhere between 2-10 working days.
Taiwan is looking at India as a key target market, especially the corporate incentive market, to reach its target of 10 million annual tourists, Trust Lin, deputy director-general of Taiwan Tourism Administration, told Taiwanese media on Wednesday.
A recent report by consulting firm McKinsey and Company positioned India as a fast-growing source of outbound tourism. Indian travelers have a higher spending power. In 2023, they reached a new peak in overseas spending, shelling out $31.7 billion, of which 54% was on international travel: $17 billion.
However, the absence of direct flights between Taiwan and India is a major challenge, according to Lin. Direct flights between India and Taiwan were suspended during Covid, but have yet to be relaunched. This has led to a lack of convenient travel options between the two countries, he said.
Last year, Taiwan representative to India Baushuan Ger told Indian media that the country is aiming to welcome more than 100,000 Indian tourists annually, even as its first focus is to reach pre-pandemic tourist arrival numbers in the Indian market.
In 2019, 40,000 Indian travelers had visited the country. Last year, the tourist arrivals from India to Taiwan stood at 32,000. The country anticipates full recovery of Indian tourist levels to pre-pandemic figures this year.
In order to boost tourism from India, Taiwan Tourism Administration opened the Taiwan Tourism Information Centre in Mumbai earlier this year. This marked the country’s entry into India post the pandemic-induced break.
The tourism administration’s Singapore office also appointed a representative to drive its growth plan for the India market. Its growth plans focus on the Indian Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) market, weddings, and leisure travelers.
ResearchAndMarkets.com forecasts that India’s outbound MICE tourism market will reach $13.4 billion by 2031.
India is the ninth-largest market globally for business travel expenditure and the fourth-largest in the Asia Pacific region. According to managing director of FCM Travel India, Sunny Sodhi, 86% of business travelers in India consider travel necessary for meeting their business goals.
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Adani Enterprises is planning to list its airport business — Adani Airport Holdings — by fiscal 2028, according to media reports that quoted Jugeshinder Singh, the group’s chief financial officer.
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