In a first, Israel could roll out e-visa programme for Indians by year-end; country aims to attract 70K tourists by 2025
Israel Ministry of Tourism, India, told ET. Currently, Israel doesn't offer e-visas to any country.
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Bangera said Israel is back to attracting tourists and is aiming to get 70,000 tourists from India by 2025, and one lakh tourists from India by 2026. Up until the end of September last year, Israel received about 41,800 Indian visitors in 2023. In 2019 Israel received 65,100 tourists from India.
“To attract more tourists and make it easier for them, we are planning to come up with an e visa programme. It’s still in a nascent stage, but by the end of the year, we should have a pilot running for e visas for Indians,” said Bangera.
“India is the first country we are doing e visas for, as Israel believes strongly in the potential of the Indian market. We see huge potential. Because we have so many outbound tourists from India, we would want to target them,” she added.
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Bangera said talks are also on with IndiGo and Air India to boost flight capacity and that the travel companies are also being reached out to for signing agreements for marketing and collaborations.
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“We are trying to do everything possible to ensure people that it is safe to travel to Israel. Even the airlines
