[Reader-list] India tightens tourist visa rules

[Patrice Riemens]

> http://www.livemint.com/2009/12/23122936/India-tightens-tourist-visa-ru.html

I posted the following comment on LiveMint's website:

"The ministry has made no change to short-term visa rules". Actually I
understand that it did: re-entries within two months would not be allowed
either, meaning that a tourist can no longer come to India, then take a
trip to Nepal or Sri Lanka (what i used to call 'a holiday withint the
holiday') and then re-enter India again, f.i. because the tourists holds a
return air ticket to & from Delhi or Mumbai...
India had already far stricter visa rules than most other tourist
destination in Asia, most of which do not even demand a visa. This last
'securocratic' measure is not going to make things better for the Indian
tourism industry....