{"id":4583,"date":"2004-09-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/25\/2004-09-25-mauritius-ends-visa-requirement-for-indian-citizens\/"},"modified":"2004-09-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-25T12:00:00","slug":"2004-09-25-mauritius-ends-visa-requirement-for-indian-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/25\/2004-09-25-mauritius-ends-visa-requirement-for-indian-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius Ends Visa Requirement for Indian Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/full_story.php?content_id=55735 \">Source<\/a><\/P><P>KOLKATA, INDIA, September 23, 2004: Mauritius has scrapped the visa system for Indian tourists from next month to give a fillip to tourism. &#8220;We have taken this very important decision to abolish the visa system for all bona fide Indian nationals willing to visit Mauritius, and this law will be effective from October,&#8221; Mauritius Tourism and Leisure Minister Anil K. Gayan told reporters here on Wednesday. Gayan, who was here to inaugurate the Mauritian Food Festival, said his country held India &#8220;in high esteem.&#8221; &#8220;Abolishing visas for Indian tourists, will go a long way not only in further promoting tourism but also strengthening bilateral ties with New Delhi,&#8221; the Minister said, adding that tourism fetches most revenue for the island country. <BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nAcknowledging Indian assistance to Mauritius in its development process, Gayan said: &#8220;We are grateful to India for what it has done to us.&#8221; The Minister said the Mauritius Government was keen to further promote relations with India, adding &#8220;our cordial ties with New Delhi will remain unchanged even with the change of government.&#8221; Meanwhile, Gayan met West Bengal Tourism Minister Dinesh Dakua in Writers&#8217; Buildings on Thursday and informed him that his government wanted a direct flight from Kolkata as Bengal and Mauritius had historical links.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceKOLKATA, INDIA, September 23, 2004: Mauritius has scrapped the visa system for Indian tourists from next month to give a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}