The biggest shopping celebration in the Middle Asian country, Store Qatar, has been able to attract more local and international visitors due to the latest visa facilitation procedures that have been implemented by the authorities.
25, 000 vouchers were authorized in only the first days of the festival, compared to twenty-one, 000 in 2017.
The Store Qatar celebration started in January 7 and it will end on Feb 7. This is actually the second release, under the motto A Brand New Custom. While the first week of the festival (7″13 January) themed as ‘Arabian week’, the second week will be inspired as the Bollywwod week, which will number many entertainment shows and activities by artists from India.
According to Qatar Travel and leisure Authority the brand new measures have experienced a great effect on the go up of guests.
On August 2017, authorities in Doha got announced new visa facilitation measures, allowing for citizens of 80 countries to enter Qatar visa-free. Individuals of those countries wishing to go to and experience Qatar do not longer needed to apply or perhaps pay for australian visa. Instead, starting from then on, they have received a multi-entry waiver free-of-charge at the dock of access, upon business presentation of a valid passport which has a minimum quality of 6 months and a confirmed forward or come back ticket.
On the other hand about September 2016, Qatar’s Ministry of the In house announced the issuance of totally free transit kompakti?kas. Travelers who have are in transit through Hamad Airport terminal, regardless of nationality, do not demand a visa in the event they leave within 96 hours. They will apply for their free transportation visa through any of Qatar Airways’ office buildings or on the web, and once accepted, it is valid for a length of 90 days from your date of issuance.
Both procedures seem to include attracted a lot of visitors not only to get the Store Qatar festivity, but through the whole year. Only inside the period between January and November in 2017, 34% more tourists have stopped at Qatar compared to the same period in 2016. Restaurants declare that ever since the measures started out implementing, 20% of their consumers have been foreign people.
The peninsular Arab country has become trying a whole lot in terms of tourism development in the past years, inspite of the blockade enforced by 3 of their neighboring countries. Only in 2018, Qatar Tourism Authority is intending to organize 130 business incidents, 28 which are already organized to take place till April 2018.