{"id":88849,"date":"2019-02-20T17:31:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T12:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=977"},"modified":"2019-02-20T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T12:01:26","slug":"why-more-countries-are-welcoming-indian-visitors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-more-countries-are-welcoming-indian-visitors-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why more countries are welcoming Indian visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India has ranked 67 out of 199 countries in the\n2019 Passport Index. In 2015, India had ranked 77. 25 countries offer visa-free\nentry to Indians, 39 countries offer visa on arrival. Indian tourists still\nneed visas to enter 134 countries&nbsp;<\/li><li>Among SAARC nations, India only lags behind\nMaldives (Rank 51) in terms of passport power. The South Asian Association for\nRegional Cooperation (SAARC) is the regional intergovernmental organization and\ngeopolitical union of nations in South Asia. Its member states include\nAfghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri\nLanka<\/li><li>The Passport Index has been released by <strong>passportindex.org.\n<\/strong>The rankings are based on country\u2019s\nVisa-Free Scores and their ranking on the UNDP human development index.<\/li><li>The UAE\npassport has been ranked first, followed by Germany (No. 2), France and USA\n(No.3)<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has ranked 67 out of 199 countries in the 2019 Passport Index. In 2015, India had ranked 77. 25 countries offer visa-free entry to Indians, 39 countries offer visa on arrival. Indian tourists still need visas to enter 134 countries&nbsp; Among SAARC nations, India only lags behind Maldives (Rank 51) in terms of passport&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-more-countries-are-welcoming-indian-visitors-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why more countries are welcoming Indian visitors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[5638],"class_list":["post-88849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-passport-index","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704876516},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}