While domestic tourism is helping a few hotels, people like government-recognized tourist guides, tourist transport operators, tourist taxi drivers, and small tour operators and vendors are starving. Thousands of travel agents and tour operators have already gone bankrupt. Like all other countries in the world, they did not receive any financial support or bailout package.

The only hope for survival is starting of vize e-turistice and scheduled international flights.

There are over 350 million vaccinated people, and they should be allowed to travel internationally. The whole world is opening up for people who have received both the vaccination or have tested negative. Some of the countries who are already allowing scheduled international flights are: Switzerland, UK, Russia, Turkey, Sweden, Maldives, Mauritius, Armenia, Ukraine, Ethiopia, South Africa, Egypt, Serbia, Kenya, Uzbekistan, Dubai, Pattaya (Thailand), Montenegro, Zambia, and Rwanda.

COVID is going to stay, and we have to learn to live with it. Just like Africa allows people with yellow fever vaccine to travel, similarly, we should allow fully-vaccinated international tourists to travel to India and Indians to travel abroad to the countries which are open to Indians via scheduled flights. The sooner we do this, the sooner it will help our economy revive.

This will not only help to save millions of jobs but also enable India to further boost its exports and become a global leader which is a dream of our Prime Minister.

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