{"id":565397,"date":"2023-03-24T12:55:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T07:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=565397"},"modified":"2023-03-24T12:55:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T07:25:16","slug":"revenge-travel-spurs-visa-application-volume-from-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/revenge-travel-spurs-visa-application-volume-from-kolkata\/","title":{"rendered":"Revenge travel spurs visa application volume from Kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The visa application volume from Kolkata has reached 85 per cent of the pre-pandemic level as travellers from here give vent to \u2018revenge travel\u2019 made easier by the re-opening up of borders and easing of COVID restrictions, according to a visa outsourcing firm.Prabuddha Sen, Chief Operating Officer (South Asia) of VFS Global, said the volume showed a 160 per cent rise in 2022 as compared to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>This is higher than the Indian average as a whole. On a pan-India average, the volume of visa applications reached 80 per cent of the pre-pandemic level and witnessed a 140 per cent rise in 2022 when compared to 2021, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The visa application volume from Kolkata has reached 85 per cent of the pre-pandemic level as travellers from here give vent to \u2018revenge travel\u2019 made easier by the re-opening up of borders and easing of COVID restrictions, according to a visa outsourcing firm.Prabuddha Sen, Chief Operating Officer (South Asia) of VFS Global, said the volume showed a 160 per cent rise in 2022 as compared to 2021. This is higher than the Indian average as a whole. On a pan-India average, the volume of visa applications reached 80 per cent of the pre-pandemic level and witnessed a 140 per cent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}