Alibaba, the world's largest retailer group, recently launched the 'Fliggy Online Visa Centre' in Beijing with the participation of the Sri Lankan Embassy in Beijing.
The programme was designed for Chinese nationals to expedite the process of applying visas to Sri Lanka and 10 other countries which have been designated as “electronic visa countries”.
The Alibaba Fliggy Online Visa system will make the process for applying visas easier and faster for the Chinese tourists. It provides the functions of OCR recognition speed filling, online self-photographing of visa photographs, progress tracking and other functions simplifying the traditionally lengthy and complicated visa processing procedures. Specially, it will result in a large scale impact on Sri Lanka's tourism positively.
According to Mr. Zhou Zheng, the Vice President of Fliggy, Chinese people’s tendency to go to the Belt and Road countries has been significantly enhanced in the past three years and the Belt and Road countries have become more attractive to young consumers. Accordingly the Fliggy Online Visa system will bring these Belt and Road countries closer to Chinese consumers as tourist destinations.
During the Q & A session of the event, information on the visa issuance procedure of Sri Lanka was explained to the Chinese Media.
Ambassador of Sri Lanka to China Dr. Karunasena Kodituwakku, Manager of Sri Lankan Airlines Mr. Raveendran, as well as Ambassadors of Belt and Road countries, entrepreneurs from China participated in the event.
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