Meanwhile, the Malaysian visa waiver scheme is applied for visitors from 155 countries and territories, of which 85 have signed unilateral visa exemption agreements with Malaysia. The corresponding numbers of Singapore are 165 and 82.
In June this year, the Tourism Working Group of the Vietnam Business Forum also urged Vietnam to relax its visa procedures following a dip in tourism arrivals that followed the anti-China riots in May.
It proposed that “visa-exemptions [be] expanded to include countries [and territories] that can potentially account for significant tourism revenue, such as EU member states, the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Taiwan” to lure back tourists frightened by the riots.