GCC to soon roll out unified tourist visa
Unified visa aims to facilitate travel for tourists and visitors between Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman
The Gulf Cooperation Council’s unified tourist visa is set to come into effect in the near future, according to GCC Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi.
Albudaiwi said the project has reached its final technical and regulatory stages, following coordination between passport authorities across the six GCC states.
Speaking at the “Security and History Dialogue” conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday, Albudaiwi said the unified visa represents an important step toward strengthening Gulf integration and facilitating the movement of visitors among GCC countries, according to Saudi newspaper Okaz.
He added that the visa would support the tourism sector and enhance the GCC states’ position as an integrated regional destination.
GCC interior ministers had approved the unified Gulf tourist visa project at a meeting in Muscat in November 2023, while the necessary technical and regulatory arrangements for implementing the project are still underway.
The unified visa aims to facilitate travel for tourists and visitors between Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman.
