The overseas travel visa will be easier to handle – On May 8, IB and China International Travel Service Co., Ltd held a signing ceremony together, announcing that they will combine their resources, advantages and influence in providing more simple and safer individual agency visa delivery service for overseas travelers. From now on, mainland residents can apply for the service in any nearby IB outlet.
As a core service of “Universal Life”, IB’s comprehensive overseas financial service program, the agency visa delivery service provide overseas traveler with a series of services, including visa application consultation, agency visa delivery and agency visa fees collection. Consumers could apply for the service at any of IB’s 1,300+ business outlets across the country and enjoy one to one consultation service and visa application guidance.
Yu Ningning, the chairman and president of CITS head office, pointed out in his speech that, with the fast development of China’s economy and increased overseas travel experience of Chinese citizens, individual visa application will witness an explosive growth. The deep cooperation between CITS and IB is a new attempt for crossover cooperation between tourism and financial industry, and an important initiative to implement The Opinions of the State Council on Speeding up the Development of the Tourism Industry . The cooperation will surely bring a more simple, efficient and comfortable service to the vast overseas travelers.
IB is equally optimistic to overseas tourism financial market. Chen Jinguang, the vice president of IB, said that IB has laid out overseas financial service since 2013, and signed strategic cooperation agreement with CITS head office. It will take “Suixingyou” (Interest-guided Tour) individual travel loan business as an entry point to promote the integrated development of tourism and financial industry together with CITS. On March 18 this year, IB officially launched “Universal Life”, a comprehensive overseas financial service program. By cooperating with CITS head office again, they will give full play to their advantages, provide more options of destinations and quality agency visa delivery service, thus helping travelers to walk the “first step” for overseas travel.
At present, IB accepts agency delivery service application for individual tourism visa and business visa. The destinations include France, UK, New Zealand, Switzerland, Italy, USA, Canada, Australia, Netherland, Greece, Spain, Germany, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, UAE, Nepal, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, South Africa, Croatia and Taiwan (Taiwan Entry Permit). More visa types and countries will be added in the future.