Title Title Title USE OF TRAVEL DOCUMENTS AND DATA IN STRENGTHENING BORDER SECURITY evisa in the ASEAN Region: Current Developments Alexander Rayner ExecuIve Chairman, evisa.travel
ASEAN AssociaIon of Southeast Asian NaIons One Vision, One Iden/ty, One Community
AssociaIon of Southeast Asian NaIons (ASEAN) 1. Brunei 2. Cambodia 3. Indonesia 4. Laos 5. Malaysia 6. Myanmar 7. Philippines 8. Singapore 9. Thailand 10. Vietnam Geo- poli/cal and economic organiza/on Formed 8 August 1967 Area: 4.46 million km2 GDP: $1.8 trillion Popula/on: 600 million (8.8% of world) Interna/onal Arrivals: 73 million (7.8% of world tourism) 2015: ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)
ASEAN: 73 million InternaIonal Visitor Arrivals 242 Airlines - 36,977 flights - 6,442,455 seats /week Source: PATA TIGA
Travel & Tourism Biggest economic ac/vity over 940 million internaional arrivals in 2010 spending USD 919 billion in 2010 over US$ 2.5 billion every day Largest sectors of employment worldwide more than 75 million jobs Fast entry into the workforce for youth and women in urban and rural communi/es Directly contributes to local economies through its fast trickle down and muliplier effect
Method of Travel Land 47% Air 46% Water 7% Source: UNWTO
Improving Safety and Security
TradiIonal Visa Costly and labor- intensive process Ø issued at embassies, consulates, upon arrival Difficult when peaks in passenger traffic Ø Special events like Olympic Games, FIFA Not Environment friendly
TradiIonal Visa Experience: Embassy Copyright 2011 www.evisa.travel - ICAO Regional Seminar on MRTDs, Biometrics and Border Security, 30 November 2 December, 2011 - Singapore
Send your Passport away! Without passport for how long?
Visa on Arrival
TradiIonal Visa Experience: ApplicaIon Form
Impact of Visa Systems 20% don t apply The way visas are processed Euro 500 million lost SOURCE: European Tour Operators Associa/on (ETOA)
USA
Thailand case: Beler visa service for Chinese Policy Extra Arrivals / Year Visa on Arrival Result 100,000 MulIple Entry Valid 3 years Proposed 1 million Source: Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT)
Trend TradiIonal electronic
Efficiency & ProducIvity egovernment Border management evisa
evisa Benefits ü Beler Security Real- Time Inter- operable ü Beler traveler FacilitaIon Reach beyond embassy & consulate Mul/ Language ü Green Security & Sustainable Paperless
Australia: 1 st evisa in 1996 Carrier Internet Travel Agent
Armenia
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Cambodia
United States of America
Sri Lanka Copyright www.eta.gov.lk 2011 www.evisa.travel - ICAO Regional Seminar on MRTDs, Biometrics and Border Security, 30 November 2 December, 2011 - Singapore
Arrivals to ASEAN: Intra & Extra t Title 30,000.0 25,000.0 20,000.0 15,000.0 10,000.0 5,000.0 - Brunei Darussalam Cambodia Indonesia Lao PDR Malaysia Myanmar The Philippines Singapore Thailand Viet Nam Intra- ASEAN Extra- ASEAN
2010 ATSP Completed 2011 January - Tourism June - Foreign Affairs
Linkage & CorrelaIon Tourism EU OSCE APEC Security FacilitaIon
ASEAN's TSP Strategic DirecIon 3 To Enhance and Accelerate Travel Facilita/on in the 10 member states Outputs: 1. Working towards a single visa for the region 2. Defining the case for and to advocate the implementaion of an evisa system 3. Explore innova/ve visa arrangements that facilitate travel (such as sub- regional visas)
evisa.travel Leading the shio from tradiional to electronic visa Driving the case for and to advocate the implementaion of an evisa system staring with ASEAN member states Public Private Partnership (PPP) TradiIonal electronic
evisa ICAO has MANDATE & AUTHORITY Chicago ConvenIon Annex 9 Document 9303, Part 2 DefiniIon? Standards? SpecificaIons?
Challenge: Balance Tourism Security FacilitaIon
VALUE ASEAN evisa PPP PARTNERS (proposed) STAKEHOLDERS Beler Security Improve FacilitaIon Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Lao PDR Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam ASEAN Governments Increase CompeIIveness ICAO ADB ESCAP IATA INTERPOL MTCO PATA OSCE United NaIons & OrganizaIons Finance MiIgate CorrupIon Intel Cisco 3M IBM Microsoo Oracle Samsung SITA Public Private Partnership EnIty Private Sector Suppliers
evisa: Roadmap Global Country MulI- Country Region - CLMV - Mekong - ASEAN
Cambodia: Already has evisa
CollaboraIon: CARICOM Special Visa CARICOM Single Domes/c Space: 1. An/gua and Barbuda 2. Barbados 3. Dominica 4. Grenada 5. Guyana 6. Jamaica 7. St. Kids and Nevis 8. Saint Lucia 9. St. Vincent and the Grenadines 10. Trinidad and Tobago Valid: 1 February - 15 May 2007
CLMV evisa One ApplicaIon, Four Countries Cambodia Electronic applicaion Laos Myanmar Vietnam
Mekong evisa One ApplicaIon, Six Countries Cambodia China Electronic applicaion Laos Myanmar Thailand Vietnam
ASEAN evisa One ApplicaIon, Ten Countries Airlines Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Internet Electronic applicaion Laos Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Travel Agents, Tour Operators Thailand Vietnam
evisa on Global Agenda World Economic Forum Davos in January 2012 G20 Mexico in 2012 APEC Russia in August 2012
evisa = Better Security Thank You! Alex@eVisa.travel