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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
The online visa startup stands out for its on-time visa and refund guarantees, far from the standard industry practice. It might be enough to attract anxious travellers for now, but the real test lies in making money out of this model in the longer term.
Anyone who has ever applied for a visa would agree that it can be a long, complicated process, causing a lot of anxiety around if or when you’d receive the approval. Now, imagine someone comes to you and says, “If you apply through me, I will make sure that you get your visa by this date. If I miss the deadline, you don’t have to pay any service fee to me. And if your visa is rejected, I’ll refund the entire government fee as well.” Sounds too good to be true? Yes. But this is exactly what Atlys, an online …
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A tourist visa initiative, long in the making, is set for a year-end rollout. This could foster new levels of regional cooperation across the GCC.
