Vietnam was the most searched place to visit this year by Indians, followed by India’s Goa and Indonesia’s Bali, according to Google's Year in Search 2023 report released this month.

The report, which featured this year’s top trending searches, showed that Thailand and Sri Lanka came in the fourth and fifth places.

Three other Indian destinations – Kashmir, Coorg, the Andaman and Nicobar islands, Italy, and Switzerland were in the top 10 searched destinations.

Skift, a news site covering news related to travel, tourism, airlines, and hospitality in India, said that Vietnam would likely be the next destination to offer visa-free entry to Indians, just after Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Data from the General Statistics Office of Vietnam indicated that the country served around 278,000 Indian visitors in the first nine months of the year, while Vietnamese carriers also launched direct services between Vietnam and India.

Vietnamese Minister of Culture, Sports, and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung, while addressing a tourism-related conference held last month, proposed that the government offer short-term visa exemption to Indian visitors to promote tourism.

Statistics from the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism, under the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, showed that Vietnam recorded 1.11 million international visitor arrivals in October, marking the fourth consecutive month that the country’s international visitor arrivals have exceeded the one-million mark.

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