Documentation:
Documentation required for a Tour:
It shall be the sole responsibility of the Guest to hold valid travel documents and statutory clearances, to enable the Guest to travel on the tour such as passports, visas, confirmed air tickets, insurance and medical insurance certificates and other certificates including immigration clearance etc.
Passport
For travelling abroad, all guests including children must be in possession of a machine-readable passport valid for minimum of 180 days from their Tour return date along with applicable Visas. Please cross check all particulars of your passport including your name/ address/validity/expiry date and Blank pages for Visas as per requirement. All the guests booking tours for the European sector should ensure that the Passport validity is for a maximum of 10 years. Please ensure that the passports are well maintained and have sufficient blank pages that are serially numbered and not damaged, stapled or torn for recording stamping of visas of various countries. Handwritten passports are not allowed. If your Tour gets cancelled due to any passport related issues, you will be liable to pay cancellation charges.
For few tours Agwani travels collects your passport and submits to various private entities or consulates on your behalf. During this process if passport gets damaged, Agwani travels do not hold responsibility and is not liable to pay compensation/ refund/ claim as it does not have direct /indirect control on these authorities.
Visa (International tours)
A Visa is a mandatory document that permits the guest to enter another country. For tourists, generally a short term visa is granted by the respective consulate. All the guests be required to take the appropriate visas for going on the tour. We are visa facilitators and assist you for preparing Visa documents, submitting them & collecting the passports from the consulate. The Consulate may call you for a personal interview even after all relevant documents have been submitted. Agwani travels is not responsible for any kind of error caused by the consulate. The decision to issue Visa is at the sole discretion of the respective consulate and we do not have a hold on the decision of the consulate and cannot object to it either. You agree not to proceed legally against us for such rejection of visas, unless there is a manifest error on our part. We would not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for any clerical error done by the concerned embassy or consulate.
As stated, Agwani travels is just a facilitator for procuring visas. We will not be able to represent any visa issue, either pre or post submission of documents or after issuance of visa. We request you to cross-check the visas copies and intimate us about any discrepancies well in time. Full payment of the tour cost to be made to process Schengen visa. In case of part payment, Balance to be maintained in the Bank Account of guests must be equivalent to the total Tour Cost plus the unpaid amount of the tour.
Sometimes it may happen that the Visa granted for a specific country has a longer validity than passport, in such a case the guest has to carry both old as well as new passports. In case the guest has a valid visa on his old passport, he needs to check and verify whether he is required to transfer such old visa on the current passport.
If you already possess a visa or wish to do the visa (s) on your own, you would be entitled for appropriate reduction/ refund of actual visa (s) cost and the portion of charges attributable to our service charges will still have to be paid by you. It is your responsibility to promptly furnish all documents required for application of your visas well in advance to us as visa processing can take quite a long time because of the over-cautious approaches adopted by embassies and consulates due to security concerns.
Sometimes due to load factor at the embassies and consulates, the Visa processing takes longer time and in few cases Visa is not granted before tour departure or it is delayed. Also, visa processing of the guests working at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) or in Chemical Industries or serving in Armed Forces may take longer time than usual. In such cases Veena World, as a facilitator, shall not be responsible for any consequences and/or liable for any refund, the guest shall have to bear all the cancellation and re-booking charges for the next tour.
Documents required for application of Visa vary country wise. Our Travel Adviser shares a complete list of Documents with the guest on their registered e-mail ID at the time of booking itself.
Photo Identification
All guests are advised to carry the photo identification in the form of driving license, election ID card, PAN card and students must carry with them their school / college ID card. At certain sightseeing places, the Identification proof is mandatorily required and company has no control over it. The identification documents must be produced by the guests as per the rules and regulations prescribed at different locations. Also, please ensure that on tour you carry the same photo ID submitted in the office. In case of documents being in maiden name, provide & carry those documents.
Travel Insurance
All the guests must purchase comprehensive Travel Insurance from Agwani travels to cover the likes of cancellation, personal injury and medical expenses, death, repatriation expenses, evacuation expenses, etc. Certain countries have a requirement for foreign visitors to have valid medical insurance on entry. Please note that all guests must carry a copy of insurance along with them on Tour and present such copy to the authorities when asked for. We cannot be held if a guest is denied entry in a certain country because of absence of copy of such insurance.
Insurance is included in the tour price for all international tours upto the age of 59 years. For the age group over and above 59 years, Insurance is available at an additional price by the respective guest.
Pre – existing diseases are not covered under insurance policy. If you decide to extend the Tour for longer than the existing schedule then additional charges will be levied. Adventure sports or activities that are included in your Tour Packages shall not be covered in the insurance policy and in case of any death, injury or other loss due to your participation in such adventure sports will not be borne by Agwani travels and the release form submitted to such Service Provider/ person/ club/ association / organization / hobbyist / institution by you with your consent shall become effective and binding.
Please take note that, in case in case of death of any guest all the arrangements for transportation of the dead body including procurement of the death certificate, post – mortem, repatriation of dead body and all personal effects, insurance claims, entire expense for making such arrangement etc. shall be made by the guest accompanying the deceased or known acquaintances of the deceased. Agwani travels or its tour managers shall not be responsible for extending any help for the same.
Please note that you would have a direct contractual relation with the insurance Company and we are not in any manner directly involved with this relationship. The insurance company shall be solely responsible for granting or rejecting claims. It is at a sole discretion of the respective company and you shall settle any dispute arising about rejection of claim or adequacy of settlement amount directly with the Insurance Company. In case of foreign nationals, insurance will have to be obtained by the individuals on their own.
In an exceptional case if a third party issues insurance, and any claims to the same arise, Agwani travels is not responsible for any coordination with the Insurance Company.
Documents required for foreign nationals
For all foreign nationals who wish to join our various tours (Domestic/ International) the Visa fee and the other required documents differ than the Indian nationals. Kindly cross check with our sales team. All guest must declare their NRI status prior to their booking. For NRI’s the rules and regulations at certain sightseeing places differs from Indian nationals, accordingly NRI’s and Foreign Nationals need to borne additional charges wherever applicable.
Please note that entry to any country may be refused even if the required information and travel documents are incomplete.
Communication
All the information related to the Tour is disseminated via SMS (Short messaging services) and e-mails to the guests. The time to deliver the SMS is dependent on several factors such as upon the traffic on the mobile network and whether the guest’s mobile phone is within reach and switched on. Agwani travels is not a mobile network operator and does not guarantee the delivery of SMS text messages.
The guests confirm that they have provided an accurate mobile number for receiving SMS and that they are the owners or the legitimate users of the mobile device or phone. The guests also acknowledge that using another person’s mobile phone or providing inaccurate mobile phone number or the unauthorized use of mobile phone number for receiving the SMS, may entail disclosure of guest’s confidential information which disclosure shall be at the sole risk of the guest.
Immigration
Holding a valid visa only allows a guest to enter the respective country’s immigration point. Granting or rejecting the permission to enter a particular country is solely upon the discretion of the immigration authority. Sometimes a guest may be deported/ interrogated/ and may be held back by the immigration authorities for a longer span than the usual time. In such a case, the guest missing out on the itinerary program is not Agwani travels liability. All the Expenses incurred by guests while they are held back by the immigration authorities or deportation costs would be borne by the guest and Agwani travels shall not be responsible for any reversals towards the same. In any such cases of deportation/ interrogation/ rejection of permission to enter a particular country by the immigration authorities, the guest is not eligible for any refunds and compensations from Agwani travels.