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Bookings for long weekends were on the rise before the pandemic, but not all leisure hotels were sold out. However, after the two-year of hiatus, now long weekend phenomenon is enabling the market to skyrocket. Hoteliers discuss how most hotels are sold out on long weekend days. TT Bureau The …

Zubin Karkaria, Founder & CEO, VFS Global, suggests that one should always choose a space where they are a market leader, where their core competency lies and where they can add more value. Find your niche, he advises the travel trade! When the time came for Zubin Karkaria, Founder & …

Inspiring Vacations, making foray into the Indian market, focuses on agents by building quality relationship with business partners across the country through visits, email marketing and webinars. Janice Alyosius Inspiring Vacations offers enriching and affordable travel packages for small and large groups to the world’s most iconic destinations. These premium …

Giving a status check on the state of existing travel industry, as well as how UNIGLOBE Travel is the right model for the agencies today, Ritika Modi, Regional President, UNIGLOBE Travel, South Asia, says that travel is back with a bang, though corporate travel is not up to the mark. …

When it comes to medical tourism, sky is the limit for India. The industry, valued $6 billion in 2020, has all it takes to attract such tourists from across the world, and is predicted to reach $13 billion by 2026, says Rajeev Taneja, Founder and CEO of Global Care. TT …

Researches have shown that travellers’ behaviour has changed when compared to the pre-pandemic times. Their intent for 2022 demonstrate that they are now avoiding busy and over-visited destinations and looking for unusual and off-beat destinations. Not just that, they are willing to spend more for experiences. Janice Alyosius The pandemic …

Travel agents, getting sleepless nights due to visa delays, urge goverments to hasten visa processes and remove ambiguity over the issue through clear communication. In the current scenario, clients are forced to change their destination to the ones giving quick or on-arrival visas, they say. Are the Missions listening? Hazel …

As industry recovers, there is a huge surge in business travel market, FCM is investing in technology and working towards sustainability to ensure it is in line with market requirement, shares Gaurav Luthra, MD, FCM Travel Solutions India. Janice Alyosius FCM, a leading travel management company (TMC), has been in …

About 82 per cent of Indian travellers, the highest in the Asia Pacific region, have an appetite for sustainable travel and are willing to pay more if it means they can make more choices, reveals Booking.com’s inaugural APAC Travel Confidence Index. TT Bureau As various countries have opened their borders, …

Abhay Sinha, Director General, Service Export Promotion Council (SEPC), shares that SEIS will go a long way in helping the service sector exporters, including those in the travel, tourism and hospitality segments, as they will be able to claim benefits under the scheme, for which `2,061 crore has been provisioned. …