There’s a nip in the air and it has all the things to do with festive cheer! As most of you currently know, Indians really like extended festive weekends and strategy to loosen up with their households throughout the upcoming festive season. In a way, the festive season triggers optimism for Indian travellers. Flights are witnessing an uptick in bookings, hotels and homestays are seeing a revival ahead of the festive season. With the most recent travel trends, OYO’s Unlocking Travel Report 2021 highlights prime international travel trends and shares insights on some of the world’s most sought-just after leisure destinations.
A striking shift pertains to the truth that 57% Indian travellers choose to book closer to the date of travel, as opposed to ahead of when the whole travel practical experience was planned early and the bookings have been made weeks or months in advance.
Unlocking Travel Report 2021: Mysore, Darjeeling are common destinations
As per OYO’s zone-sensible booking information, Mysore tops the travel charts as the most common vacation location in the southern component of the nation. Darjeeling emerged as North East India’s most common location for leisure travellers. OYO’s customer survey indicates that 37% travellers choose to travel to the mountains, whereas 33% choose to loosen up in beach destinations and 14% love road trips or going to motorable locations, followed by heritage cities and pilgrimages.
As per OYO’s travel booking information, the existing trend appears to indicate a clear uptick in demand for hill stations, followed by heritage cities and beach destinations.
Unlocking Travel Report 2021: How Indians really like extended weekends!
Recently, the Janmashtami and Ganesh Chaturthi festivals paved the way for enjoying extended weekends, thereby reviving travel bookings, largely driven by Jaipur, Pondicherry, Ooty and Mysore. For the festive weekend of Dussehra and Guru Nanak Jayanti, OYO’s booking information shows that travellers choose going on holidays across India’s leisure destinations, with Jaipur topping the list and followed by the beaches of Goa.
In India, the report highlights that vaccinated employees and sanitisation protocols at properties are the prime two things that travellers take into account ahead of deciding their next travel location and spot of accommodation.
Unlocking Travel Report 2021: Europe shows indicators of travel self-confidence
OYO’s booking information from August to September 2021 shows that Europe is poised to soar with early indicators of travel self-confidence. The most booked location in Europe is the Baltic Sea Region in Germany, also referred to as the German Riviera, and is a common trip spot, followed by Denmark’s beach town of Blavand, North Holland in the Netherlands, followed by Luxembourg in Belgium and Salzburg in Austria.
Unlocking Travel Report 2021: Surge in searches for neighborhood tourist destinations in Malaysia
With lockdowns easing out in Southeast Asia, OYO’s report cites a notable jump in SME and critical travel across the small business cities spanning Jakarta, Bandung amongst other folks. OYO has observed a surge in searches for neighborhood tourist destinations in Malaysia such as Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. Given that the lockdown is nevertheless prevailing in Malaysia, the rise in travel-associated searches highlights that folks want to travel after the nation eases the lockdown and is open to vacationers.
No surprise then that OYO’s information on travel preferences spanning distinct geographies in the UK, the US, Asia and more especially in India show that the green shoots of revival in the travel and hospitality segment are considerable.