With a surge in Coronavirus situations, Indian travellers are turning cautious with their travel options. Prioritising security has come to be the require of the hour for travellers and staying at home is the safest solution. For travellers who turn COVID positive and want to self-quarantine themselves at an additional place, OYO has rolled out a handy function on its app to allow the similar.
In this regard, OYO has extended its help to India’s healthcare method that is beneath tremendous stress by rolling out a new function on its app whereby customers can now book their quarantine keep making use of the OYP app itself.
Under its ‘Stay Safe’ alliance, the corporation has tied up with regional authorities and quite a few hospitals to extend help to COVID-19 patients, necessary workers and the healthcare neighborhood.
In talks with more than 50 hospitals such as Lady Hardinge, Ambedkar, Ram Manohar Lohiya, Lok Nayak hospital to provide quarantine facilities, OYO is additional extending its facilities to provide home care firms to provide home-like facilities.
Simply place, anybody can book a quarantine facility by way of OYO app.
OYO’s newest COVID-19 initiative presents ‘Refuge to everyone’
Sharing his views on the efforts becoming taken to help India’s healthcare method, Rohit Kapoor, CEO, OYO INSEA highlighted that the corporation is turning handful of of its choose properties to function as quarantine and isolation facilities for COVID-19 positive patients. He termed OYO’s newest initiative as a ‘small but meaningful way’ to provide ‘refuge’ to every person who requires it now.
Indian travellers show preference for sustainable travel
Meanwhile, a notable insight from a current survey shared by a major digital travel platform Booking.com indicates that 68 per cent of Indian travellers want the funds they invest on travel to advantage the regional neighborhood.
Highlighting essential findings in its current analysis connected to travel trends ahead of Earth Day 2021, Booking.com shared its insights on how travellers are adapting to a more eco-conscious mindset when it comes to their travel options.
Around 98 per cent of Indian travellers indicated their preference to keep in an eco-accommodation at least after, Booking.com has shared. This additional increases to a whopping one hundred per cent for travellers from Vietnam, followed by travellers from Colombia (98%) and Thailand (98%).
Meanwhile, IHCL Hotels marked the occasion of Earth Day in April 2021 with a substantial milestone of getting 47 of its hotels attaining the EarthCheck Platinum Certification, thereby demonstrating 11 continuous years of making certain sustainable tourism management practices. Currently, a total of 78 IHCL hotels, which are EarthCheck certified, have generated substantial savings because the year 2008 by lowering water consumption, waste, greenhouse emissions amongst other folks.
Another notable facet is the IHCL Hotels endeavor to phase out single use plastics across its hotels and replacing all plastic water bottles with reusable glass bottles across 15 hotels.
With more hospitality brands embracing ‘green practices’, Indian travellers come to be empowered to make informed choices that market sustainable tourism and advantage regional communities.
Coronavirus second wave: Hotel occupancies impacted
With travel bookings turning cautious, hotel occupancies across diverse states have been impacted.
Ahead of Holi celebrations this year, TheSpuzz Online had spoken to Vana’s Executive Director Jaspreet Singh who shared insights on how Indian travellers are taking Ayurveda more seriously than ever just before.
Catering to serve the increasing demand for Indian wellness practices such as meditation, yoga and home made decoctions, the Dehradul based wellness retreat had incorporated Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan Healing) in its accurate type. With a minimalistic strategy, the retreat focused on advertising wellness.
However, the quantity of hotel booking cancellations are raising issues for the hospitality sector.
According to Vineet Verma, Executive Director & CEO, Brigade Hospitality, “With restrictions on international travel still continuing, the hotels have been trying to make do with a limited domestic audience. Occupancies had been inching up over the past few months but the lockdown in Karnataka and a few other states in light of the second wave, does not augur well for the hotels. We have been seeing a number of cancellations in room bookings as also in banquets.”
Even as the nation is set to witness a slump in terms of hotel bookings, it is for travellers to prioritize their security 1st and make certain that they double-mask, stick to all security protocols at all occasions and leave practically nothing to opportunity.