Even as the summer vacations draw to a close, travel agencies are already planning to offer innovative plans for the autumn and winter breaks. Business Standard quoted tour operators as saying that they were anticipating low-cost carrier Indigo to launch international flights connecting Delhi and Mumbai to Thailand, Singapore and Dubai in September.”The Indian customer is evolving and is looking at novel experiences such as soft adventures, safaris and eco-tourism, self-drive itineraries, spa breaks and in-depth and longer stays at single destinations”, said Madhav Pai, chief operating officer, (leisure travel-outbound), Thomas Cook India. The paper said Yatra.com was targeting a 50 per cent growth in demand for the holiday season starting October. MakeMyTrip plans to promote Phuket, Bali, Mauritius and Maldives as special winter destinations, Andaman, Kashmir, Goa, the Northeast and Kerala would be promoted as domestic destinations. Thomas Cook plans to promote Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Kenya as international attractions and the Golden Triangle (Delhi, Agra and Jaipur) and Rajasthan as domestic ones.Besides the interesting destinations, companies are also planning innovative ways to tap the growing demand, the report said. Yatra.com plans to come up with the concept of ‘fly and stay’ for destinations like Goa. During the summer, MakeMyTrip introduced chartered flights to Phuket and Bhutan. “Both have done exceptionally well. Last year, a similar experiment with Maldives was also a success. If more flight capacity is added, Indians would lap it up,” Keyur Joshi, chief operating officer, MakeMyTrip, was quoted saying.Easygo1.com is betting on exotic names for their outbound packages like Hong Kong Hungama, Dazzling Dubai and Magic Maldives. Cox and Kings came out with the concept of ‘instant holidays’. Explaining the concept, Karan Anand, head (relationships), Cox and Kings, said, “We identified destinations that Indians frequent and customised an all-inclusive package that comprised airfare, hotels and sightseeing.” In the international market the destinations we promoted were Thailand, Singapore, Dubai and Hong Kong, while in India, the destinations were Goa, Manali, Coorg and Corbett.Outbound travel growth is set to grow as low-cost carriers offer international flights. “There is already a surge in the bookings of IndiGo international flight for September and October. We are planning to come up with holiday offers exclusively for these destinations, which are connected by low-cost carriers,” said Pratik Mazumder, head (marketing and strategic alliance), Yatra.com.On low-cost airlines, Thomas Cook’s Pai was quoted saying, “The attractive price points would allow us to create all-inclusive tour packages for the price-sensitive volume markets”.
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