KOLKATA: After a busy summer time trip, vacationers from Kolkata are planning Durga Puja travels properly upfront vying for tried and examined south-east Asian international locations in addition to a set of recent locations which have emerged over the past couple of years, publish Covid.
Whereas locations like Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand are topping the choice charts, there have been good queries for journey to new locations like Ras Al Khaimah in UAE, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Japan.
“Put up Covid, metropolis travellers have made numerous adjustments of their journey habits. Journey has develop into a necessity to many fairly than simply an choice. They now plan and likewise search for new locations together with in style vacationer locations. We’re already receiving a very good variety of queries and majority of them are getting transformed into bookings as properly and plenty of of them are open to new experiences and new adventures,” mentioned Anil Punjabi, chairman (east) Journey Brokers’ Federation of India.
A senior official of Singapore tourism board mentioned India has emerged because the fourth largest supply marketplace for Singapore with greater than 1.9 lakh vacationers visiting the nation within the first quarter of 2023 regardless of a pre-departure Covid check rule in place until the primary week of February. A big share of it goes to vacationers from prime metro cities like Kolkata alongside Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai.
“Kolkata is an important supply market and it’s rising on a regular basis. Singapore has at all times been a most popular household vacation spot. Whereas cruises are extraordinarily in style amongst vacationers, over time, there was a rising development to go for wellness tourism and nature trails amongst travellers from India,” mentioned GB Srithar, regional director, India, Singapore Tourism Board (STB) on the sidelines of Wellness Pageant Singapore 2023.
Explaining the queries for brand new locations, Manav Soni of Journey Brokers Affiliation of India mentioned that their brokers had been being flooded with queries for Japan, France, Italy and a lot of new locations within the Center-East and western a part of Europe.
“Many of the queries are for Vietnam however amongst unique locations, France and Japan are main the race,” mentioned Soni.
Metropolis-based businessman Harsh Agarwal, who’s planning a visit to Japan along with his spouse and two youngsters, mentioned he has travelled the world and has been to nearly all main vacationer locations and in his quest to discover the unexplored, he’s now planning locations that are much less travelled.
“Covid has modified numerous issues and considered one of them is the mindset of younger travellers like us who don’t like to return to previous locations,” mentioned Agarwal (36), a resident of Tollygunge.

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