A comparability between 2022 and 2019 outbound journey reveals that journey quantity final 12 months reached pre-pandemic figures by greater than half (55 per cent).

The report revealed by IPK Worldwide  and revealed in ITB Berlin 2024, states that India’s outbound journey market exceeded these of China, South Korea and Japan in Asia. In 2019 India ranked fifth behind China, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. 

Notably in 2022, the outbound journey for the world was 90%. With round ten million overseas journeys, India is thus the main Asian supply marketplace for outbound journey, the report famous. 

In accordance with the report, India is the third hottest journey vacation spot in Asia. The first supply markets final 12 months had been the USA, UK and UAE.

The report additionally predicted that the eager curiosity of Indian vacationers to go overseas for journeys will proceed in 2023 as properly. 

The place did Indians journey to?

In accordance with the report, Dubai topped the chart, adopted by the USA, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Singapore.

In quantity, 70 per cent of travellers in India undertook journeys in Asia, which in contrast with the earlier 12 months’s figures elevated by greater than 250 per cent. Europe and America every accounted for round 15 per cent of journeys.

In 2022 Thailand, Abu Dhabi and Dubai had been India’s most popular journey locations, the report knowledgeable. 

Journey spending by Indian vacationers

The report famous that on a median, Indians spent 235 euros per individual and night time on overseas journeys. This lined all prices together with transport, lodging, catering and different spending like buying.

In 2022 the common length of a overseas journey was eight days, a slight enhance each compared with the earlier 12 months and earlier than the pandemic. Nearly all of journeys included greater than 4 overnights. Brief journeys, between one and three nights, made up 40 per cent of Indian outbound journey.

Varieties of journeys Indians took in 2022

The report famous that vacation journeys for outbound Indians registered an above-average year-on-year enhance at 64%. Enterprise journeys comprised a few quarter of overseas journey, whereas different outbound personal journeys made up round 10 per cent.

Additional, spherical journeys ranked first with a market share of round 30%, adopted by metropolis breaks at 26% and solar and seaside holidays at round 20%. In contrast with the earlier 12 months, spherical journeys and solar and seaside holidays benefited considerably from the expansion in India’s outbound journey market and had been in a position to enhance their market share.