Published on : Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Booking.com asserts that it has experiencing 38 percent yearly growth in its global operations in FY2019. Around 20 percent of its revenue comes from alternative accommodations, and it accounted for 40 percent of all bookings in the last 12 months.
Pepijn Rivers, Senior Vice-President and Head of Accommodation at Booking.com, at the time of speaking to Indian media delegates in Amsterdam, stated that 2017-18 experienced a 68 percent rise in supply from India. As per him, the growth of disposable income among the Indian middle class is altering the attitude towards travel itself. Also, he disclosed the facets about Booking.com’s India experience in the last one year, which writes testimony to his observation. (The 20-year-old company has more than 80 employees in India across four offices.)
According to the findings of Booking.com, the most-visited cities by Indian travelers going abroad are Dubai, Bangkok, Singapore, London, and Kuala Lumpur. However, 58 percent of Indian travelers favor staycations (domestic travel/holiday experience with limited transit time), whereas globally it is 46 percent.
The best Indian cities visited by travelers in 2018 include New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, and Hyderabad, the data showed. As per Booking.com’s statistics, the highest numbers of travelers to India are from the countries like the UK, France, the US, Germany, and the UAE. It says New Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur, Chennai, and Bengaluru are the most popular cities in India among global travelers.
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