{"id":446148,"date":"2021-10-29T11:07:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T05:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=446148"},"modified":"2021-10-29T11:54:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T06:24:51","slug":"airfares-hotel-tariffs-soar-as-travel-demand-zooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airfares-hotel-tariffs-soar-as-travel-demand-zooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Airfares, hotel tariffs soar as travel demand zooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: An unprecedented surge in travel demand this winter is pushing up air fares and hotel tariffs to record levels. With demand increasing month-on-month as more people become confident to travel, the travel trade industry expects the surge to persist beyond the conventional holiday season.<br \/>\nTour operator Thomas Cook India senior vice-president (leisure travel) Romil Pant said domestic travel in September 2021 was up four-fold against September 2019 and was growing at a frantic pace.<br \/>\n\u201cPrior to the pandemic, 85% of the business revenue was from outbound and the rest was from domestic travel. But with many international destinations, including popular ones like Thailand in South-East Asia still closed to Indian travellers, the revenue pie from domestic travel has increased to 40%. In terms of travellers, 60% are in the domestic sector. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: An unprecedented surge in travel demand this winter is pushing up air fares and hotel tariffs to record levels. With demand increasing month-on-month as more people become confident to travel, the travel trade industry expects the surge to persist beyond the conventional holiday season. Tour operator Thomas Cook India senior vice-president (leisure travel) Romil Pant said domestic travel in September 2021 was up four-fold against September 2019 and was growing at a frantic pace. \u201cPrior to the pandemic, 85% of the business revenue was from outbound and the rest was from domestic travel. But with many international destinations, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}