{"id":660229,"date":"2026-04-27T12:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660229"},"modified":"2026-04-27T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:46:39","slug":"summer-travel-gets-dearer-on-conflict-weak-rupee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/summer-travel-gets-dearer-on-conflict-weak-rupee\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer travel gets dearer on conflict, weak rupee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: Summer vacations for Indians to exotic destinations have been disrupted as the West Asia conflict and a weakening rupee have pushed overseas tour package costs up by about 20%, offsetting the Centre&#8217;s cut in Tax Collected at Source (TCS) on such packages to 2% from 20% and 5%.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict has also led to a sharp drop in international trips between April and June, the peak summer travel season for Indian families. Rajiv Mehra, general secretary, Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism &amp; Hospitality (FAITH), said outbound travel has been badly hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: Summer vacations for Indians to exotic destinations have been disrupted as the West Asia conflict and a weakening rupee have pushed overseas tour package costs up by about 20%, offsetting the Centre&#8217;s cut in Tax Collected at Source (TCS) on such packages to 2% from 20% and 5%. The conflict has also led to a sharp drop in international trips between April and June, the peak summer travel season for Indian families. Rajiv Mehra, general secretary, Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism &amp; Hospitality (FAITH), said outbound travel has been badly hit.<\/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-660229","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\/660229","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=660229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660231,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660229\/revisions\/660231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}