Indians love festive travels and journeys of self-discovery: Study

Every season is a reason (to travel)

Festive seasons are mostly when people decide to go on a vacation. (Source: Thinkstock Images)

Travel in APAC is determined by a seasonality trend that emerges during each holiday period. While in India, Eid, Dussehra, Christmas, New Year, Good Friday and school holidays in June are when people hit the roads, in China, it is during the National Golden Week, Christmas New Year, Lunar New Year, Labour Day, Dragon Boat Festival, etc.

Quick-fix travel for the spontaneous soul: People have been impromptu and more adventurous with their travel decisions, Airbnb has analysed. Travellers make quick domestic bookings in APAC region, which shows there are more impulsive decisions to travel with shorter booking times as opposed to international bookings made.

Love for long distance

To take the road less travelled. (Source: Thinkstock Images)

While people have been spending more time and money on their international travel plans, the shorter domestic trips the travellers embark on, are less expensive and within a considerably lower price range.

Travelling with the clan

On most festive seasons, people travel with their families, (Source: Thinkstock Images)

Another key observation the company made was about the occasions when people travelled solo, or with friends or with family. In India, families travelled to domestic destinations the most on Christmas, Good Friday and school holidays.Couples made international trips mostly during Eid and Good Friday and most people travelled solo to international destinations.

In Australia, the seasons mostly determine people’s trips. During spring holidays, there are more bookings by couples than by families and friends, while Christmas and New Year sees more families planning trips.

Journeys of self-discovery: A culture of finding themselves through solo trips is increasingly becoming common among the Asian population. Be it backpacking, trekking or an impromptu trip, people are travelling solo more and more to find meaning and peace.

London, Paris, New York: People in the APAC region are increasingly taking a liking to the cosmopolitan cultures and the diversity seen in London, Paris and New York and hence, features among the top choices for international vacations, while the domestic destinations Indians usually head to are Goa, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pondicherry, Lonavala, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Chennai. People from Australia mostly head to Bali, Tokyo and Los Angeles in addition to London and Paris.