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SME Times News Bureau | 22 Apr, 2022
After two years of pandemic and resumption of international flights, tourism has finally picked up pace in Tamil Nadu.
Tour operators are receiving heavy booking requests with flights to the domestic and international destinations getting full.
Surjit
Das, of Akbar Travels of India, a leading tour operator while speaking
to IANS said: "Bookings are on the high for both domestic and
international destinations. People from Tamil Nadu prefer to travel to
Malaysia, Singapore, and the middle eastern countries. The rates to UAE
and Singapore, Malayasia are on the high now."
He, however, said
that most of the north Indian domestic destinations are packed and
bookings are mostly for Kulu, Manali, Srinagar, and Nainital other than
New Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, and Udaipur. He said that the flight charges to
these destinations have increased.
Abdul Wahab, of Kerala Tours
and Travels, while speaking to IANS said: "We are getting bookings to
European destinations and interestingly most of the bookings are after
May and the reason is the examination of both CBSE and ICSE boards are
taking place till May end. Another interesting fact is that more than
upper-middle-class, we are getting bookings from the lower-middle-class.
He
said that a package for seven days to Europe is costing around 2.15
lakh per person and almost all the bookings are for families inclusive
of a father, mother, and two children.
There are, however,
apprehensions among the tour and travel operators about the slight
increase in Covid cases in New Delhi and in other parts of the country.
While experts have said that the possibility of a fourth wave in the
country is remote, the tour operators said that even a slight spread
would bring doom to the industry that is slowly picking up.
Inbound
tours to Tamil Nadu are also on the high and most of the hotels in
Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, and Tiruchi were full for the past few
days due to tourist inflow from North Indian states and also from the
Tamil diaspora settled in Europe, the United States and in the Far
Eastern countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.
Shanmughandhan,
who runs the Tambaram taxi services and has a fleet of cars including
ordinary and luxury cars told IANS," The tourist season has picked up
and we are getting several bookings. Our cars were not plying for the
past two years due to the pandemic and the increase in tourists has
suddenly boosted our revenue. We have to make good the losses of the
past two years and must bring the company back on rails."
He also
however shared the apprehension about the Covid spread as New Delhi and
other areas of the country witnessed a slight increase in positive
cases over the past couple of days.
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