Mumbai: Log on, compare, book. Until recently, Sarina T., who works with a consulting agency in south Mumbai and travels by air at least thrice a month, routinely checked off these items on her travel booking to-do list to ensure she got the best deals on airfares.
However, while researching best fares for a flight last week, she realized she could do even more to cut her travel expenses than just scout websites—avail of cashback offers.
Apart from wedding tours, SOTC is also looking to increase its presence in the area of golf tours. Study tours, for executives and students, is another area in which travel firms are looking to expand their presence. “There are several study tours planned to Switzerland, France and Singapore. Recently, we took a group from (the) construction industry from India to Dubai,” says Srinivas. Mumbai Hotels booking services available.
While these special-interest tours are catching on with customers, so-called community-based tours continue to be popular. These are tours where most members of the party are from a particular community and share dietary habits. For instance, SOTC recently launched a world tour aimed at Gujaratis in India. The tour comes with Indian vegetarian meals and a Gujarati-speaking tour manager.
Celebrities and politicians get to travel with advisers on hand, so why not the rest of us? This year, some 300,000 travellers are expected to use an SMS-based "concierge" service launched by Australian company Loop9. Hotels in Mumbai are very hospitable.
The Travel Messenger service, unveiled last year, alerts travellers to everything from political demonstrations to changes in flight details via text message to your mobile.
