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Holidayers set cash registers ringing
Places such as Sri Lanka, Maldives, Mauritius, Malaysia, Singapore and even Kenya expect to rule the holiday waves this year.
Places such as Sri Lanka, Maldives, Mauritius, Malaysia, Singapore and even Kenya expect to rule the holiday waves this year.
After last year's catastrophic tsunami, many travel pundits thought holidayers would keep off the beaches.
But, according to an international tour operator in Bangalore, it is not just young couples and honeymooners, families are also going beach-hopping.
Jet-setting Indian: One travel promotional agency believes the number of Indians jetting to foreign locales will touch 6.5 million by the year-end.
And where are they going? If tourism officials in Kenya, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Mauritius are to be believed, Indians are headed their way.
Sri Lanka Tourism destination manager Maadhuri Verma expects Indian arrivals between mid-December '05 to January '06 to surge 17 per cent.
Till September '05, Sri Lanka received 82,434 Indians, she said. Bollywood appeal: Mauritius, on the other hand, thinks its coverage in Indian films will do the trick.
Destination manager, Mauritius Tourism, Ritul Malhotra, expects an 18 per cent rise in Indian tourists. He said between January and September 2005, 22,664 Indians visited Mauritius.
Films for Mauritius, but discounts for Malaysia. Malayasian tourism officials believe that the country's fabulous shopping destinations will reel in the retail-happy Indian.
Malhotra added that between January and September this year, 1.67 lakh Indians visited Malaysia.
Being different: But where can a shopping-and-partyweary-traveller go? Kenyan tourism officials hope its game reserves will be the next choice.
Regional manager Fred Okoyo, emerging markets, Kenya Tourist Board, said Indians could sway to drumbeats to usher in 2006. He added that in the January-September '05 period, Kenya received 24,220 Indians.
From seasides to shopping and beaches to big game reserves, the Indian traveller has a wide spread on his platter.
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