{"id":2402,"date":"2021-10-13T20:13:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2021-10-13T20:14:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:14:01","slug":"thomas-cook-india-data-indicates-strong-travel-demand-from-pune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/?p=2402","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Cook India data indicates strong travel demand from Pune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pune ( P&V News service) :Pune features as a top source market for Thomas Cook India, India\u2019s leading integrated travel services company. Lockdown fatigue and pent-up demand is resulting in strong travel desire from Punekars \u2013 Thomas Cook India has been witnessing a robust 70% month-on-month increase since re-opening in June 2021. A surge in demand for the upcoming Festive & Winter Season, Expo 2020 Dubai and honeymoon travel is powering travel growth from Pune. Thomas Cook India reports that the demand is back to 55% of pre-pandemic levels overall: domestic travel at an impressive 300%; international at 50% (acquisition data Sept 2021 vs Sept 2019). Maldives, Switzerland, France, Russia, Turkey and Egypt are the top destinations, while Expo 2020 Dubai is seeing a brisk demand currently. Additionally, Pune is also witnessing a strong demand for overseas education travel and Thomas Cook India has delivered well on student travel to USA and Canada with quarantine packages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Cook India\u2019s extensive network covers 4 owned\/franchise outlets in Pune (Bhandarkar Road, Pune Camp, Viman Nagar and Aundh) and a total of 25 outlets across Maharashtra, including Mumbai and key Tier 2-3 cities like Pune, Nashik, Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Nagpur and Ahmednagar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information was given by Mr. Rajeev Kale, President & Country Head \u2013 Holidays, MICE, Visa, Thomas Cook (India) Limited in the press conference. Meenal Hate – West India Sales Head, Manish Kabre – Quality Control Manager, Shreyas Khapre – Sales Head Rest of Maharashtra, Imran Chauhaan – Europe Tour Manager and Miling Gaikwad- Europe Tour Manager were present at the press conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pune Travel Trends:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Cook India\u2019s survey has revealed insightful consumer behaviours & travel trends for Pune<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strong Travel Demand: over 77% respondents from Pune are keen to travel in 2021 itself<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domestic-International Mix & Preferred Destinations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 62% prefer international destinations; favourites include Maldives, Dubai, Switzerland, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 78% prefer Domestic holidays; Kashmir, Leh-Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand; with North East, Rajasthan and Andamans now seeing strong demand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special Offers for the Festive Season: Thomas Cook India has announced attractive deals like Buy One Get One \u2013 Companion Free across select India & International holidays; an Early Bird offer of Rs 60,000 per family on select Europe Tours; Taj Vouchers valued at Rs 10,000 on India Extravaganza holidays \u2013 an aprox. 10 day extensive itinerary for in-depth exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr. Rajeev Kale, President & Country Head \u2013 Holidays, MICE, Visa, Thomas Cook (India) Limited said, \u201cPune continues to be one of our best performing markets and contributes significantly to our Holidays business \u2013international and domestic. This year we have seen high demand for travel within India, Punekars preferring outdoor adventure and mountain locations like Himachal Pradesh, Leh-Ladakh, Uttarakhand and North East; our bike trips are doing exceptionally well. While Maldives has been Pune\u2019s top destination, we are seeing a strong surge for Europe, Turkey and Expo 2020 Dubai across families and business\/trade associations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am excited to announce our special offers and discounts on our Festive Holidays for Navratri and Dussehra. This is my personal invitation to Punekars to come and visit our branches and plan a truly memorable holiday with family and friends for the festive and winter season ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added, \u201cAll our packages\/ trips are equipped with TravShield – comprehensive Safety Commitment & Assured Safe Travel Program in association with Apollo Clinics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Vaccinated Travel Advisors & Contactless Bookings \u2022 Free Re-scheduling & Cancellation \u2022 Covid Insurance Cover with 24\/7 Doctor on Call \u2022 Vaccinated \/ Covid negative fellow travellers \u2022 Covid negative \/ Vaccinated Drivers, Hotel Staff \u2022 Sanitized Rooms & Vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pune ( P&V News service) :Pune features as a top source market for Thomas Cook India, India\u2019s leading integrated travel services company. Lockdown fatigue and pent-up demand is resulting in strong travel desire from Punekars \u2013 Thomas Cook India has been witnessing a robust 70% month-on-month increase since re-opening in June 2021. A surge in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,24,55,44,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-international","category-national","category-pune","category-bs-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}