MUMBAI: After leisure travel, business travel is expected to pick up in the coming months if the findings of a global survey by a travel technology provider are anything to go by. A total of 570 out of a thousand Indian respondents, i.e. 57% of travellers, said that they expect to fly out on a business trip later this year. Globally, the number was 50%.
“Asia is the top destination for both Indian business and leisure travellers (44% and 45%) with almost a third (29%) expecting to take two trips in the next year,” the survey said adding that 72% of Indian travellers said they are eager to travel next year.
Indian travellers (95%) were also willing to provide personal information and health data for the effective use of digital health passports. “Indian travellers are most comfortable providing digital health data for international travel (72%) compared to domestic travel (49%),” it added. Over half (53%) of Indian business travellers would be willing to share their digital health data to visit an office or business event/conference.
To track traveller sentiment, the survey, commissioned by Amadeus in early September, gathered responses from over 9,000 people who had travelled abroad in the past 18 months. These included travelers from France, Germany, Russia, Singapore, Spain, the UAE, the UK, the US and 1,000 respondents in India.
The biggest concern for Indian travellers was the risk of catching Covid-19 while travelling from lack of social distancing, mask wearing etc (54%), followed by self-isolation/quarantine before and after travel (42%) and concerns about increased queues while travelling due to additional document checks (33%).
MUMBAI: After leisure travel, business travel is expected to pick up in the coming months if the findings of a global survey by a travel technology provider are anything to go by. A total of 570 out of a thousand Indian respondents, i.e. 57% of travellers, said that they expect to fly out on a business trip later this year. Globally, the number was 50%. “Asia is the top destination for both Indian business and leisure travellers (44% and 45%) with almost a third (29%) expecting to take two trips in the next year,” the survey said adding that 72% of Indian travellers said they are eager to travel next year. Indian travellers (95%) were also willing to provide personal information and health data for the effective use of digital health passports. “Indian travellers are most comfortable providing digital health data for international travel (72%) compared to domestic travel (49%),” it added. Over half (53%) of Indian business travellers would be willing to share their digital health data to visit an office or business event/conference. To track traveller sentiment, the survey, commissioned by Amadeus in early September, gathered responses from over 9,000 people who had travelled abroad in the past 18 months. These included travelers from France, Germany, Russia, Singapore, Spain, the UAE, the UK, the US and 1,000 respondents in India. The biggest concern for Indian travellers was the risk of catching Covid-19 while travelling from lack of social distancing, mask wearing etc (54%), followed by self-isolation/quarantine before and after travel (42%) and concerns about increased queues while travelling due to additional document checks (33%).