Business Class, Five-Star Back as Indians Splurge Post Covid
- Trip durations from India have increased too, EaseMyTrip says
- Shift to luxury travel will stay, online travel agent says
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Indians are holidaying lavishly now, spending more on five-star hotels and booking business-class seats as the country emerges from the coronavirus pandemic that restricted travel for two years, according to the South Asian nation’s second-biggest online travel agency.
“People are living their lives and splurging on travel,” Prashant Pitti, a co-founder of EaseMyTrip, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Monday. “It’s a shift which is happening for good, for long-term.”