Amid Omicron risk, 58% Indians plan to travel in the next 3 months, finds survey

This holiday season, despite Omicron surges experienced worldwide with over 350 cases of the variant recorded in India, Indians are not holding back from making the most of their holidays and travelling is back on the plans.

58% citizens planning to travel, 18% have made their bookings When Local Circles, a surveying agency based in Noida, asked 19,500 people about their current plan to travel in the next three months, 58 percent responded in the affirmative, but only 18 percent of them claimed to have finalised their bookings. Meanwhile, 22 percent of the respondents said they have plans to travel during these three months but have not booked tickets and stay yet and will only decide close to travel date.

Enthusiasm for travelling now is greater than before second Covid wave "As the country was entering into the second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak, a similar exercise was conducted by LocalCircles in March 2021 to understand the travel plan of citizens and had found out that only 50 percent of citizens back then had plans to travel," stated the agency. The number currently stands at 58 percent.

Most travellers are likely to visit family and friends During the winter holiday season from December to March, 29 percent of the respondents claimed they plan to head back home to visit family and friends, claim LocalCicles, while 21 percent have plans to travel to a holiday destination.