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63% of travel searches by Indians made during work hours

20-07-2019
Mr.Ashok Sarawgi
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Work can be stressful. And to elude the stress at work, a large mass of Indian working class resorts to travel planning. A staggering 63% of the total travel searches are made during office hours that is usually recorded as 9 AM – 6 PM. A popular flight booking website by the name of KAYAK revealed this data based on the searches of economy flights on their website during the period; January 2017 – July 2018.

19% of the total travel searches are made during the lunch hours 1 PM – 3 PM. Delving deeper into the travel searches they found that the most searched location was Dubai. Dubai acquires an astonishing 94% share in yearly growth. Closely followed by Bangkok at 92%, Singapore at 80, Bali, Indonesia at 69% and Goa at 37%.

San Francisco was an unexpected location at 19%, Mumbai and Delhi at 12% each. London and New York at 2% respectively

The next time you see your colleagues slogging hard at work post lunch hours, don’t be fooled. It is highly likely that he is planning his next weekend getaway or his next long vacation. It is highly likely that you are smiling while reading this article as you have constituted a percentage to those travel searches being made at work.