With Holi round the corner and coinciding with a long weekend the searches for flight and hotel bookings have surged compared to last year, according to data by a travel fare aggregator KAYAK.
"This year, the searches of flights for some domestic destinations has grown massively compared to last year," KAYAK Country Director-India Abhijit Mishra said.
The data is based on searches conducted from July 1, 2016 to March 9, 2017 for travel period of March 10-13, 2017.
"This year, the searches of flights for some domestic destinations has grown massively as compared to last year, in which Hyderabad is up by 148 per cent, Goa by 115 per cent, and Bengaluru by 90 per cent," Mishra said.
Interestingly, he said, Bangkok in Thailand has replaced Dubai as the top searched outbound destination for Holi.
Bangkok, Dubai and London remained the top searched international destinations by Indians.
On the domestic front, Goa, New Delhi and Mumbai were the top favourite searches.
"We are seeing the Holi weekend bookings to be more spontaneous as compared to the year 2016," he added.
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