Solo Traveller? These Top Destinations Are Attracting Indian Travellers

International destinations are a hit amongst Indian solo travellers. Are you a solo traveller? These 5 destinations should be in your travel list right away. From taking a break away from the usual routine to exploring new cultures, Indian solo travellers are choosing international destinations over the domestic ones while planning their travel.

According to Kayak, a travel search engine, has analysed travel searches and found that Bangkok, San Francisco, New York, Auckland and Toronto are the top destinations that are catching the eye of Indian solo travellers with significant year-on-year increase in search growth of  13%, 30%, 20%, 119% and 26% respectively. This trend can be prompted by a rising curiosity towards contemporary cuisines, learning new skills along with scouting for unique experiences in places outside India. Looking for similar interest?  This piece of information is your one-stop-destination.

Among the top searched destinations, Auckland has the highest year-on-year increase of 119% in flight searches, and with average trip duration of 15 days. The all-time favourite Southeast Asian city of Bangkok has seen a year-on-year growth of 13% with average trip duration of 6 days.

The most popular destinations in North America is San Francisco, Toronto and New York with 30%, 26% and 20% year-on-year increase in search volume respectively. These cities have a higher average trip duration ranging from 16 to 22 days as compared to Southeast Asian cities.

Auckland is a hit again amongst group travellers as well and has seen a 65% year-on-year increase which is the highest among all international destinations in the ranking. An interesting observation is the fares for international destinations have seen a year-on-year drop whereas the flight prices for domestic destinations have seen an increase or have been the same.

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Have you always enjoyed travelling on your own? This trend is picking up at great pace and attracting lot more Indian travelers to visit International destinations. All you have to do is pack your bags and get cracking.

To help travellers in making the best travel decisions to their favorite destinations with minimized stress, Kayak is helping as a beneficial tool. “With decreasing airfares, more accessible flights and a soaring interest in adventure and discovery, solo travelling is a rising trend amongst Indians. International travel has become affordable and accessible for Indians, prompting a large number to travel abroad on their own. We have seen some drastic increase in searches when it comes to destination such as Auckland and Toronto. Whereas for group travel we have seen an increase to destination where there has been a drop-in airfare,” told Abhijit Mishra, director of Kayak.