A study conducted by online travel portal Cleartrip.com reveals some fascinating insights about travelling habits of Trivandrumites.<\/p>\n
According to Cleartrip.com, Trivandrumites travel on impulse while, travellers in Kochi plan their travel in advance. 43%<\/strong> of its bookings from Trivandrum happen between 0 to 7 days from the date of travel. The proportion of these \u2018last-minute bookers\u2019 average close to the national sample of 47%. It means tourists from Trivandrum travel as much at the last minute, as the rest of the country. Trivandrum alone contribute to almost equal room nights (statistical unit of occupancy) as Kochi, Munnar, Alappuzha and Kovalam put together.<\/p>\n Trivandrum alone contribute to almost equal room nights as Kochi, Munnar, Alappuzha and Kovalam put together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Top international destinations from Trivandrum are Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, and Sharjah. As per the data collected over the last six months, Dubai tops the list with more than 31% people opting it as the international holiday destination.\u00a0 Dubai is followed by Abu Dhabi (about 16%), Doha (about 11%) and Sharjah (about 11%). Those making the top 10 list also include Muscat, Singapore, Colombo and Male.<\/p>\n Among the domestic destinations, Trivandrumites prefers Bangalore (almost 35%), followed by Chennai (about 17%) and Delhi (about 16%). During the weekends most of the city residents plan getaway trips to destinations less than 300km in distance. These include Kochi, Munnar and Kodaikanal, and some other emerging destinations like Trichy, Velankanni and Wayanad.<\/p>\n Trivandrumites travel on impulse while, travellers in Kochi plan their travel in advance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The data also shows that people of Trivandrum are tech savvy as there has been a significant rise in the use of mobile application of their site in Trivandrum. The hotel bookings made on Cleartrip.com mobile application from Trivandrum and air bookings have seen a 240% and 62% year-on-year growth respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A study conducted by online travel portal Cleartrip.com reveals some fascinating insights about travelling habits of Trivandrumites. According to Cleartrip.com, Trivandrumites travel on impulse while, travellers in Kochi plan their travel in advance. 43% of its bookings from Trivandrum happen between 0 to 7 days from the date of travel. The proportion of these \u2018last-minute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":24458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-25883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}