Friday, May 18, 2018
The spiritual tourism is growing well in Indian states as more domestic tourists are going to the popular temples and the pilgrimage destinations such as Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and Puri in Odisha.
It is according to the new study revealed that, there has been a month-on-month growth in hotel bookings of 60 per cent for Puri, 48 per cent for Varanasi, 34 per cent for Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh and 19 per cent growth for Shirdi in Maharashtra.
The report also showed that Lucknow tops the list with about 13 per cent outbound train searches to these religious cities, followed by Mumbai with 7 per cent and Hyderabad with 6 per cent. Delhi ranked number four with 5 per cent train searches to these religious destinations.
Now, spiritual tourism is one of the biggest untapped markets for domestic travel as close to 60 per cent domestic tourism in India is religion-based.
In addition, new projects, circuits and train routes are being established to increase tourism at these pilgrimages.
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