Solo travel trend increases among women in India. Around 65% of them like travelling alone while 35% males like the newer trend.
According to a recent survey by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, there has been a gradual increase of women travelling alone, taking up the graph to 65%. While only 35% of men prefer to travel solo. Women have obviously surpassed the male kind, and their parents are supporting them in their endeavours too.
65 percent women solo trippers
According to Google Trends, more than 2 million women searched websites and searched for tips for solo travel in the year 2017. The number of Indian women in this would not have been more or less equal to this figure.
Nitesh Chauhan, founder of a travel group called ‘Jugni’ in Delhi, says that more women are now seeing solo trippers than men. If we talk about statistics, today 65% of women prefer solo travel. Compared to these, male solo travelers are about 35%.
Ritu Mehrotra, regional manager for South Asia at Booking.com, says, “Our pre-pandemic data saw only 18% of Indian travellers planning a trip on their own while 54% of travellers now say that they will be planning a solo trip in the future.”
The situation of COVID-19 hasn’t dampened people’s objectives of travelling around the world. They want to make up for the time lost in 2020, and this sentiment is encouraging. But they are still looking for precautions.