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How India travels -Dipti Jain and Sachin P Mampatta

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published Published on Jun 30, 2016   modified Modified on Jun 30, 2016
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Bus most common mode of transport; more people stay with friends and relatives, shows NSSO data

If you travel by air or stay in hotels during your domestic jaunts, you are not a typical Indian tourist. The bus is the most common mode of transport and more people stay with friends and relatives during such trips than in hotels and guest houses, according to a National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) report. Air travel is almost negligible.

That said, most people are spending more on travel than they did the last time such an exercise was carried out in 2008-09.

What gets Indians travelling?

The NSSO survey, which was carried out in 2014-15, has two kinds of responses on the leading purpose of a trip—the reason without which the trip could not have been undertaken.

However, there is a difference in the manner in which responses have been collected for different purposes. For holidaying, leisure and recreation; health and medical tourism; and shopping, a recall period of 365 days has been taken. For business; social; religious and pilgrimages; education and training and “others”, a 30-day recall period has been taken. Given the difference in methodology, the two cannot be compared. Therefore, we analyse the share of trips by leading purpose on the basis of the recall period used.

In both categories, about one in five households reported having gone on at least one overnight trip.

In the 365-day category, “health and medical” was the leading purpose of the trip in both rural and urban areas, accounting for 40% of all travel. It was followed by leisure activity (35%). In the 30-day recall period, social visits are the leading purpose of a trip, accounting for a massive 86.6% of all travel.

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