GCC Hotels To Attract Indian Millennials

Indian millennial tourists are opting for a little and often approach when it comes to traveling, according to a recent survey, urging GCC hoteliers and travel professionals, who will undoubtedly use Arabian Travel Market 2018 as a platform to showcase their facilities and promotional offers, in an attempt to capture a share of this multi-million visitor, market niche.

The leading regional travel and tourism event, which will be held at Dubai World Trade Centre from April 22-25 2018, has been referring to a recent survey, from Indian online travel portal Yatra.com, which revealed that out of 1,592 respondents, 66% said they would only be planning to travel for just seven days or less, at a time, but they would however, travel more frequently. Interestingly, 43% of those surveyed were millennials.

Simon Press, Senior Exhibition Director, ATM, said: “There are more than 400 million millennials in India. In terms of short break deals and offers this is sure to alert travel professionals and hoteliers throughout the GCC, being in such close proximity to their Indian neighbour. The travel time from Mumbai to Dubai, in particular, is just over three hours, and from Mumbai to Muscat, just under three hours, putting both cities on the radar as prime short break destinations.”