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Indian vacationers favour foreign shores
Financial Express Kochi
|December 14, 2025
THE COMPOSITION OF outbound travel underscores the shift.
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Leisure accounted for just 32.8% of overseas trips in 2021. By 2024, the share had risen to 42.5%, over 13 million leisure travellers. In the first half of 2025, leisure rose further to 45.9% in the first quarter and 48.9% in the second, signalling a structural move toward holiday-led international travel.
With discretionary trips driving demand, December has become India's busiest month for foreign departures.
This story is from the December 14, 2025 edition of Financial Express Kochi.
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