India continues to have the largest share of inbound travellers to the APAC region India continues to have the largest share of inbound travellers to the APAC region

India: Travel recovery continues

India continues to have the largest share of inbound travellers to the APAC region, at 24.4% of total arrivals in Q1 as of 11 March, according to data from analytics company Forwardkeys.

ForwardKeys’ VP of insights, Olivier Ponti pointed out at ITB India that this is ‘not a bad result’ when considering air ticketing data shows that international arrivals in APAC in Q1 was down by 86%.

However, in terms of recovery India as a destination is performing at -59% vs 2019. The best performing region in APAC for on-the-books arrivals is Pakistan with a 0.2% increase vs the same period in 2019. The Maldives and Bangladesh are also showing strong signs of resilience.

After the discovery of the Omicron variant, tickets for both arrivals and departures in India dived, however, arrivals have now slowly been recovering back to pre-Omicron levels and departures are not far behind, with figures for the week commencing
3 March at -19% and -58% vs 2019 for arrivals and departures.

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