Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore.


The Singapore Tourism Board has entered right into a year-long partnership with Changi Airport Group, and Sentosa Improvement Company to amplify Singapore’s model visibility within the India journey market.

That is the first-ever tripartite collaboration between the three companies and also will contain engagement with India’s journey commerce. 

The partnership locations a particular emphasis on higher-yield Indian travellers, Singapore Tourism Board stated in a press release. As a part of the collaboration, 30 Indian digital content material creators will even be invited to Singapore to showcase experiences throughout Singapore, together with Sentosa Island and Changi Airport. 

In keeping with Juliana Kua, assistant chief govt, Worldwide Group at Singapore Tourism Board, the collaboration builds on the roadshows held in India and the “sturdy curiosity” that they’ve witnessed from the market. 

Capturing the Rising Market: Final yr, 1.2 million Indians visited Singapore, a rise of almost 12% as in comparison with 2023. This yr the nation expects to seize a much bigger share of India’s outbound tourism market. 

For Changi Airport, India is a vital market, stated Lim Ching Kiat, govt vp for Air Hub and Cargo Improvement at Changi Airport Group. “With as many as 17 metropolis hyperlinks between Singapore and India, Changi Airport is probably the most linked hub to India inside Southeast Asia. Via this partnership, we intention to supply vacationers with distinctive experiences from their first touchpoint at Changi Airport to locations of curiosity in our metropolis.”

Sentosa Island, in the meantime, is about to open a variety of recent experiences this yr to additional enhance its enchantment to Indian vacationers, Sentosa Improvement Company’s assistant chief govt Michael Ma stated. 

Oyo’s Aggressive Push in Premium Lodge Phase With Sunday Model

Oyo is making an aggressive push into the premium lodge phase by means of its Sunday Inns model. The hospitality firm has set a goal of 100 Sunday inns by subsequent fiscal yr’s finish. It at the moment has 30 operational Sunday-branded properties in 10 international locations.

This transfer is a part of a broader shift in direction of “premiumization,” pushed by rising incomes and evolving traveler preferences. Sunday Inns symbolize Oyo’s foray into the four-star and five-star hospitality phase. Conceptualized for contemporary vacationers looking for immersive experiences, these properties concentrate on personalised hospitality.

Sunday Inns had debuted 15 months in the past in Jaipur and since then, it has expanded to Indian cities akin to Vadodara, Chandigarh, and Gurugram. Internationally, the model can also be making inroads into the Center East, Southeast Asia, and Europe, with its newest addition: Sunday Luxurious Downtown Al Qudaybiyah in Bahrain’s capital Manama.

All airways in India are required to share the web hyperlink to passenger rights and passenger-centric rules with vacationers by means of SMS or WhatsApp, based on a directive by Indian aviation watchdog Directorate Basic of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The transfer is aimed to make sure that passengers are properly knowledgeable about their rights. 

Airways have additionally been requested to prominently show this data on tickets and their web sites. The directive comes as a number of incidents of airline mismanagement have been reported, together with by distinguished personalities akin to Australian cricketer David Warner and Indian cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle. 

Whereas Warner complained in opposition to full-service airline Air India for making passengers board a flight that had no pilots, Bhogle criticized IndiGo for poor service. 

{Couples} Proceed to Spend on Weddings Even As Venue Prices Rise

The price of marriage ceremony venues have risen considerably, based on marriage ceremony planning platform WeddingWire India. The typical price of a marriage venue is now round INR 600,000 ($7,000), whereas 40% of {couples} allocate INR 750,000 ($8,750) for the venue. Over 30% of the {couples} are prepared to pay as excessive as INR 1 million ($11,700), indicating a rising concentrate on venue choice. 

In keeping with the platform’s survey, whereas price is a vital consideration for 53% of the {couples}, it’s not the highest precedence. Meals, drinks, and visitor expertise are shortly turning into the main target for {couples}, resulting in a rising demand for high-quality catering, leisure, and memorable visitor experiences. 

On common, {couples} are spending about 21% of their annual family earnings on their marriage ceremony, the survey revealed. 

Final yr, brokerage agency Jefferies revealed that weddings are the second-largest consumption class in India, coming solely after meals and groceries. The typical Indian spends twice as a lot on a wedding ceremony than on training from pre-primary to postgraduation ranges, it added.

An earlier Skift characteristic had talked about how Indian weddings is a multi-million-dollar extravaganza. 

Airports Authority of India’s $190 Million Push to Ayodhya Airport

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has introduced a INR 16.25 billion ($190 million) mission to develop capability on the Maharishi Valmiki Worldwide Airport in Ayodhya. In keeping with the growth plan, the annual capability on the airport might be elevated from 160,000 passengers at the moment to six million over the subsequent 28 months. 

A brand new passenger terminal will even be constructed as a part of the plans. The variety of plane bays will enhance from eight to 18.

The airport has been witnessing an increase in passenger site visitors after the consecration of the Ram Temple in January final yr. Final yr, the airport managed round 150 flights per week, this has now elevated to 174.

Marriott Opens Resort in Jim Corbett

Marriott has opened Jim Corbett Marriott Resort & Spa in Uttarakhand. The 99-key resort is the corporate’s thirteenth lodge underneath the Marriott model in India. 

Jim Corbett is a well-liked nationwide park in India, and has one of many densest tiger populations within the nation. Within the 2023-24 monetary yr, 335,000 Indian vacationers and 9,000 international vacationers visited the nationwide park, based on Indian newspaper Garhwal Put up.