The headlines roared “Tourism in India in 2024 will break records!” With multiple hotels, airlines and trains going through a phase of depleted capacities, all wishing they had double their existing inventory! Domestic travel with a rebounded economy has delivered to the Indian tourism industry. The entire country is on construction mode, whether it is the greenfield airports, upgraded railway networks to highways that we as a generation, who grew up in the eighties and nineties could only dream about!
2023 was also about breaking the headline market with India’s G20 presidency to the Cricket World Cup. The year also saw mega Convention centres being opened and re-creation of new religious tourism destinations of Varanasi and Ayodhya. The year also saw, amid record crunching airline occupancies, headline grabbing record orders for Boeings and Airbuses, while there emerged some difficult times for a couple of our airlines as well. The year 2023 also saw record…