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Outbound / bleisure
What it is
Indian residents travelling abroad, and the blending of business trips with leisure days added at either end. Outbound carries higher ticket sizes than domestic and pulls through visas, forex, insurance and packages
Bleisure extends hotel stays without additional customer acquisition cost
Impact on industries
- Highest-value travel segment by transaction size, and it monetises across multiple products rather than a single booking
- Structurally growing with rising incomes, easier visa regimes and expanding direct international connectivity from Indian cities
- Bleisure lengthens stays at no acquisition cost, which lifts hotel RevPAR and airline load factors on existing routes
- Highly sensitive to currency - rupee depreciation raises the cost of an overseas trip immediately and visibly
- Exposed to visa policy and geopolitical disruption in destination markets, both outside the operator's control