Indians wary of planning vacations on Internet

July 16, 2008, Deccan Herald

A plethora of travel websites in India have come up in recent times offering the traveller a variety of options from flights to hotels to vacation packages online. However, a recent study by Travelocity throws up the fact that the average Indian traveller is still not hooked on to this way of travel planning and booking. Some of the primary inhibitors is the lack of comfort with usage of such portals as well as less confidence with regard to accuracy of costs portrayed. Thus this segment of the online market has still considerable challenges to overcome to become a serious player and become pervasive as some of the other Internet services in India.

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