Highlights: Total market outlook: Indian travel market was valued at ₹5,972 billion ($67.6 billion) in FY26, up 7.6% y-o-y, after three consecutive years of double-digit Engines of growth: Alternative accommodation emerged as the fastest-growing category in FY26, expanding by 30%, followed [...]

As VIDEC wraps its 2026 OTA benchmarking across India, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, CEO Virendra Jain sizes up how Trip.com, Expedia, Booking.com, Agoda, Wego, Skyscanner, Airbnb and Google are jockeying for position in travel's most volatile growth markets and what could upend the pecking order next. [...]

“The elephant has started dancing” Virendra Jain, Co-founder and CEO, VIDEC and Director, Business Development, APAC and Middle East, Phocuswright casts his eye over the India travel landscape and examines the factors that are fuelling the Indian travel boom currently – from a humongous smart [...]

AS borders around the world continue to flip-flop in the face of the pandemic, the travel & tourism industry is putting its collective force behind health passports in a bid to revive travel. Simply put, health passports would allow the industry to assess travelers based on their recently uploa [...]