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TRAVEL PLAN: With increasing air fares, some of the business travellers have started looking at other options. – With air fares shooting up in the last few months, companies and trade bodies here are beginning to tighten their travel budgets. A district that is known for its industrial activities sees a large number of technical personnel and business visitors moving in and out of the city every day. Most of them have a substantial travel plan for business purposes and air connectivity was a boon during the last two years. An executive in one of the leading textile mills here says its marketing personnel travel to West Asia, far East and European Union countries almost 10 times a year, in total. Earlier, a round trip of Bangkok-Osaka-Bangkok used to cost nearly Rs. 32,000 a head. Now, it is about Rs. 54,000. “We have to necessarily travel to get some business. Earlier, the visits used to be for just meeting the customers, interaction and showcasing the products. Now, there is a pressure to get business during each trip,” the executive says. “We cannot cut down the trips. So, we look at getting business to at least cover up these expenses,” he adds. In the case of industrial associations, the increase in air tariff is forcing many of them to opt for road or train travelling. K. Selvaraju, secretary of the Southern India Mills’ Association, says a number of meetings are held in Mumbai and New Delhi and the increase in the fares is forcing the executives to skip some of the meetings. “Travelling has certainly come down with the raise in tariffs,” he says. “As an association covering the four Southern States we extend our services to units in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka too. Our executives need to visit the mills regularly for training and similar programmes. When the fares were low, they used to go by flight. Now, they travel by train or sometimes by bus too,” he says. According to Sanal Kumar, branch manager of PL World Ways, air ticket booking by companies has come down by nearly 20 per cent in the recent days with the costs going up. For domestic travel, the average cost is not less than Rs. 3,000 a ticket, he points out.
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