Through recent times, India is its verge of emerging as developed country creating milestones in every prospective industry. According to many analysts, India was indeed on a fast development track and if it could sustain the rate of growth, it might emerge as the world’s 3rd largest economy after the US and china in around three decades. The Tourism department of India has not been left behind. As compared the travel solutions a decade ago, India now had been able to establish a cliché in churning out better options for comfortable and time saving travelling.
Let’s go back to the early 90’s where the people of India had to depend on the rickety and unpunctual trains for long distance travel throughout the nation. Also to travel in those trains one had to make his place in the lazy queues in the booking counters or had to pay quite a lump some amount to the travel agents. But, the situations have changed now. Today in the world of gizmos and internet India has been successful in maintaining quite a safe place as far as tourism is concerned. Apart from the Air India and the Indian Airlines many business big shots like Vijay Mallya have invested in the aviation sector to bring a revolution in air travelling across the country. Low cost budget airlines have come-out to compete with the Indian Railways which underwent a major reform at the times when Mr. Laloo Prasad Yadav was the railway minister. But in spite of a heavy competition between The Indian Railways and other commercial low budget air carriers Indian Railways has successfully remains as the favorite of the common man. As a result, carriers like Air Deccan failed miserable in this game of cat and mice. The war is not over yet. The airline companies introduced the e-ticketing services which included attractive offers like “cash back” to grab the attention of high class as well as the middle class people. Many websites came up with providing air tickets as well as accommodations at best deals. This proved as a major drawback for the Railway which was still a baby as far as new generation customer services are concerned which also hampered its business. Now, to compete with the domestic aviation sector, the Indian Railways is also geared up with the modern facilities to boost target customers. READ MORE