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When Anita Rao Kashi travelled with her family abroad, she never felt like she was on a holiday.

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Single women travellers in India are getting ready to explore the world... minus the extra baggage

When Anita Rao Kashi travelled with her family abroad, she never felt like she was on a holiday. “I was always conscious of some responsibility or someone who had to be taken care of. It was never a holiday for me.” So, she decided to take matters into her own hands. The next time she needed a break, Anita took off on her own and she says it was the most liberating experience she’s had.

When you are travelling on your own or in an all-women’s group, it’s so much more fun than a regular holiday,” she says. “Besides the fact that it’s a no-holds barred holiday, there is the added attraction of discovering new places on your own. I went to Egypt on an all-women tour and it was so much fun,” says travel writer Kashi, one of the increasing numbers of Indian women who don’t want to go the big extended family way when it comes to holidays.

Sumitra Senapathy, who runs Women on Wanderlust, a travel group that specialises in only-women tours, says the profile of the single women traveller is not longer restricted to just urban, well paid executives. “I have housewives from small towns like Manipal, Coimbatore and Lucknow who have booked themselves on tours to exotic places like Turkey, South Africa and Ladakh,” she says.

“My clients are not just single women, but housewives who are willing to leave their kids, husbands and crazy schedules behind to spend a week getting to know themselves and a bit of the world. When on holiday, they shed all inhibitions — you’ll find them doing everything from snorkelling, paragliding to bungee jumping,” she adds.

Travel companies are also waking up to the idea that ‘single women travellers’ will soon be a big and lucrative market.  “Right now, this market is developing. Their numbers may not be that high as of now, but it has great potential in future,” says Sunil Gupta, COO, SOTC.

“Right from do-it-yourself holidays to customised packages, we have a lot of takers for such packages. And it’s not just the regular destinations that these women are travelling to. Unexplored places like Kenya and Tanzania are also hot favourites among single women travellers,” he says.

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