To travel agents in South Africa planning India for 2027: you don't need to change your DMC to get specialist help. A pilgrimage group, one region, one tricky requirement, or overflow in peak months. That is where a good ground partner earns its place.
@Tourism_Update AI can point a traveller to a destination. Getting a group through a temple town at dawn still needs people on the ground. Both will matter.
@Tourism_Update Interesting read. On the India ground side, specialist trips like pilgrimage, heritage roots and small group regional programmes feel like where the steady demand sits. Curious whether SA agents are seeing the same.
@ONGC_@reachvirasat Three decades of Virasat keeping music, crafts and stories moving across generations. That kind of continuity is India's real heritage.
@manasgond 48 percent of overnight trips being pilgrimages says a lot. The real opportunity is in handling those journeys well: stays near temples, care for elders, timings that work.
@TTDevasthanams Over 83,000 pilgrims in a single day and still six to eight hours in line. Tirumala's devotion runs on a scale few places match. Govinda Govinda.