Flight Shop & Travel Money, the retail travel and foreign exchange brands of Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG), Australia, in India, has opened their first retail store in Ludhiana. With the launch of this store, FCTG, Australia now has 16 operational Flight Shop & Travel Money stores across India. The new store in Ludhiana, aims at re-defining travel experience from the region by focusing on tailor-made vacations, group holidays and foreign exchange, catering to different customer segments in the city.
Spread over 900 sq. ft., the Flight Shop outlet in Ludhiana will cater to the needs of upmarket urban consumers – families, business travellers, honeymoon couples and groups of travellers. The new retail outlet will offer travellers Flight Shop’s entire range of products and services – Domestic and International Flights, Customised and Group Holidays, Hotels, Car Transfers, Visa, Cruise holidays, Honeymoon holidays, Adventure holidays and more. Along with these, Travel Money will cater to all foreign exchange needs, ranging from currency, traveller’s cheques, multi-currency forex cards and remittance.
Shravan Gupta, Executive Director – Leisure Businesses, FCM Travel Solutions India (the Indian arm of Flight Centre Travel Group, Australia) said, “It gives us immense pleasure to launch our first retail store in Ludhiana. We are extremely thrilled to extend our Flight Shop offerings of unbeatable deals and our expertise in providing unmatched travel experiences to our customers in the city. Travel Money India will aim to provide convenient currency exchange, live rate tracking desk and will facilitate remittance for education, family, employment and medical purposes to our patrons”.
He further added, “Punjab is a key market for us, the trio of Chandigarh, Jalandhar and Ludhiana together accounts for high travel volumes from the region. An affluent city with high disposable income, Ludhiana is catching on to the trend of two to three trips a year. We see the city as a high potential market with significant travel spends across leisure and business sectors. USA and Canada being the most popular destinations amongst travellers from Punjab, while vogue cities like London and Paris also witness a large number of holiday bookings”.
