With the Indian holiday season underway, a recent survey of 1,000 Indian travellers conducted by leading global travel search site Skyscanner presented interesting findings on the holiday packing habits of men and women.
For instance in terms of baggage preference, 21% of women preferred 3 bags for travel as compared with 14% of men who would easily opt for 1 bag. Similarly, 24% of women travellers admitted to requiring 1 week or more to pack before a vacation as opposed to 32% of male travellers who revealed they could pack the day before.
With various Indian carriers doing a flip-flop on their baggage allowance; it is interesting to note that Indian women travellers remain unfazed by the extra charges soon to be levied on checked in bags and believe that travelling in style is far more important. Indian men on the other hand required minimal time with 32% of the men surveyed saying they could pack the day before and 11% even boasting that they could pack the same day.
Carrying more bags comes with a price and it comes as no surprise that 30% of the women travellers surveyed, admitting to paying excess baggage allowance at least once at airports with 13% even admitted to paying more than twice. 39% of men in contrast, have never paid excess baggage allowance at airports.
An interesting finding of the survey was that though women emerged as the disorganised packers, men had more items confiscated from their bags as opposed to women. For instance, 32% of men owned up to having items confiscated from their cabin/ checked in baggage as opposed to 30% of the women surveyed.
Kavitha Gnanamurthy, Skyscanner’s Market Development Manager for India, commented: “Our survey findings clearly reveal that when it comes to holiday packing, men and women are poles apart.
For instance, Indian women, prefer packing in advance and are not weighed down by baggage allowances and Indian men in contrast travel light and can’t be too fussed over choosing what to pack.”
