Raksha Bandhan to I-Day 2025: Travel Price Surge Report – Actowiz
Executive Summary August 2025 witnessed an extraordinary convergence of two major Indian holidays — Raksha Bandhan (Aug 10) and Independence Day (Aug 15) — creating a 10-day travel window that drove massive price surges across OTA platforms. Actowiz Solutions conducted a comprehensive web scraping based study across major travel websites and APIs to understand how airfares and hotel prices reacted to this surge in demand. This report offers scraped pricing insights, route-wise flight cost trends, hotel booking surges, and strategic insights for OTAs, travel startups, and airline operators to prepare better for high-demand windows. Research Objective To analyze dynamic flight and hotel pricing behavior across India during Raksha Bandhan & Independence Day 2025. To track booking window patterns, price surge timing, and OTA listing changes. To benchmark airfare trends across top metro routes (Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, etc.). To evaluate hotel price hikes in Tier-1 and Tier-2 to...