new delhi with domestic travel readying for takeoff after a two month india pause in business leaders of indias travel and tourism industry came together on friday to take a safety pledge committing to prioritise travelers safety maintain highhygiene standards and adhere to the new in travel going forwardthe travel safety pledge a collaboration between top travel and hospitality companies of india included 29 industry leaders from the airline hospitality and ancillary industries including spicejet cmd ajay singh vistara chief vinod kannan puneet chatwal md ceo of the ihcl air asia md and ceo sunil bhaskaran itc chief operating office anil chadha md and ceo of the oberoi group vikram oberoi chairperson park hotels priya paul and rajni hasija the director of irctc among othersspeaking to toi cofounder and ceo of makemytrip rajesh magow said as a fullstack platform we were thinking about things we can do to figure out the new normal and understand how customers will come back to travelling with this in mind when we began talking with business partners who agreed this is a common issue to get the overall travel and tourism industry fired up we are happy to say that the response has been overwhelmingmagow also told toi that even though the movement is initially likely to be restricted to essential travel by people who are stranded things are also beginning to look up for leisure travel with staycations to nearby places and other domestic destinations under the governmentbacked dekho apna desh initiative also garnering interestin a separate initiative travel companies like thomas cook and sotc which jointly conducted a consumer sentiment survey earlier this week found that 14 of the nearly 2500 consumers they surveyed across indias metros and tier 1 and 2 cities for their holiday readiness travel report future of travel post covid19 report said they will travel when restrictions ease a total of 64 said they are likely to opt for a domestic holiday in 2020 while 36 for an international tour and 75 people ranked health and safety as their top concern with 72 opting for reputed brandswhat is encouraging is that our business travel teams have already received bookings and are getting a steady flow of enquiries for workrelated travel from our corporates seeking to travel over the next few weeks said madhavan menon cmd thomas cook india ltdcoo of goibibo vipul prakash also said that the safety pledge is an attempt to reassure customers that travel partners are taking care of their safety and wellbeing when they book travel again