chennai there are just two options left to travel home for those who have not made their plans already travel by bus shelling out exorbitant fares or drive down as an extended weekend for puja holidays begins on friday flights are ruled out as only two to three seats are left for travel on friday night and for saturday morning while trains are fully bookedpuja and diwali are long holidays during which hundreds of people who live in the city for work return home to be with families a small per cent of people plan an international or domestic getaway which according to travel and tour operators is a recent trend railways and bus operators are expecting a huge rush and have started making arrangements tickets to popular destinations like madurai coimbatore bengaluru hyderabad and thiruvananthapuram are high on demand among homebound travellers while goa andaman and nicobar himachal are seeing a rise of holiday travellerstravellers to madurai will have to shell out 3000 for an ac iiitier ticket by dynamicfare suvidha special train that departs on friday while on sleeper class the fare touched 1100 only 11 seats are available on the train because of high demand the usual fares are 800 and 300 respectively parveen travels managing director a afzal said demand for seats had not come down though more buses were being operated by private players and the state transport corporation to various parts of the statea lot of people from tamil nadu work in software firms in bengaluru and they prefer to come to their home during the holidays similarly many people from bengaluru live in various parts of the state they also wish to celebrate the festival at home so people these days travel a lot even people take the sleeper buses to go to places such as hyderabad from chennai which will take nearly 12 hours he saysthe price of each ticket will go up by 8 to 10 per cent more than what it was two years ago he said periannan of kpn travels said partonage would be relatively low in the chennaibengaluru sector yatracom president sharat dhall said vacationing in the festive months seems to have become the norm with durga puja navratri dussehra and diwali on the horizon we have observed an increase in leisure travel reflected by improvement in passenger loads on flights to beach and hill destinations with respect to international travel the stability of the rupee has provided an impetus for travellers to plan trips abroad destinations like europe and thailand continue to attract the bulk of tourists as seen from the excellent traction over the past few weeks