kolkata with the covid19 situation having considerably improved across the country the travel and tourism industry is pinning hopes on a happy summer domestic leisure travel which has already touched 75 of its precovid business mark would fetch more bookings yearonyear in the next twothree months as summer vacation begins feel travel operatorssanjiv agarwal chairman of fairfest media said he is expecting business as usual this summer he was talking on the sidelines of ttf one of the oldest travel and tourism roadshows in eastern india which was inaugurated by nandini chakraborty state principal secretary tourismagarwal who is the organiser of ttf pointed out that the year 2021 has begun on a positive note for the travel and tourism industry with the vaccination drive underway travellers seem to have gained confidence air travel has exceeded 85 of its precovid levels there is already a strong revival of demand for domestic leisure travel he statedaccording to him international travel may restart later in the year while business travel within india has recovered almost halfway 50 and is soon likely to reach the levels of previous yearagarwal argued that as outbound travel from india has not started yet highend tourist traffic are opting for domestic locations inbound loss was compensated by reduction in outbound traffic he addedthis years ttf is the first major physical postpandemic event for tourism in the region over 140 participants from 14 states participated in the fair some of the states include rajasthan gujarat jk nagaland up along with otherswest bengal tourism has joined as the host state of the show while gujarat is the premium partner state uttarakhand and rajasthan are partner states himachal pradesh tamil nadu jammu kashmir uttar pradesh nagaland tripura and jharkhand have come onboard as feature states alongside key private players from dmcs the hospitality sector aviation and others