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 fare 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 percentage 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 to make arrangements popular routes like madurai coimbatore bengaluru hyderabad thiruvananthapuram see high demand for seats from homebound travellers while goa andaman and nicobar himachal see a rise in holiday travellerstravellers to madurai will have to shell out rs3000 for a ac iii tier ticket by suvidha special train that departs on friday while on sleeper class the fare has touched rs1100 and only 11 seats are available on the train because of high demandparveen travels managing director a afzal said demand for seats had not come down though more buses are operated by private and 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 saysso the price of each ticket will go up by 8 to 10 per cent more than what it was two years ago he addedmanager of kpn travels periannan said only the chennai bengaluru sector the patronage would be relatively less 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 from seen excellent traction over past few weeks