{"id":999585,"date":"2026-03-27T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999585"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:42:21","slug":"maharashtra-emerges-as-event-tourism-hub-airbnb-report-flags-surge-in-travel-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/maharashtra-emerges-as-event-tourism-hub-airbnb-report-flags-surge-in-travel-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra emerges as event tourism hub, Airbnb report flags surge in travel demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerts, sporting events and cultural festivals are rapidly reshaping travel patterns in Maharashtra, driving longer stays, higher spending and broader participation in local tourism economies, according to a new report by Airbnb. <\/p>\n<p>The report, Unlocking Maharashtra\u2019s Event Economy: Powering Tourism and Local Communities, highlights how large-scale events are positioning the state as a key hub for event-led travel in India. <\/p>\n<p>According to the findings, concerts in Mumbai, including performances by global acts such as Coldplay, led to a 100% year-on-year increase in nights booked, while guest check-ins surged 170%, as travellers increasingly converted events into multi-day trips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerts, sporting events and cultural festivals are rapidly reshaping travel patterns in Maharashtra, driving longer stays, higher spending and broader participation in local tourism economies, according to a new report by Airbnb. The report, Unlocking Maharashtra\u2019s Event Economy: Powering Tourism and Local Communities, highlights how large-scale events are positioning the state as a key hub for event-led travel in India. According to the findings, concerts in Mumbai, including performances by global acts such as Coldplay, led to a 100% year-on-year increase in nights booked, while guest check-ins surged 170%, as travellers increasingly converted events into multi-day trips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}