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Over 200,000 people attended the Coldplay’s concert at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, in January | Photo: Instagram/coldplay
India’s live events scene is hitting a high note. With global performers adding the country to their tour maps and the government aiming to double the concert economy, hotels in key metro cities are bracing for sold-out weekends. Travel operators, too, are curating packages built entirely around concerts.
Concerts were once a single-evening affair. Now, travellers are turning them into full-fledged weekend getaways, giving rise to the “gigcation” — a short, experience-led micro-holiday. Between October and December, event-linked trips have jumped 42 per cent year-on-year, according to artificial intelligence-powered travel and experiences platform Thrillophilia.
The shift gathered pace this year
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