Six-year-old Ria Malik has got to be Coldplay’s youngest fan — she’s heading all the way to Hong Kong to watch them perform. “She prefers them to Disneyland,” says her dad Subir Malik.
Like the Maliks, more people are heading to destinations abroad to be part of an event — be it the World Cup, an F1 race or a music concert.
“We’re going to Hong Kong only to watch Coldplay perform. It’s just a two-day trip and it’s worth it. Last year I had everything ready for the Live 8 concert in London where Pink Floyd was getting together again after 25 years, but didn’t manage to go because of a last-minute engagement,” says Malik.Travel agency Compact Travels has created a special package for Madonna fans. For Rs 41,000, you can get a return ticket to Prague, three nights stay at a three star, airport transfers and a ticket for the Madonna concert that will take place on September 6. “Gates were open for just half an hour and they were sold out immediately. She’s having a concert after ages and lots of people would like to go, but they worry about details like where to stay. Also, there are those who want to go sightseeing and time it with an event,” says Subhash Motwani, director, Compact Travels. He’s planning to create packages for the Eric Clapton concert on July 20 in Prague too.
Likewise, SOTC has a special cell called Sport Abroad that organises special interest tours covering sport events like tennis, grand prix, soccer and cricket amongst others. “We offered a package for the Malaysian Grand Prix in March and we had a great response. In fact, we are the official sponsors for the Cricket World Cup 2007 to be held in the West Indies and we have already started getting reservations for it,” Says Sunil Gupta, COO, SOTC, Outbound Division. “While 600 people went for FIFA World Cup, we are expecting 2000 bookings for West Indies next year,” he adds.
Vijay Nair, an event manager, says getting one international artiste down itself is tough, so he made sure he went for the Glastonbury festival in England last year along with band Pentagram. “There were 40-50 artistes performing at one festival over a couple of days. It was fantastic. Even if they weren’t very big, they were very talented,” he says.
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