{"id":10431,"date":"2019-10-16T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/?page_id=10431"},"modified":"2019-10-16T12:01:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T12:01:16","slug":"thomas-cook-india-reports-strong-25-growth-in-its-student-foreign-exchange-business","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/thomas-cook-india-reports-strong-25-growth-in-its-student-foreign-exchange-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Cook India Reports Strong 25% Growth in its Student  Foreign Exchange Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our Forex team announced the second edition of its <strong><em>Study Buddy\u00a0programme <\/em><\/strong>&#8211; a focused initiative to catalyse demand and expand its student market-share pan India. The introduction of the Study Buddy programme has been strategically timed to target the critical booking window for student travel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">India is today the second largest source of international students. According to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), overseas travel spends by Indians rose more than 60% Y-O-Y in May (just before the international academic season), thus highlighting a marked increase in overseas education travel and education spends. Thomas Cook India\u2019s internal data further validates this strong growth potential with an uptake in queries from student travellers of over 25-30% YoY.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some of the\u00a0<strong>attractive deals<\/strong>\u00a0included<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>a <strong>free holiday at a Sterling Holiday Resort<\/strong> on university fee remittances above Rs. 5 lakhs and a <strong>BookMyShow<\/strong> voucher worth Rs. 500\/- on purchase of forex cards worth USD 2500 &amp; above- Additionally, <strong>assured gifts such as a 3-month free membership on Gaana, a 20% discount on Safari Bags, a flat 30% off on Raymond readymade garments and discounts on Park Avenue\u2019s select products are on offer.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Deepesh Varma, Senior Vice President, Sales &amp; Relationship Management \u2013 Foreign Exchange,\u00a0Thomas Cook India\u00a0<\/strong>said,\u00a0\u201cStudents travelling overseas for education represent a key demographic, and a strong growth driver for our foreign exchange student business. The Thomas Cook India\u2019s Study Buddy programme hence serves as a valuable offering, designed specifically to handle the entire life cycle of students looking to study abroad and encompasses a range of products and services from university application fees, tuition fees, living expenses, air tickets, insurance, forex cards, and more, with the added benefit of a range of attractive offers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He added, \u201cThomas Cook India has been providing university fee remittance services for over 50 years now. Students can avail fee remittances services across any of our 150+ foreign exchange outlets pan India.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\r\n<a style=\"color: rgb(68,79,247);\" href=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/\">Home<\/a>\r\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Forex team announced the second edition of its Study Buddy\u00a0programme &#8211; a focused initiative to catalyse demand and expand its student market-share pan India. The introduction of the Study Buddy programme has been strategically timed to target the critical booking window for student travel. India is today the second largest source of international students&#8230;. <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/thomas-cook-india-reports-strong-25-growth-in-its-student-foreign-exchange-business\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10431"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10716,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10431\/revisions\/10716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}