Unlike her previous holidays to Dubai, this time Powai resident Pooja Nichalani might have little time to shop to the 40-year-old homemaker has decided to celebrate Diwali hopping across Dubai’s casinos next week to we shop all the time to the gambling tour hopefully will make this trip different, said Nichalani and the gambling attractions at nearby tourist destinations such as Macau, Singapore and Dubai are drawing crowds this Diwali.
The travel agents said that with Diwali falling mid-week, tourists from the city have been lucky to get hotel bookings this year and “Casinos at Macau are normally packed on weekends owing to massive demand from the local population,” said Ajay Prakash, president, Travel Agents Federation of India and the closer to Mumbai, Casino Royale, the country’s largest casino vessel floating on the Mandovi river in Goa, is another attraction.
After the usual Diwali ritual of meeting friends at card parties, city-based stock broker, Deepak Lulla, 57, will leave for Goa next week to i love the place for the gambling options, food and ambience,” he said and the travel trade sources said the company running the Goa facility is planning to open its 1st branch in Daman owing to the increasing clients from Mumbai and Gujarat and they chose Daman because it is at driving distance from Mumbai and other big cities in Gujarat, said a city-based travel agent requesting anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the media.
Some of the families have also booked resorts on the outskirts of Thane and towards Lonavla to hold card parties to "Many people have been calling us asking for estimates for holding card parties at resorts nearby,” said Jay Bhatia, western region chairman of the Travel Agents Association of India.
The travel agents said that with Diwali falling mid-week, tourists from the city have been lucky to get hotel bookings this year and “Casinos at Macau are normally packed on weekends owing to massive demand from the local population,” said Ajay Prakash, president, Travel Agents Federation of India and the closer to Mumbai, Casino Royale, the country’s largest casino vessel floating on the Mandovi river in Goa, is another attraction.
After the usual Diwali ritual of meeting friends at card parties, city-based stock broker, Deepak Lulla, 57, will leave for Goa next week to i love the place for the gambling options, food and ambience,” he said and the travel trade sources said the company running the Goa facility is planning to open its 1st branch in Daman owing to the increasing clients from Mumbai and Gujarat and they chose Daman because it is at driving distance from Mumbai and other big cities in Gujarat, said a city-based travel agent requesting anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the media.
Some of the families have also booked resorts on the outskirts of Thane and towards Lonavla to hold card parties to "Many people have been calling us asking for estimates for holding card parties at resorts nearby,” said Jay Bhatia, western region chairman of the Travel Agents Association of India.