Thursday 19 July 2018

Thomas Cook India Launches ‘Study Buddy’ to Leverage the Peak Student Travel Season


By Tricitynews
Chandigarh 19th July:- In a strategic move to capitalise on the significant and growing student travel segment, Thomas Cook (India) Ltd., India’s leading integrated travel and travel related financial services company, has launched “Study Buddy”. This is an exclusive student focussed Foreign Exchange promotion available across Thomas Cook India’s omni-channel network, including over 150 foreign exchange outlets pan India, and extends over a 3 month period ending September 30, 2018.
Against the backdrop of a steady increase in Indian students opting to study abroad for graduate and post graduate studies,Thomas Cook India has registered an impressive 20-25% YoY growth in its foreign exchange student business over the last 3-4 years. Given the strong growth potential and in a focussed initiative to catalyse demand and expand its student market-share, Thomas Cook India has launched a 3 month strategic Study Buddy promotion- timed strategically to target the critical booking window for student travel. Study Buddy’s attractive offers and deals intend to inspire student foreign exchange transactions witha range of assured gifts, including a 20% discount Myntra gift voucher, a 10% discount on Skybags, and a laptop every day to a lucky winner.
Deepesh Varma, Senior Vice President, Foreign Exchange–Sales & Relationship Management, Thomas Cook (India) Ltd. said that the student travel market in India is a significant opportunity and at Thomas Cook India we have already witnessed impressive growth of 20-25% YoY. Hence in an initiative to inspire demand and maximize transactions, we conceptualized “Study Buddy”, timed to coincide with the student travel season. Study Buddy’s attractive offers and assured gifts are intended to delight the value seeking student community.
He added that being a specialist in Foreign Exchange, our core product-service offering includes Remittance of University/Tuition Fees, Forex Prepaid Cards and Currency Notes backed with years of experience in guiding students and parents on changing forex regulations and the safest way in carrying foreign exchange abroad. This together with our “Study Buddy” offers creates a compelling proposition for students and parents to fulfil all their foreign exchange requirements through us, and with ease- via our omni-channel network.

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