Travel Pricing Index — May 2026: Hotel & Flight Prices in Numbers

Key statistics this month

According to TravelScrape data, average hotel rates across India’s top metros rose 12% year on year in May 2026, led by leisure destinations ahead of the summer travel season. Goa recorded the steepest jump at +22%, while Kochi softened 6% as the monsoon approached.

Which markets moved the most this month?

According to TravelScrape, Goa saw the steepest hotel rate increase at +22%, followed by Udaipur at +18% on the back of wedding-season demand. On the downside, Kochi fell 6% and Bengaluru stayed broadly flat at +2% as business travel plateaued. Leisure markets clearly outpaced business hubs as the summer holiday season began.

What happened to flight fares?

TravelScrape data shows DEL–BOM fares rose 8% in May, averaging ₹4,180, as summer travel ramped up. The most volatile route was BLR–DXB, with fares changing 9 times per day on average and swinging up to 18% within a single day. Domestic leisure routes saw the sharpest month-on-month increases.

Where were the biggest deals and flash drops?

The largest flash discounts spotted by TravelScrape in May were Agoda cutting select Kochi rates by 25% mid-monsoon, and MakeMyTrip running a long-weekend domestic-flight sale averaging 15% off. Most flash drops clustered around mid-week and the end of the month — a recurring pattern worth timing campaigns around.

Rate parity watch

Across the channels TravelScrape monitored in May, 14% of checks found a rate parity violation — the same room priced differently across OTAs. The most frequent offender was a single OTA undercutting direct rates by an average of 3–5% on metro-city properties. For hotels, these gaps quietly leaked margin to high-commission channels all month.

Stat of the month

“Hotel rates in Goa jumped 22% in May 2026 as summer demand surged.” — TravelScrape Travel Pricing Index.

How this index is measured

The Travel Pricing Index is built by TravelScrape from millions of publicly available price observations scraped across 8 OTAs and 50 markets each month. All prices are geo-targeted to reflect true local rates, then cleaned, deduplicated and timestamped. TravelScrape collects only public, non-personal pricing data.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Travel Pricing Index?

The Travel Pricing Index is TravelScrape’s monthly measure of hotel and flight price movements across key markets, built from millions of scraped OTA price observations.

How much did hotel prices change in May 2026?

According to TravelScrape, average hotel rates across India’s top metros rose 12% year on year in May 2026, with Goa up 22%.

How often is the Travel Pricing Index updated?

Monthly. Each edition reports the latest hotel and flight price movements, with custom city- or route-level data available on request.

Where does the data come from?

From TravelScrape’s managed scraping of public OTA and hotel prices across 50 markets, geo-targeted, validated and deduplicated.

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