ixigo Trains launches Spiritual Holiday Gifting for the festive season with ixigo Bharat Darshan

Gurugram, September 30, 2026: ixigo Trains, India's leading AI-based train ticketing platform, recently announced Spiritual Holiday Packages with ixigo Bharat Darshan. As the festive season approaches, ixigo Bharat Darshan is adding a more experiential dimension to festive gifting with its new spiritual travel gifting feature, allowing users to gift a trip to their loved ones instead of a conventional festive present. From helping a parent fulfil a long-held travel wish to gifting a loved one a journey they’ve always dreamed of, ixigo Bharat Darshan offers a meaningful way to turn travel dreams into festive gifts.

For some, the Dussehra and Diwali holiday period also presents an opportunity to take a break, travel together and create memories with loved ones. The gifting experience also opens up the possibility of children travelling with their parents, turning a long-pending travel wish into an opportunity to spend quality time together, or giving the journey for parents to experience on their own. With ixigo Bharat Darshan, users can discover and plan trips across destinations in India, making it easier to turn an idea or long-held travel wish into a bookable experience. Travellers can book their ixigo Bharat Darshan holiday with an initial payment of just Rs.250, with the remaining amount payable 16 days before the journey.

The new gifting feature brings together travel discovery, planning and gifting, allowing users to give something that can be experienced and remembered long after the festive season.

The launch comes at a time when festive breaks can serve as a natural window for those families who already choose to travel during the period. Rather than assuming that festive travel is a universal behaviour, ixigo Bharat Darshan aims to cater to travellers who see the holidays as an opportunity to plan a family getaway or make a loved one's travel dream a reality.

Speaking on this, Dinesh Kumar Kotha, CEO, ixigo Trains & ConfirmTkt, said, “Festivals have always been about spending time with the people who matter to us, and increasingly, people are looking for gifts that create memories rather than simply add to what they already own. With Bharat Darshan’s gifting feature, we wanted to make it easier for people to turn a long-held travel wish into a meaningful gift, especially for parents who may have been putting off a trip they’ve wanted to take for years. Whether it is a journey you take together or one you gift to them, the idea is to make travel part of how people celebrate and connect.”

This festive season, the platform invites users to look beyond traditional presents and consider a different kind of gift, a journey, a shared experience, and perhaps a long-awaited travel dream finally coming true.

About ixigo (NSE: IXIGO, BSE: 544192)

Launched in 2007 by Aloke Bajpai & Rajnish Kumar, ixigo (Le Travenues Technology Limited) is India’s leading AI-based travel platform, helping millions of travellers every day to plan, book and manage their trips across rail, air, buses and hotels through its ixigo, ConfirmTkt and Abhibus apps. With over 57 crore Annual Active Users in Fiscal 2026, ixigo is India’s leading travel platform by user base. For more information, please visit http://www.ixigo.com

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