{"id":46419,"date":"2022-07-14T19:15:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T10:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jul\/14\/campervans-caravans-breaks-holidays-tourism-industry-india"},"modified":"2022-07-14T19:15:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T10:15:41","slug":"indians-embrace-campervanning-and-help-to-revive-countrys-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46419","title":{"rendered":"Indians embrace campervanning and help to revive country\u2019s tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hire firms and campsites are sprouting up across India, as people look to get away from it all after the pandemic<\/p>\n<p>As the rain came down on the shore of Lake Umiam in the north-east Indian state of Meghalaya, Rishab Baid and his friends sheltered in their cosy mobile home, waiting for the weather to ease before taking a walk along the edge of the vast body of water surrounded by green hills.<\/p>\n<p>Baid and his fellow travellers \u2013 Nabendu Goswami and Kaushal Jain, all 30 years old \u2013 grew up in Assam, the most populous state in the country\u2019s north-east. Now based in Bengaluru in the south, the friends wanted to reconnect with the region where they spent their childhood, while also having an adventure. Their online searches led them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.camping-co.com\/\">Camping Co<\/a>, an Indian startup offering a range of camping vehicles, from 4x4s retrofitted with tents to vintage campervans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jul\/14\/campervans-caravans-breaks-holidays-tourism-industry-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hire firms and campsites are sprouting up across India, as people look to get away from it all after the pandemicAs the rain came down on the shore of Lake Umiam in the north-east Indian state of Meghalaya, Rishab Baid and his friends sheltered in thei&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,62,61,527,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-travel","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46420,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46419\/revisions\/46420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}