In an age of offshoring, the U.S. and Europe remain the most popular international business travel destinations from Kerala. According to a survey conducted among IT firms in Thiruvananthapuram for the year 2019, the U.S., Canada, and Latin America are the major overseas business travel destinations of techies, with as many as 5,695 trips carried out by them to various destinations in those countries. This is followed by the U.K. and Europe.
V. Sreekumar, secretary, Group of Technologies Companies (G-Tech), who led a session on the rising knowledge economy in the recently held summit of airlines in Thiruvananthapuram, said that among the international trips by techies, the U.S. and Europe account for the bulk of the business trips from Kerala, followed by West Asian countries, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
