India, March 13 -- A few days before International Women's Day on March 8, Flipkart-owned online travel company Cleartrip shared insights on how Indian women are travelling today - independently, intentionally, and with greater control over their journeys. All-women international group travel has surged nearly 36% year-on-year, while solo women travellers display better planning and greater spend confidence, it said. Outbound departures from Bengaluru, Delhi, and Mumbai have spiked, pointing to metro-based working professionals travelling more to popular international destinations like Dubai, Denpasar (Bali), London, Colombo, and Singapore.

The data seemed heartening amid a glut of drifting social media posts, digital films and ponderous...