With the release of foreign exchange for travel through liberalization, the number of non-business travellers increased. ---- Realising the Indian's penchant for shopping, many countries opened up their visa regime and made it easier for the visitors from the sub continent to spend a few days in their countries.

(A) The holidaying Indians went on a shopping spree wherever they could.

(B) With the introduction of more airlines and low air fares travel abroad has become so much cheaper and accessible to a vast multitude of Indians today.

(C) It may have been just Sri Lanka or Singapore to begin with but the ambit grew and the out-bound tourism industry recorded a phenomenonal growth.