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What is a travel loan?

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What is a travel loan?

A travel loan is a relatively new concept in the field of banking and financial sector. In the domain of personal loans

, there is a category of loans given for the purpose of travelling. This loan is for domestic or foreign travel. With the era of globalization and liberal markets, backpackers and couples, family vacations across continents have increased.

This familiarity with the entire market area of the world by the tourism and hospitality sector has made it possible for banks to start creating travel loans. To enable the possibility of people with fewer funds to take EMI loans and pay sums of money for a long trip abroad easily, many private banks, namely, HDFC, Axis, ICICI, Tata Capital, Bajaj Finserv have started giving out these loans.

Standard rates on these loans include a processing fee, prepayment charges and of course the varying interest rates based on the CIBIL score. They are given out, for salaried, eligible customers in short periods of time, sometimes as short as 10 seconds.

The amount, Interest rates and duration

Loan ranging from Rs 1000 to 15 lakhs are generally disbursed. The interest rates begin from 11.99%. And the tenure for repayment is 6 months to 5 years.

CIBIL

The importance of CIBIL scores in the availability of any loan, including travel loan is always very high. CIBIL scores when good, allow a great deal of relaxation by the bank to the concerned person in getting the loan amounts. Also, CIBIL status also improves or decreases proportionately to nature, interest and principal loan amount when paid back by the borrower.

Repayment

While a salaried person will find taking and paying the loan from his salaried account easy, the others who may obtain the loan by submitting ID proofs, address proofs, photographs and income proof by forms like income tax return slips.

Summary

While travel loans are a form of personal loan, there are a must be a careful evaluation of the total budgetary requirements for the travel, the capacity to repay through EMI and consideration for the interest rates involved that fall in the same category as personal loans.

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