India, May 21 -- Karishma is a cricket fan, her husband loves tennis instead. So as part of their couple therapy and compromise, they are flying into London this summer, she to catch India in action and he to watch a legend smash it at the Centre Court at Wimbledon. Then the two will take a small break in Portugal, end up in Paris and fly back home.

One of the largest and fastest growing segments of the tourism industry - sports tourism and the notion of people travelling to watch sporting action live - has been an established revenue stream for quite some time. But "the concept is now fast gathering momentum among Indians and is booming to a great extent," says Heena Akhtar, co-founder of tripXOXO. In fact, the Indian Premier League gen...