Business Description:The names of 20 locations - Mantralayam, Kollur, Sri Kalahasti, Tirupati, Coimbatore, Vaithewaran Kovil, Nathdwara, Mount Abu, Saputara, Lonavala , Ganapatipule, Mahabaleshwar, Pachmarhi, Panchgani, Alibag, Murud-Janjira, Kashid, Bandipur, Corbett, Nainital, Haridwar. We provide packages to the above places sold online and offline which consist of taxis on a disposable basis or for local sightseeing, bus tickets or railway tickets (booked through irctc) or flights in addition to hotel bookings and food arrangements.
Everything is bookable online and a lead is present as well after which it can be booked over the phone in an offline manner.
In addition to the above monetization part, IHR provides a travel platform to its users to post their travel - related queries for any of the cities for free. IHR commits a 24 hr response to these queries from its designated city experts or in-house team if these are not present. The questions are open for general users too for answering, where IHR keeps a sanity check. The travel community feature also includes hotel reviews, counter reviews and travel related blogs.
IHR also sells travel voucher solutions to corporates. In terms of the leads we get 150-300 leads per day and 20-30 conversions per day. We are aiming at having 10,000 daily views and 1000 leads per day by Jan 2009.
Industry:Hospitality/ Travel
Founded in:2006
Source of idea:Systematic search for business opportunity
Significant Competitors:"Yatra.com,MakeMyTrip.com,TravelGuru.com, HolidayIq.com,Indiatimes,Cleartrip.com"
Company Details :
Company Name:Vriti Infocom
HeadQuarters:Noida
Stage of the company:Scaling up
No of Employees (2006):0-5
No of Employees (2007):16-25
Office Locations(2006):0-1
Office Locations(2007):0-1
No of companies promoted:No
Profits (2006):
Profits (2007):
>Partnerships:
Initial Funding:Family & friends
Addl Funding:Venture capital
Institutitional Capital:No
Revneue Model:Fulfillment of hotel booking leads progressing to packages,cabs and buses.
Travel Vouchers.
Currently, flat payment of full amount in 80% cases by individual travellers. While 20% of the clients especially group travellers opt for part payments on the bookings.
Awards & honors:
Promoters Details :
Promoters Name(s):Ankit Rastogi
Age:27
HomeTown:Meerut
Education:Bachelors
No of companies promoted:No
Family Background:First gen entrepreneur
Job:Senior Software Engineering at Solidcore Techsoft Pvt Ltd
Ex-Job Description:Implementation of System Control Software
Favorite Book/Movie:Book:iCon , Movie:As Good As it Gets
