April 2021 Edition

Description

GoYaana is a travel technology startup committed to empower the hospitality industry with advanced technology platforms to cater to today’s experiential travellers.

With the rise of experiential tourism, travellers want to immerse into destination by actively and meaningfully engaging with its culture, food, environment etc. They no longer consider hotel as just places to check-in and sleep, but to focus on the new experiences the can get in and around their stay.

On the other hand,hotels have traditionally been more focussed on selling the ‘stay experiences and optimising their pricing and marketing strategies to scale their business. But in the platform era, digital intermediaries are grabbing a significant percentage of the hotel’s revenues. Those hotels relying on linear scaling method can be overthrown in a matter of months by an outsider as has been seen with the success of massive platform-based businesses like AirBnB,Uber,Amazon,etc.

GoYaana understands this upcoming threat in the hospitality industry and provides technologies to move from LINEAR scaling strategy to PLATFORM business model,and capture the best from this rising experiential tourism economy.

Backed by more then 30 years of founder’s collective experience in the field of innovation and with extensive research new traveller trends, Goyaana currently offers these unique technology products at zero upfront cost:

1. Smart Trip Experience App
2. Experience Booking Engine
3. Food Ordering app
4. Guest Behaviour Analytics
5. Digital Concierge App
6. Hotel E-Shop

GoYaana also enables it’s partner hotels to get more direct booking by generating leads through their AI based B2C Trip Experience Planner platform

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March 2021 Edition

Description

tripdarwin.com is a platform that helps people to create dynamic packages for holidays to any part of the world and book them in real-time at the click of a button! With tripDarwin one can:

1. Create a package including hotels, transfers, local car/transport, sightseeing, meals and even tour guides;
2. Explore Trip suggestions for destinations you not known much about; and
3. Modify existing packages to the preference of the traveller.

   The differentiating factor of tripDarwin apart is the depth of content and the range of flexibility along with fulfilment ability. The founders have spent years curating the content and building partnerships that few in the world of travel have under one roof. Darwin is a technology-enabled travel company that is reaching out to travel agents/companies of all sizes to help them address the following major problems:

1. Reduce overhead through automation
2. Reduce turn-around time for packages;
3. Improve package enquiry-to-conversion ratio;
4. Improve profitability by selling new destinations

tripDarwin was founded by Aditya Darooka and Nikhil Kulkarni in 2016. Between them, they combine Travel and Technology experience of over 35 years. Aditya started his first travel company in 2008 after working as an ethical hacker with KPMG and is channeling his significant industry knowledge into this platform. Nikhil, who spent more than a decade with KPMG consulting clients on technology, is using his technology background to helm the tech. With cutting-edge features and combination of data and travel intelligence, tripDarwin is ready to change the way the world of travel works!

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February 2021 Edition

Description

KePSLA is a new age travel technology company that focuses on helping the hospitality industry. with solutions that help them enhance their guest experiences. It focuses on organsing travel search date using Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning to provide an excellent experience for travellers while making it more rewarding for hoteliers.

Its solutions cover the entire spectrum of the traveller journey from creating inspiration, helping in research, improving the booking process, enhancing travel experiences and influencing advocacy.

Our solutions help hotels do the following:

• Improve direct bookings on website.
• Understand Guest sentiments and provide impactful insights on hotel performance, guest engagement & market positioning that can be used by both large hotel chains and standalone hotels.
• Customised Technology Development for some of the best-known hospitality brands in the space of image recognition, brand experience metrics, etc.
• Tracking and improving travellers experiences in hotels.
• KePSLA provides sophisticated tools and technology that enables Guests to interact with hotel effortlessly. Cutting-edge technologies that use patent pending NLP solutions are our key strengths.

KePSLA now offers six products to hotel in the space of Guest Experience and they include:

1. Guest Experience Intelligence
2. Guest Survey technology
3. Content Management system
4. CRM
5. Touchless messaging
6. Rate Shopper

KePSLA now works with over 2,700 hotels around the world in 44 countries and with brands including Richmonde Group, Corsendonk, Selina, Fern Resorts, Remote Year, Mayfair Resorts, etc.

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January 2021 Edition

Description

Gabbit – A tourism technology company – solves underlying problems in the tourism sector by using a location-based virtual network of tourism stakeholders, information and intelligence.
It currently addressing 2 major challenges in Domestic tourism:

1. Tourist Safety -
   • Tourists are new to the place, not much acquainted with the place & culture.
   • Local Administration doesn’t have tourist information or location, restricting timely help. Things get more complex in case of disaster
2. Over tourism, Over-Crowd, Long Queues situation, Parking Unavailability, etc.

Gabbit uses technology, collaboration, tourism knowledge and intelligence to solve above issues. The system is successfully piloting in one of most complex tourism circuit - “Char Dham Yatra” (Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri & Yamunotri) in Uttarakhand, in association with Government & tourism industry. The System helps in -

(a) Tourist Safety - System actively monitors entire Yatra route (1,200 km) w.r.t. various parameters such as Landslides, Road blockage, Weather conditions & alerts, Crowd & Queue situations, Medical emergency, accidents etc. Based on threshold values, system generates warning & alerts to respective departments as per SOPs. Information relevant for public is also sent to tourists, hoteliers, tour operators etc. This works as effective “Public Address System”. The System gets all this information from different sources including various government departments (like Disaster Management, Police), Tourism Industry and tourists.
Tourists interact with system using a “tourism” mobile app.

(b) Enhanced tourist’s experience by adding regional experiences such as home-stay, village tour, authentic Garhwali food, visit scenic places, hiking & bicycling, water sports etc.

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December 2020 Edition

Description

Camping Co is a travel tech platform that enables anyone to discover and book affordable self-drive recreational vehicles to explore North East India. Overlanding with Camping Co is all about taking the road less travelled and getting away from the tourist trail in purpose-built overland SUVs. These SUVs are designed to take one well off the beaten track and into the heart of every state Camping Co operates. The company strives to promote experiences that are on a deeper level where you make genuine connections with local communities, enjoy the journey, and truly explore.

Commenting on their offerings, Sharma said, “Our overland journeys are fully customised through our proprietary technology to offer control into our users’ hands to decide how ‘active’ or ‘relaxed’ they want their journey to be. The ability to go beyond the tourist infrastructure is a major highlight of overland travel and to support this we have built tech solutions assist our users to discover and book caravan parks, do route planning and preload Camping Co’s self-drive SUV Campers with a list of add-ons such as BBQ grills, cooktop, cutlery kit and cooking utensils, camping gears, cycles and even kayaks to allows users to tailor the experience exactly the way they like.”

Launched in 2018, Camping Co is based out of Guwahati, Assam, has campsites located largely in Northeast India, Bhutan, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. In addition to renting the SUV Campers, Camping Co also makes bookings for campsites and eco-lodges situated in the lap of nature from their website.

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November 2020 Edition

Description

Yellow Plate is on a mission to digitise the commercial vehicles segment involving millions of supply and demand stakeholders across both passenger and goods transport in India via its enabling technology platforms and an integrated marketplace.

Vehicles’ rental vendors via Yellow Plate platform can digitise their businesses, offer services to customers on mobile, capitalize on their vendor network to increase fleet and business in addition to new clients and bookings from Yellow Plate’s retail and partners marketplace.

The consumer segment can now get services digitally from their vendors or access large numbers of digital vendors across India via the Yellow Plate partners’ marketplace and save up to 30% in costs. Yellow Plate is integrating its digital ecosystem with offline channels (O2O) by appointing partners across cities in India.

Talking about the platform, Tulsyan said, “Yellow Plate’s vision is to digitise every stakeholder’s across supply, demand, services and product segment in the commercial vehicles segment. The ecosystem built over the past three years can accommodate every vehicle category and demand (need vehicles on rent) and supply (provide vehicles on rent) stakeholders. We have phased out vehicle categories, and our first phase involves commercial cars. By 2022, Yellow Plate aims to digitize lakhs of supply and demand stakeholders in the commercial car category and add delivery vans as another vehicle segment.”

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October 2020 Edition

Description

Tripeur is an AI/ML technology-based three-in-a-box SaaS platform built to deliver saving for the CFOs, personalised experiences for the Business Travellers, and great efficiency to the Travel Admins. Additionally, Tripeur is a go-to technology platform for TMCs looking to automate and digitise the entire travel operations and managing the corporate customers.

There are three key aspects of Tripeur’s BOT known as Taiva (Travel AI and Virtual Assistant).

Virtual Travel Assistant : Imagine Tripeur as a BOT-driven virtual travel assistant that allows you to book travel,analyse spend,and control the expenses. The Conversational UI help the travellers to log the request in seconds and the Bots build the travel plan in minutes.

TripCue: This is the user behaviour management feature that nudges users to take the right decisions while selecting the right travel plan. Booking and saving for the organisation.

WhatIf: The WhatIf feature shows the CFOs and the Travel Admins the possible savings that are potentially missed as the travel policies are not optimised. This feature provides proactive recommendations to the CFOs to take the right decision.

Commenting on the product Rajagopalan says, “Tripeur delivers over 30% YoY savings for the CFOs, personalsed experience for the Business Travellers, and 45% efficiency to the Travel Admins.We have unicorns and large clients, such as Udaan, Unacademy, DTDC, Livspace and Meesho.”

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Sept 2020 Edition

Description

Trainman is a one-stop shop for all information and intelligence about Indian Railways. Trainman was built to solve the woes of train travellers in India by using data and technology. It was the first product in India which could predict the confirmation chances of waitlisted train tickets. Some of the other core features are accessing PNR status, seat availability, train schedule, train live status and train ticket booking.

Founded by Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT-R) alumni, Trainman is an extremely popular product. It is used by 5 lakh train travellers every single day. The Trainman Android app has more than 65 lakh downloads on Play Store. It was also selected by Facebook under the FBStart program. Trainman is a registered startup under Startup India Program by the Government of India. It is running bootstrapped and profitable.

Website https://www.trainman.in

Playstore hwttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.trainman.trainmanandroidapp

Appstore https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/trainman-predict-waiting-pnr/id962054633

Commenting on the product Vineet Kumar Chirania said, “We observed that innovation was happening for all travel modes, but trains. MakeMyTrip and Cleartrip started innovating with flights segments. OYO did the same for budget hotels, and Redbus made online bus booking possible. Ola and Uber revolutionised cabs. However, no one was doing anything on train side of things. And surprisingly the Indian Railways is the biggest carrier and transports 2.3 million passengers every day. That’s when we decided we will innovate in the train travel space. We aim to become the biggest train portal in India for train information and ticketing after the government-run IRCTC.”

“We aim to cross 1 crore app downloads and undertake train ticket bookings worth INR 250 crore annually by the end of 2021,” Chirania shared.

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August 2020 Edition

Description

Flyzy is conceptualised by students of IIT-G (Indian Institute of Technology - Guwahati), with the objective to drive innovation in the aviation industry by leveraging the power of technology. One of its flagship products is the flyzy App that connects passengers with airlines, airports and merchants, facilitating a fast, simple and personalised contactless airport experience.

Some of the key features in the first phase are In-App Check-In, Contactless Airport Shopping, Real-time flight status and In-App Mobile Boarding Pass. Contactless Airport Parking, Smart Assistant, Auto Check-In are in the pipeline. The app is expected to be live by mid-September 2020, while the beta version of the website is live.

The USP of flyzy is that the service is integrated with different air ticking platforms and OTAs via SDK (Software Development Kit) and APIs so that passengers can experience flyzy with existing apps in their phones. It also helps the air ticking platforms to give their customers an unmatched experience.

Website https://flyzygo.com

According to Deepak Meena, Founder & CEO, flyzy increases user engagement, and opens new business opportunities for OTAs, as the OTA app now becomes a complete travel app. From real-time flight status to mobile boarding pass to airport shopping flyzy integrates all these features via SDKs in the OTA. "It can be rightly termed as a complete seamless Day of Travel Solution, at low cost."

With regards to the B2B TMCs, Meena said they plan to partner with B2B TMCs and provide their customers with a complete travel solution. "We will partner with B2B online/offline TMCs, either by integrating flyzy’s SDK in their own platform or in case the TMC doesn’t have any platform, we provide our own platform to them."

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July 2020 Edition

Description

BookBySlot is a dynamic hotel booking engine offering the flexibility to pay for need-based requirement. Hotels are contracted on BookBySlot’s platform on the basis of tariff and slots ranging from 4/8/11/24 hours. Currently, the website offers inventory of 1,200 hotels in Delhi, Mumbai, Benglauru, Ahmadabad and Chennai, and aims to enhance its supply inventory to 5,000 properties in 70 cities across India by year-end. The BookBySlot app is available for download on Android and iOS devices, and has integrated the Paytm payment gateway and Paytm wallet to accept payments from all major debit and credit cards.

Website www.bookbyslot.com

According to Anubhav Agarwal, "We offer a solution to increase ARR and RevPar for hotels to fill their unused rooms which is a USD 6 billion opportunity in India. We provide flexibility in check in and check out through dynamic slotting of the hours during the day and, this makes us distinctly different from other OTAs in the market. Besides, we are also developing a product called the 'single API solution', using which hotels, OTAs, and developers can offer hotel bookings on slot with dynamic pricing, cabs on the go, bus booking and amenities as service in hotels in real time by just one click of a button in the cities of Dubai, Singapore, London, Paris and New York City." The Founders aim to have 50,000 property listings by 2023 in the BookBySlot network. "Alongside, we want do a gross booking value of USD 50 million and have 500,000 travellers using the platform in India and around the world."

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