The travel industry has evolved and Indians are seen to be travelling not just to visit different places, but to experience diverse cultures & culinary. To serve the sprouting outbound travellers, TripXOXO is an online go-to destination.
“The portal offers fun-tastic activities & trips, interesting experiences and exciting deals with 5000 plus travel experiences, more than 35,000 trip ideas and 100+ activity categories”, says Heena Akhtar, Founder, TripXOXO.
The platform provides an array of distinguished support to travelers out of which transfer services at more than 2000 airports, hassle-free ticket bookings for amusements around the globe, local assistance with multi lingual support and more are available, all at the comfort of paying in INR.
Excerpts from an exclusive interaction with Heena Akhtar of TripXOXO:
Background of Promoter
As a travel enthusiast I founded TripXOXO in 2015 as a go to destination for travellers looking for fantastic activities & trips, interesting experience and exciting deals.
Prior to TripXOXO, I have founded TravelPort along with Javed in 2002. TravelPort started as a small garage start-up, which has today grown to become one of the leading offline travel agency in India. Being wanderlust at heart, I have travelled across the globe to experience different destinations and culture, my favourite being London, Berlin, Boston and Rome. My success mantra is ‘schedule, prioritise, empower, trust yourself & let go’.
The initial period- the challenges & the ecstasy of quick wins!
Challenges have to be part of every journey as your learnings are derived from the same. Getting a team who has a same drive for creating a unique business proposition, scouting for what you are promising to your customers, engaging with them and creating community of individual travel experts on our platform were few of the challenges and achievements in short.
We have been building a strong community of travellers. On an average our portal receives over 5000 plus unique visitors each week looking for unique travel experiences. Over last couple of years we have been privileged to handle journeys of more than 4 million travellers and look forward to handling many more. Our legacy and strong partnerships across the globe make sure your holiday is in good hands and get the best of the experience. TripXOXO recently bagged the prestigious ‘Excellence in Online Travel Booking Site B to C’ Award at SATTE Awards 2017 – which is India’s leading travel Exhibition & Awards.
The journey so far!
Journey so far was challenging and of great learning, working on a TripXOXO has boosted my confidence to the next level, we promise in providing unique experiences and for that you have to really work hard towards scouting such locations, activities, places which are not commonly ventured by travellers and keep adding new things.
Strategic Alliances & Partnerships
TripXOXO is a part of TravelPort Holidays India Pvt. Ltd is India’s leading leisure travel marketing and services company .Travel Port specializes in leisure travel packages within India and across the world. The Company works with more than 350 companies and 30 affinity programs to reach out to more than 10 million customers of which 400,000 have enjoyed its hospitality.
The future, as you see, 3 years from now in terms of scope & scale of your business enterprise
We see TripXOXO as a default reference site for all travelers from India planning their vacations. Also, we see a very strong presence in UAE. We hope and aspire to be largest activity sales company in Indian subcontinent by volume and customer base crossing sales over 500 crore annually.
Key moments of reckoning in business life
We have been tagged the best B-C travel site in India by Satte, which is an absolute institution in travel trade, and this gives us a great push in believing even more in the project and the company. We currently offer over 15000 experience in over 70 countries, and are adding more every week.
The feelings on getting the first big order / contract for your company
I was super excited. The big order was tenfold larger than we expected and that was reinforcement in our belief in the model and the business.
