BANGALORE, June 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
- Over 1000+ Curated Activity-based Travel Packages Listed, Across all Regions of India
- Activities Starting From 1 Hour to 14 Days, Ranging From Rs. 100 to Rs 1.6 Lakh
- Partners With Over 100 Carefully Selected Aggregators & Agents to Create the Market Place
- Holidays Evolving From Destination-led to Experience-led
HolidayIQ, India's largest travel community and holiday recommendation engine, launches India's first ever mobile-only vacations marketplace 'Holidays', dedicated to activity-based leisure travel. The marketplace, incorporated within the HolidayIQ android mobile app, showcases 1000 plus activity-based packages and allows travellers to customize their holiday using various filters including: budget, duration, vacation type and activity. The app also provides comprehensive itinerary details within each listed holiday package. The feature has various options ranging from day-activities of just 1 hour to offbeat, all-inclusive holiday packages of up to 15 days, with prices from Rs. 100 to Rs. 1.6 lakhs.
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Commenting on India's first ever mobile-only holidays marketplace, Hari Nair, Founder & CEO, HolidayIQ, said, "There are two major shifts in the way Indians plan holidays today. Over 70% of holidays planned on HolidayIQ are through mobile devices. Secondly, we are moving from destination-led holidays to experience-led ones. And so, we have aggregated the first ever mobile-only activity-led vacations marketplace. We have associated with some of the best players in the industry including Giftxoxo, Tushky, Exploita & Padharo to provide a vast range of experiential holidays for Indian travellers. People can also review all these holidays individually on the app helping other travellers plan better."
These vacations include over 1000 activities ranging from cycling to hiking, zorbing to river rafting, Bollywood-inspired walks to culinary trails. They can suit varied budgets starting with holidays such as '6-hour Vineyard trail at Grover Zampa Vineyards in Nasik for Rs. 400' to a '9-day holiday in the Andamans including swimming with elephants at Rs. 1.6 lakh.'
HolidayIQ.com is a premier holiday information portal powered by India's first and biggest travel community; enabling travellers to first discover numerous vacation choices, then plan holiday trips in full detail and finally, share holiday experiences with millions of other travellers.
One can download the app using http://www.holidayiq.com/mobile/app
About HolidayIQ.com:
HolidayIQ is India's largest travel community with over 30 lakh members from 80+ Indian cities and is India's first holiday planning website powered entirely by reviews, photos, videos and other advice generated from these Indian travellers. Currently, around 11 million Indian travellers plan their vacations on HolidayIQ.com every month of which over 70% activity is through mobile devices.
HolidayIQ.com is a VC-backed company (invested in by Tiger Global & Accel Partners) operationally headquartered in Bangalore, India.
HolidayIQ.com lists over 2000 tourism destinations and 50,000+ accommodation options (hotels, resorts, home-stays, jungle camps and serviced apartments) in India. All of which are bookable through over 1600 partnerships with leading online travel agencies like Makemytrip, Yatra and Expedia & offline players such as Thomas Cook, SOTC, etc.
HolidayIQ.com is not a travel agency, nor is it partially or fully owned by any travel agency, hotel chain or any other travel industry player. Therefore, HolidayIQ.com is fully independent and can provide travellers with truthful information not affected by any requirements to sell specific travel products.
For further details, please contact:
Nihal Shaikh
Manager - Public Relations & Community Initiatives HolidayIQ.com
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+91-9886630627
HolidayIQ
Perfect Relations
Akash Thakur
+91-7760118507
athakur@perfectrelations.com
Sindhu Rajasekharan
+91-9916103530
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