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Create Online Travelogues to Save and Share on TravelToolSet

Shrirang Joshi, Director at TravelToolSet, helps travelers plan and create online travelogues so that they can keep all their travel plans in one handy space.

It was the constant struggle to keep hotel bookings, price points and air tickets in one place that had Shrirang working away at creating an online platform to organize it all. Shrirang is part of the Travel Massive Mumbai chapter and has answered a few questions we had for him about starting up a travel tech website.

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TravelToolSet helps to provide the appropriate resources to plan a trip, down to the nitty gritty details. If there are others joining you on your excursions, you can also share the itinerary with others. There are also a few other handy hacks on the TravelToolSet website, including:

  • Function to estimate cost of trip
  • Function to find out places of interest around your destination
  • Function to connect your Picasa photo album to your travelogue to share with other travelers afterward

Shrirang, who is your startup for?

TravelToolSet is a travel planning platform for anyone who needs to plan travel for any reason – commercial or non-commercial. The community features are already launched and commercial features are provided through subscription.

How did you build your startup?

Purely out of passion. Our team at TravelToolSet are all IT professionals who have worked in the travel industry prior to joining our force. We started building a travel planning platform and then started thinking about the business model after it was ready.

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What is your goal? What do you hope to achieve with TravelToolSet? 

Our goal is to empower free individual travelers with a tool to design and book, in principle, any itinerary in the world. We are getting there, but, not quite there yet.

Travel Massive is about empowering change in travel. How is your startup changing the future of the industry or helping to make travel better? 

  • Empowering free individual travelers: We believe that richness of travel comes through the experience that you get out of it. Enabling more and more travelers to share their experience through actionable itineraries is probably one of the best ways to make travel experientially rich and that’s what we are trying to do by empowering Free Individual Travelers.
  • Enable service providers to tap into untapped markets: With the advent of the internet, the role of a travel agent is changing from travel expert to service provider. We are trying to enable the service provider community to tap the fragmented market of free individual travelers by giving them a platform to build their inventory of itineraries and scale up quickly by building new itineraries.

Do you have any tips for new entrepreneurs who want to create a successful startup?

Benefit from the experiences of other travelers, plan well and well in advance. We help you do that.

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Travel Start-Up is a monthly series that profiles unique online travel start-ups in the Travel Massive community around the world. You can connect with Shrirang and TravelToolSet on Travel Massive


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