About reachgujarat.com


reachgujarat.com in P-P-P with TCGL (Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Limited) is a AAPNU Gujarat portal with a one stop solution for business, travel and tourism for local, national and international buyers and sellers, business and leisure travelers.
For more details: http://www.reachgujarat.com/aboutus.php, http://www.reachgujarat.com/media.php

reachgujarat.com provides exhaustive information on Gujarati business, culture, cuisine, shopping and tourism destinations in Gujarat. It is not just a travel and tourism portal but it helps in building up the on-line travel, tourism and business ECO SYSTEM of Gujarat.

 

The Need:

There is a requirement for a region specific portal which just talks about that region. May it be:

  • Tickets, local bus or taxi booking
  • Travel - Tour packages
  • Hotel bookings
  • Places to visit, weather, distances, road maps, social and cultural details, environmental conditions (City Guide)
  • Local cuisines, places to shop for local wares may it be retail stores, malls or even roadside shops, local fun and entertainment spots, multiplexes (City Biz)
  • Online shopping for regional stuff.

Any leisure or business traveler, a NRI, NRG, national, international or even a local visitor. All these regional information is highly required,
There is a strong need and want for a defacto regional site having all these facilities.

 
Why it is UNIQUE?
    • Building-up online ECOsystem for travel, tourism and business of a state.
    • It has tie-up with the Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Ltd  (TCGL)for building up online Ecosystem for travel-tourism and business
    • It is being promoted by TCGL  as a defacto online booking portal of Gujarat in all its media campaigns, brochures, advt, leaflets, exhibitions and conventions. No other portal in India has such kind of tie-up
    • It has a tie-up with incredible India wherein all the properties and tour packages of reachgujarat.com would be also displayed at incredibleindia.org website
    • It has a CRS (centralized reservation system) for hotels, bus and taxi booking. It is a CRS. So real time booking and no need for rolling stock method of blocking 5 rooms which a normal travel portal does and so it cannot do real time booking of the next day and have to depend on calling up the hotel checking availability of the next day and then booking it. So it becomes a manual process. In our case it is a fully automatic process. No other portal has such kind of feature
    • Nobody in the whole Internet space (Internet world) has an inventory of even 150  properties (Hotels, Guest Houses, Dharamshalas) of Gujarat or as a matter of fact for any individual state. Whilst currently we have an inventory of 500 and soon we are planning to touch 1500 as in Gujarat there are approx 2000 properties according to the survey of GITCO.
    • It concentrates on budget hotels and dharamshalas where the bulk of tourism and business comes from middle class.
    • It is a travel tourism online mall so lots of choices of different tour packages with varied value propositions are there.
    • Coming up is an on line Itinerary creating engine which can help visitors to create their own itinerary instantly.
    • No tourism is complete without shopping, food, entertainment, fun. May it be leisure or business tourism.  So here we have city biz wherein all the details of malls, multiplexes,  retailers, restaurants are provided. No other portal has such kind of feature.
    • Last but not the least on line shopping of regional specific items  are also provided for those busy travelers or those who cannot visit but still want to shop No other portal has such kind of feature
    • It is just not just a B2C it is also a B2B. i.e. the feeds of the hotel properties, tour packages would also be provided to other travel portals, travel agents, cash card distributors who do on line bookings and to corporate as well
    • It's inventory is also put up on GDS (global distribution system of Amadeus,Sabre, Galieio, Worldspan) which again distributes it to 50,000 travel agents world over. No other portal has such kind of feature
    • It's inventory is also put up on IDS (Internet distribution system of travel portals like expedia, orbitz, travelocity, hotelz etc). This IDS connects to approx 100+ travel portals through Pegasus switch. No other portal has such kind of feature
    • One can find a few of the above features in bits and pieces.  But the bundling of all these with a regional flavor and having a tie-up with the State Tourism corporation with an idea to build up online ecosystem of travel, tourism and business in itself is very unique.
 
Rationale for considering the above as innovative
    •  Taking regional or state route and use it for developing online ECOsystem for travel, tourism  and business of a state.
    • Approaching the state with a PPP offer and become the defacto on line booking portal for the state.
    • Leveraging on the promotions/media budget of the state for the promotion of this portal
    • Nobody has thought of putting up all the properties of a state online whilst currently we already have 500 properties online and moving towards putting up 1500 more.
    • No state or even any portal on the Internet space is regional specific having all the features like bus, train, plane, taxi booking, city guide, city biz, online shopping, web2.0.
    • Being a travel tourism online mall is indeed innovative.
    • Bundling of the above features in itself is an innovation to meet the needs and requirements of the people.
 
Direct benefits to the public
    • It would be a one stop solution for all the travel-tourism needs of a traveler as well as information seeker
    • Direct online access to region specific 500-1500  properties for booking.
    • It is like a regional travel-tourism mall so they would have lots of options to choose the travel-tour packages as well as immensely benefit by getting most competitive  prices.
    • Those busy travelers or those who cannot visit but still want to shop would greatly benefit from the online shopping of regional specific items facility.
    • Get social, cultural, weather, road map, distances and other allied regional specific information.
    • Facilities of WEB 2.0 i.e  blogs, reviews, ratings, upload/download of audio tours, video tours, Sharing of photos, Screen savers, posters etc
    • Features coming up are Last minute deals, Reverse auctions, discounts.
 

Brand reachgujarat.com You would find reachgujarat's presence everywhere


gujarattourism.com


vibrantgujarat.com


nri-gujarat.com


gujaratuniversity.org



incredibleindia.org

Coming Up
reachgujarat has a strategic tie-up with Incredible India

SERVICES AND FACILITIES

Hosting and development of the portal

On line Payment

24x7 Call center

Local Brands going Global

Tour Packages Reservation

MIS at your finger tip

On line Chatting

On line Shopping

Make my own Itinerary

SMS confirmation

Travel & Tour information

Last Minute Deals

On line Reservations

Tour Packages

Blogs

Reverse Auctions

Agents on line booking facility

Feeds to be given to National -n International portals

Surfers ratings

M Commerce

Integration with Global Distribution System- GDS (Galileo, Amadeus, Sabre, World span)

Integration with Internet Distribution System- IDS thru pegasus switch (Travelocity, Expedia, Orbitz)

Traveler's Ratings

Web 2.0

       

SUCCESSFUL PILOT - LAUNCHING OF REACHGUJARAT.COM



ROAD MAP

This is a pilot project. We have already initiated talks with Govt and Tourism Corporations of different states in India to replicate this model.