Travel made simple: Economic Times

Must See India was featured in High Flier section of Economic Times yesterday (Nov 10, 2009). The story Travel Made Simple documents the journey of 3 entrepreneurs and articulates how www.mustseeindia.com is making life simple for travelers.

Some quotes from the article:

When people are planning their holidays, they want to plan it properly, knowing as much before they hit the road .... This hunger for information is good news for start-ups as they have a growing set of people who want to avail their services.

We try not to reinvent the wheel... We take the best offering out of the market and integrate it ... to provide a seamless offering, which helps travelers to get the maximum value of the time they spend in planning. This is what differentiates us.

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To read the entire article, hop onto http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/et-high-flier/Travel-entrepreneurs-cashing-in-on-tourism-growth/articleshow/5213942.cms

Website for lost & found items at Indian airports

Have you ever lost any item on an Indian airport ?

If yes, here is a website for lost & found items at airports in India

http://www.cisf.gov.in/airports.htm

It is very easy to forget your laptop/phone or other hand baggage at the security check. You can find such lost items here. A good effort by Ministry of Home Affairs for air travelers in India.

Note - The site works well in all browsers except Firefox. Firefox users will have replace any '\' (backslash) in the link URLs with '/'(forward slash).

Keeping an eye on Swine Flu (H1N1)

Since Swine Flue (H1N1) has been spreading fast in India, we thought it was important to keep our visitors informed of its status in India. We're maintaining a Swine Flu status page through which you can track travel advisory for India.

Let us keep ourselves informed and not spread the panic. It is curable. Government needs our help to get it under control. Let us play our part and kill this menace.

Photo: http://newshopper.sulekha.com/topic/slideshow/swine-flu/874793.htm

Madhya Pradesh Tourism ads

It's good to see state governments in India promoting tourism. After launching the Bioscope ad 3 years back, Madhya Pradesh Tourism Department have come up with the Eyes ad.

Interestingly, the first ad invited tourists to come and ‘see’ Madhya Pradesh, while the second ad narrates the tourist’s tale after he has visited the place. The creative idea for the new ad was, quite literally, taken from the word ‘sightseeing’.

Check out the cool ads:

1. Bioscope

2. Eyes

Source: afaqs

Incredible India commercial

The latest Incredible India commercial. Awesome!

Source: Amnigos

Must See India interviewed by yourstory.in

“Travel should be about fun; not logistics and unending planning. We want to put back the fun in travel and hence envision to create a platform where travelers can come together, share their experiences, help each other” enthuses Karan adding that their future plans include new features to help realize their target of a million visitors per month by the end of 2010.

Check out must see india team interview by yourstory.in

Must See India on KillerStartups

KillerStartups has reviewed Must See India.




Roger posted a question for us -

Is the site open to user contributions - IE, guides, reviews and the like?

As I mentioned in the comment, user engagement is one of our core focus. We have user reviews on most of the pages. We are adding new features to get user opinions in even more helpful way. We'll be rolling the updates in current month. Stay tuned!

Seven Wonders of Karnataka

NDTV has just unveiled 7 wonders of Karnataka based on the user polls. Here's the list:

7. Halebidu
6. Belur
5. Srirangapatnam
4. Caves of Badami
3. Gol Gumbaz
2. Hampi
1. Shravanabelagola

The list of nominees is here, and here's the video about each of these places:

Great to see promotion of Karnataka Tourism and discovery of all these great places by media.
Keep Travelling!

Wow! That's fast

The biggest challenge we see in today's world web applications is to show lots of information while keeping the site high speed and handle the load as the traffic increases. With the amount of traffic, information and features ever increasing on mustseeindia.com, we do have our share of performance issues.

Not for long. We are proud to say that our users would now notice significant speed improvements when browsing mustseeindia. We are also proud to say that we have had zero downtime in the whole month of December last year, which has been the biggest month for us in terms of traffic.

One last thing. Although mustseeindia works perfectly fine on all major browsers, we recommend firefox. Because we believe it is the best and safest browser available today.

Bookings are live now!

In our quest to become one stop solution for travel in India, we are pleased to announce hotel, bus and flight bookings at Must See India. With this, you can
- Book hotels online in even the smallest of destinations at very reasonable prices.
- Book buses online in even remote places in India.
- Book flights across India on all airlines.

We would like to thank our partners - Inasra, RedBus and MakeMyTrip.