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Love travel?
You can build a career in it.
(Even if you don't come from money.)

We train young Indians who want to enter the travel industry. We give them a tech platform that makes them look like a real business from day 1. We connect them with mentors who've actually done it, and suppliers who'll work with them. The whole point is making this accessible to people who'd otherwise be locked out.

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What we noticed

The travel industry has a problem letting new people in.

If you're 22, love travel, and don't come from a travel family, your options are not great.

Hotels mostly hire from hotel-management colleges, and those colleges cost lakhs. Tour operators want 3-5 years of "experience" before they'll even take an interview. To start your own travel business the traditional way, you're told you need ₹15-30L for an office, inventory, suppliers, brand identity, and a couple of years of cash to survive.

So most young people who love travel end up doing something else. They become engineers who Instagram their Goa weekends. Marketing executives who spend EMIs on annual treks. Sometimes the ones who can afford it start a YouTube channel.

But almost none of them get to actually work in travel. The industry quietly loses thousands of talented young people every year, and the people who do enter it are mostly the ones whose parents could fund it.

We're trying to change that. Not with a course, and not with motivational LinkedIn posts. We do it with a real platform that gets you operating like a travel business in 8-12 weeks, alongside real suppliers, real tech, and real mentors who run profitable travel businesses today.

And yet

Indian travel has never been this open to small operators.

If you're paying attention, this is genuinely the best window in 20 years to start something in this category. The reasons are below.

Direct bookings are growing faster than OTA bookings. Indian travellers, especially the younger ones, want to book with operators who feel local, responsive, and trustworthy. A 24-year-old WhatsApp-based DMC from Manali wins clients that Booking.com can't.

Niche tourism is exploding. Wellness, adventure, religious circuits, food tourism, photography trips, solo-women trips, sober travel: every niche has demand that the big OTAs can't serve properly. They're built for volume, not for "you and 8 friends doing the Hampta Pass next April".

A 10k-follower Instagram account can sell ₹2-5 lakhs of trips a month if the operation behind it is set up properly. The hard part isn't the audience anymore. The hard part is converting the audience without looking amateur, which is exactly where most young creators fall down.

Tech costs have collapsed. What cost ₹10 lakhs to build five years ago (a booking website, CRM, payment integration, WhatsApp automation) now costs almost nothing if you know what to use. We hand you the whole stack.

Suppliers want new partners. Hotels, DMCs, transport operators, and activity providers are actively looking for new partners with real audiences. They just don't trust strangers showing up with no track record. We solve that for you.

If you're between 18 and 30, have an Instagram, a phone, and 12 months to commit, you can build a travel business that pays you more than a salaried job within 6-12 months. Not a get-rich scheme. A real, taxable, growing business.

What you get

Everything you need to actually start.
None of the fluff.

Most "entrepreneur programmes" are 80% motivation and 20% content. This is the reverse. Here is what's on the inside.

Training sessionTraining
Pillar 01

Training that's actually useful

Not lectures. Not motivational gyaan. The real stuff a travel business needs to do every week.

  • Itinerary design: pricing, margins, what makes a trip sell
  • Client conversations: handling enquiries, objections, deposit asks
  • Supplier negotiation: rates, blocks, credit terms, payment cycles
  • OTA listings: Airbnb, Booking, MakeMyTrip, Agoda, Tripadvisor
  • Social media + paid ads that actually convert (not just reach)
  • Tax, invoicing, GST basics: what to handle vs. when to hire a CA

Taught by people running travel businesses today. Live workshops plus an on-demand library. Bring real questions, get real answers.

Tech dashboardTech
Pillar 02

A real tech platform, branded as yours

You don't build it. You don't pay enterprise prices. You don't run a "Viral Code-powered" label on your site. It's your brand, ours behind the scenes.

  • A clean booking website with your name and identity
  • Enquiry forms that feed straight into a CRM (so leads don't get lost)
  • Payment integration (Razorpay or similar, your account)
  • WhatsApp Business + templates so replies look professional
  • Email automation for booking confirmations and follow-ups
  • A dashboard that shows enquiries, bookings, and revenue at a glance

Setup happens in your first 2 weeks. You learn to use it as part of the training.

Mentor sessionMentors
Pillar 03

Mentors who've actually done it

Not influencers. Not life coaches. People running profitable travel businesses today, who remember what it's like to be at zero.

  • Monthly 1-on-1 with a mentor matched to your niche or city
  • Group calls with your cohort and rotating industry guests
  • Slack / WhatsApp peer community where your batch becomes your network
  • Quarterly review with us on what's working and what isn't
  • Direct intros to suppliers, partners, and clients in our network

Mentors include DMC owners, niche-tour operators, travel content creators, and our own team. They're paid to actually mentor, not to push you to upsell.

India destinationsSuppliers + Packages
Pillar 04

Suppliers + ready-to-sell packages

The single hardest thing about starting in travel is supplier trust. We've already done the work.

  • Pre-negotiated rates with hotels, DMCs, transport, activity providers
  • Ready-to-sell itineraries: Himalayan circuits, Char Dham, Kerala backwaters, Northeast, Ladakh, Goa, religious tourism, honeymoon, adventure
  • Customisable templates so you put your own flavour on each trip
  • Brand kit: logo system, IG templates, brochure designs that don't look amateur
  • Verified vendor list per destination so you're never sending clients to bad operators

You can sell your first itinerary in week 4 if you want to. Many travelpreneurs do.

Is this for you?

The fit check.

This works for some people and is a waste of time for others. Read this before you apply.

✓This is for you if

  • You love travel and have already done some of it (not necessarily international)
  • You're roughly between 18 and 30 (we make exceptions both ways)
  • You can commit 6-12 months of real focus to building something
  • You're comfortable on social media, or willing to learn fast
  • You can put in 4-6 hours a day, at least at the start
  • You don't have ₹20L sitting around (because then you'd start a hotel)
  • You can talk to people on phone / WhatsApp without dying inside
  • You're from a tier-2 or tier-3 city and feel left out of metros
  • You're done with the idea of waiting 5 years for someone to "give you a chance"

×This is not for you if

  • You're looking for a get-rich-quick play
  • You expect a salary on day 1 (this is a business, not a job)
  • You hate dealing with clients (this category is 50% client service)
  • You're not willing to face rejection (you'll get plenty in the first 90 days)
  • You want us to do the work for you
  • You can't commit at least 6 months
  • You think travel is glamorous (it's mostly emails, calls, and spreadsheets)
  • You're already running a successful travel business and just want our tools (we'll point you to our agency side instead)
The journey

From "I love travel" to
"I run a travel business".

Six steps. About 12 months end-to-end. We're with you at every one of them.

Step 01

Apply

A short form. Tell us about you. Not your CV, your actual self. Why you, why travel, why now.

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Step 02

Interview

30-minute call. We both decide if this is a fit. We say no to ~60% of applicants. That's the point.

02
Step 03

Onboard

Welcome kit. First 2 weeks of training. Tech platform set up under your brand. Mentor assigned.

03
Step 04

Train

8-12 weeks of structured learning, weekly milestones. By week 8 you've sold your first trip, or you're about to.

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Step 05

Launch

Your brand is live. Your platform is running. Your first paid clients are real. You're in business.

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Step 06

Scale

Month 4 onwards: growth, marketing, retention, hiring help. We stay with you through the first full year.

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Real travelpreneurs

What the first batches are saying.

Names and businesses changed below until we have full permission. Outcomes are real.

Cohort 01 · Lucknow
I was a B.Com graduate with no travel background and no connections. Eight months in, I'm doing ~₹4L a month in bookings, mostly Himalayan circuits. The mentor and the platform made it possible to look as legit as the established guys.
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Arjun, 24
Lucknow · Himalayan circuits + weekends
I almost didn't apply because I thought it would be expensive. The interview call alone changed how I think about this industry. I now run trips for solo women travellers across Northeast and Sikkim. I would not have figured this out alone.
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Priya, 26
Guwahati · Solo-women travel · Northeast
Six months ago I was a 21-year-old running a small Instagram about Kerala. Today I run a registered travel business that does ₹6-9L in monthly bookings for backwaters and Wayanad trips. Same Instagram. Different operation behind it.
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Niranjan, 22
Kochi · Kerala specialist
Straight answers

Questions we get a lot.

How much does this cost?
Investment details are shared during the application call. We've kept it intentionally low, because the whole point of this is making travel accessible to people who don't have a fat trust fund. We'll tell you the full number before you decide anything.
Do I need experience in travel?
No. We need attitude. Experience we'll give you. Most of our batch have zero industry background. Some have done their own trips, some have a small Instagram, some are just genuinely curious about the category.
Do I need to be in a metro city?
No. Tier-2 and tier-3 are often the better starting point. We've trained travelpreneurs from Patna, Indore, Jaipur, Coimbatore, Guwahati, and Lucknow. Indian travel demand outside the metros is huge and underserved. Local trust matters more than being in Bombay.
What's the real time commitment?
4-6 hours a day for the first 6 months. Less once you find your rhythm. If you can't commit at least 4 hours a day at the start, you probably won't get past month 3. That's not us being harsh, that's the reality of the category.
Can I do this alongside a job?
You can, but it's harder. Plan for at least 3 hours every weekday plus most weekends. Some of our travelpreneurs run this as a side business for the first 3-6 months, then go full-time once the income is comfortable. Be realistic about your bandwidth.
What if I fail?
Some people will. Most who fail give up between month 3 and month 6, usually because they didn't realise how much client conversation this involves. We don't refund the program fee if you stop, but we'll keep mentoring you as long as you're still trying. Failure is almost always quitting, not the category.
Who actually teaches?
Active travel business operators: DMC owners, niche-tour operators, content creators who've built real travel businesses, and the senior Viral Code team. Not full-time educators. People who closed a booking yesterday.
How big are the batches?
Small. We cap each batch tight so mentors can actually pay attention to you. If we accept you, you'll get real time with real humans, not lost in a 500-person Discord.
Ready when you are

So, do you want to actually do this?

The application is short. The call is 30 minutes. There's no hard sell. If we're not the right fit for you, we'll tell you straight (and probably point you to a better one).

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