India Hotel Review presented a unique travel platform for Inbound / Domestic segment bringing Social Content (QnA / Reviews), Editorial Content (Travel Guides / Travel Articles ) & Transactional Content (Hand picked Hotels & Tours) on common grounds making it Content enriched yet effective travel planning tool over the web.
IndiaHotelReview.com was India's fastest growing Online Travel Company with an exclusivity of Hotels and Packages for widest range of destinations in India. In parallel IHR was also a thriving travel community and a very strong content platform displaying best decision enabling content for its audience. IHR spectrum of operations was intertwined across India covering more than 10000 hotels spread at more than 1100 destinations. In addition IHR also offered more than 1000 packages.
IHR became an organic powerhouse with its superlative content horizontally covering length and breadth of India, Innovative Technology and Product, and Disruptive Operations with Customer Service. The startup came in age of early Internet boom in India making travel digital and scaled organically till April 2012 over span of 5 years. It was an independent business vertical co-founded by Ankit Rastogi part of Vriti Infocom, Noida launched by Swapnil Shrivastav in late 2006.
In May 2012 IHR's key management team including Ankit Rastogi became part of goibibo (Ibibo Group, Gurgaon) shouldered with responsibility to build Hotel business of goibibo. IndiaHotelReview.com suspended its operations as a result and eventually closed with Vriti shutting down by late 2012. This website revival is to show case the startup story of IHR and its dream team who scripted this magical journey for the global tourism fraternity purely as an inspiration.
India Hotel Review - Awards & Recognition
- IndiaHotelReview.com an Online Travel portal nominated by Tata Nen - 2007 - IHR aka India Hotel Review an Online Travel portal based at Noida is just nominated by Tata Nen as among the most promising StartUps, making it eligible for The TATA NEN Startups Awards. TATA NEN Startups Awards is the first ever people's choice Awards for recognizing the highest-potential startups in India.
- IndiaHotelReview bags 'Best Travel Site' Web Award - 2008 - IndiaHotelReview.com or IHR as popularly known, India's leading online Travel community cum hotel booking portal just got the coveted award for the best travel website of 2008. The award is presented by MetrixLab a reputed Europe based global Online Market Research company
- And the Hottest Indian Ecommerce Startups, Esparks of 2011 - IndiaHotelReview as a startup was chosen by a panel of judges and represent the next crop of promising ecommerce related startups from India.
Press Release - India Hotel Review IN NEWS
- IndiaPRwire - Cumulative PR's of IndiaHotelReview.com
- SBwire - IndiaHotelReview.com Launches First Metro Specific Website on Delhi - November 25, 2009
- PRlog - Press room of IHR
- PR.com - IHR Launches Tourist-Friendly Maps in Its Website - June 14, 2009
- Pressexposure - Press Releases By IndiaHotelReview.com
- Techcircle - Vriti looking to spin off IndiaHotelReview.com -
FOUNDING TEAM & KEY MEMBERS
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The India Hotel Review founding team along with other co-founders are working on various capacities to build a quality Hospitality service Industry in India.