How This Startup Travomint Helps With Hassle Free And Best Travel Experience

• ByAyushi Ray     |    July 27, 2021

“I consider my journey as a marathon because it was full of hurdles and challenges” says Alok K.Singh, founder of Travomint in a heartful interview with Startup Story

Get, Set, Go !

“I always wanted to be a businessman and start my own venture, this is what encouraged me to do a Masters in Business Administration from IIPM Delhi,” says Alok K.Singh. He was raised in Darbhanga, Bihar and did his schooling from Holy Cross School. Later he moved to Bangalore for Graduation. It was solely his passion for entrepreneurship that helped him lay the foundation of Travomint.

Right after completing his masters he planned to establish a startup of his own. “I faced many hurdles and people were constantly discouraging me to do a job instead of wasting my parent’s hard earned money on establishing a new business.  While my class fellows were placed at prestigious organizations and were earning handsomely, I was saving every penny to build the castle of my dreams,” Singh recalls.

After years of strenuous working, Travomint is now recognised as one of the world’s best online travel service providers. It has also attained ‘The Prestigious Brand of India’ award hosted by The Economic Times for the year 2021.

Leading To The Foundation Of Travomint

The idea behind laying Travomint’s foundation is to provide leading edge and personalized travel booking experience to travellers around the US, UK and India. Their emphasis was to provide a service that is easy to consume for a novice, independent of its age or location. Their startup has a hybrid model that lets you book your ticket digitally or over a call without any hassles.

Singh explains, “All of us need a break from the hustle and bustle of our lives, we at Travomint offer ease of booking to travellers by providing constant assistance. ” To assist in the process, they  launched Travomint, and have been serving thousands of frequent customers and the list is increasing day by day. A variety of cutting edge technologies has been endorsed in Travomint’s interface that is why it is widely recognized irrespective of geographical boundaries

Launching The Company

 Travomint was established in the year 2016 with an intention to provide an effortless and accessible travel booking experience to travellers across the globe.  Their adherence to technology, ascertained to infuse the technological innovations in Travomint’s services. Their dynamic teammates are always updated with the latest technological advancements that is why a variety of cutting edge technologies have been endorsed in constructing our website, hence making it a user friendly interface.

Their strength lies in our dedicated human resource, as it is the only asset that contrasts a company from its competitors. The company closely abides by the latest technological innovations as it believes innovation is one of the puissant tools that can channelize the technological benison in fact-based routes to outshine among competitors.

Struggling Through The Pandemic

An unprecedented turmoil has been caused by the pandemic, due to which air travel got costlier as the minimum and maximum cap on fares across all bands have been proliferated. Travomint was on a wait and watch mode but our focus was constantly on the upgradation of services with better features.

They ensured that they provide their customers with the most affordable travel experience without making any holes in their pockets. To provide more cost-efficient deals the company collaborated with global travel search engines like  Skyscanner, Kayak, Jetcost, JetRadar, Wego and Momondo. We are now focussing on more such affiliations in order to  benefit a larger audience.

How Travomint Works ?

Travellers are no longer required to struggle or adjust their glasses while booking flights via complex applications. They can create itineraries from nearly limitless flight combinations. Travomint’s unique cutting-edge algorithms give out the best deals, services offered by us are upto 60% cheaper than our competitors.

Singh further sheds light on the matter, “We believe in providing first class and cost-effective services to its customers. Services offered by us are clear, and do not have any hidden terms and conditions. Our booking engine is the one among the most advanced booking engines that handles numerous bookings every year.”

Backbone Of Travomint – The Team

There is always a tremendous team behind any successful startup as effective teamwork runs a business. Teamwork maximizes all round development and helps every individual to gain a better experience by learning new skills.  They have seasoned professionals with enormous experience in the Travel industry.

They have a team of determined professionals who forerun an advanced approach towards bolstering pocket friendly flight tickets along with outstanding services. Their customer service experts help customers to search and make hasty bookings as per their itinerary. All of their employees understand the importance of coordination and cooperation and they do follow so to aptly maintain the workflow.

Maintaining A Healthy Work Environment

 An average person spends 90,000 hours of their life at work, which is a lot of time on the clock. It gives employers a good reason to maintain a healthy work environment. Travomint makes sure that our team members spend time in a positive environment as it will shape their mindsets in a variety of ways and contribute to their personal and professional growth.

An unhealthy work environment increases the stress level of the team members. Workers subjected to such environments get sick more often and are unable to perform well. We assure that our employees get a healthy workplace and interact to promote healthy actions and behaviours to keep everyone safe and well.

 Future Plans – Expanding The Horizon

With the customized itinerary option, they have moved one step ahead. Once a traveller searches flights and hotels on their website, they provide him/her with a list of options to choose from. Their curated content lets travellers take a call on the destination.

As of now they are serving 7-8 countries including the US, the UK, Caribbean, Canada, Dubai and India. The company is going to expand our focus on the type of features we list on our platform. From being a primarily flight booking service provider they have ventured into hotels, car rentals, etc.  They are now looking forward to expanding their networking boundaries across 30-40 countries across the globe.

 Investment Status

 Travomint is a bootstrap company, it has been built from the ground up with nothing but personal savings, luck and cash coming from first sales. They had no outside cash or other support launches, only their parent’s blessings.

Bootstrapping is an arduous way to go, all the financial risk is on the company. And it let Travomint experiment more with the business as there is no pressure from investors. They are not planning to raise funds for the venture from any outside sources. “I believe that the dream of building your own business ends when you take business investors, as they can claim their ownership and have a voice in key decisions. This prohibits an entrepreneur from setting up its own strategies,  goals, milestones and pace,” said Singh.

The Customer Experience

 The Covid-19 pandemic has been a challenge for their business. Millions of people lost their jobs, and the travel and tourism sector significantly dropped worldwide. Aviation has a huge contribution to economic growth, the impact of the pandemic on the aviation sector is the worst.

Due to frequent flight cancellations their incoming cash flow dried up and they faced financial crunch while processing refunds for cancelled flights. Then they had to minimize their internal expenses and hire industrial experts in different domains to strategize things accordingly. However with their team work, resumption of operations as well as a steady increase in demand for air travel, their incoming cash flow augmented.

Advising Future Entrepreneurs

“As first generation entrepreneurs, my brother and I faced many challenges over the years to establish Travomint. Like any new organization, Travomint too has emerged from several crises but our dedication and the passion never botched us. I would suggest every entrepreneur to find visible ways to demonstrate their willingness to serve the company. He/she should find creative ways to inspire confidence, share his experience with his team members in order to motivate them and improve their credibility in a noticeable way. It is very important to set and deliver objectives as they will go a long way towards establishing momentum and lifting team performance,” says Alok K. Singh, founder of Travomint.

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