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Travel Startup Thrillophilia Announces Partnership with Tourism Authority of Thailand

Thrillophilia.com, India’s biggest online platform for booking 10,000+ activities and experiences, has tied-up with Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) to promote Thailand's most unique and off-beat experiences focusing on adventure, art, culture, and luxury. With this, Thrillophilia will also help in the overall efforts to promote Thailand as a value-for-money niche destination.

Thailand is one of the most sought after foreign travel destinations in India with Indians ranking sixth among nationalities visiting Thailand. With an estimated 50 million Indian tourists expected to travel abroad by 2020, Thailand is poised to have an increased influx of approximately 2 million Indian tourists in 2019. With this partnership between Thrillophilia and TAT, the objective is to allow these Indian travellers to explore the undiscovered parts of Thailand, beyond the Bangkok-Pattayacircuit to less popular and off-beat destinations such as Chiang Rai, Ko Samui, Khao Yai, Chiang Mai etc.

While working with TAT, Thrillophilia has brought more than 100 unique experiences online which are now available for booking on Thrillophilia.com. Travellers can discover and book experiences such as Flight of the Gibbon in Chiang Mai, Art in Paradise in Pattaya, Temple Tour in Chiang Rai, Death Railway in Kanchanaburi, Adventure at Khao Yai, Khao Sok tour and more. This partnership also seeks to encourage more Indian women travellers to travel to Thailand, by highlighting special experiences revolving around them such as culinary lessons, Muay Thai boxing classes, meditation in temples etc.

Further, to drive awareness about these activities and experiences among Indian travellers who are shifting focus towards offbeat and adventure activities, Thrillophilia is actively promoting the unique experiences on its online channels and also doing marketing and social media campaigns around the theme: “Experience Thailand Differently”.

Chitra Gurnani Daga, CEO of Thrillophilia said, “Thailand has been one of the safest countries to travel in Asia. Thai people are some of the most kind, gentle and welcoming people on the planet. We are quite excited with this partnership, and I am really glad that some of the best local experiences of Thailand will now be available in India to book before one actually travels. It is an Instagram world and Thailand, with its pristine beauty and unique experiences makes for a perfect choice for this generation’s traveller. We are also working on a series of videos to promote these experiences across different channels."

Addressing the partnership with Thrillophilia, Ms. Cholada Shiddhivarn, Director of Tourism Authority of Thailand Mumbai Office said, “In addition to the breathtaking beaches and gorgeous nightlife, which are already known. There is an abundance of experiences that Thailand has to offer to its visitors. As a destination, we want to reach out to the millennials who are constantly seeking for offbeat experiences and also adventure sports. Thrillophilia serves as an ideal platform to reach out to these digitally savvy audiences and help us influence their travel choice. Through this association, we are aiming to introduce and promote New Shades of Amazing Thailand to the new age Indian traveler”.

Thrillophilia gets Angel Investment of 200K USD from Hyderabad Angels

Thrillophilia, a Bangalore based startup has received an angel investment of 200,000 USD. Hyderabad Angels, iLabs Venture Capital Fund, Navlok Ventures and Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (IIM-A) have decided to buy an undisclosed amount of stake in one of the largest travel curators of the country -Thrillophilia. The startup has divested an undisclosed stake in an angel funding round for an amount more than 200,000 USD to Hyderabad Angels.

Instituted in 2010 Hyderabad Angels is one of the youngest though one of a fastest growing angel networks in India, established as a not for profit company that encourage high growth companies to get picked from angel investors for investments.

Thrillophilia is a 3-year-old startup into adventure travel space growing at 200% per year. Now the online portal has moved to a marketplace model of unique activities, experiences and things to do in India. These could be like snorkeling with elephants, bamboo rafting in Kerala, local village tour in deserts near Jaisalmer, royal walk in old city of Mysore, a week-long horse safari tour in Chambal valley or sea kayaking expeditions in Goa.

With more than 400 activity-based tours and 1,000 off-beat travel experiences on the portal -Thrillophilia, the startup plans to organize the tour and travel sector by curating these local activity providers and bringing them online on a marketplace dedicated to activities and things to do in the travel segment.In the last 3 years, Thrillophilia has served more than 50,000 travellers and 500+ corporate clients

The online portal, Thrillophilia.com was launched in August 2009 and the company has grown at an average rate of 200 percent per year. Headquartered in Bangalore, the company has its presence in 72 cities and alliances with 450 regional service providers. Thrillophilia curates and plans adventure and activity trips for corporate houses, international travellers and individuals throughout the country.

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