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THE TRAVEL TALK (The digital tour guide on Mobile Phone)

Recognized as one of the TOP TEN travel APPs of INDIA in 2022

According to the Experts’ predictions the Tourism industry was all set to bounce back after the Covid-19 set back; it may rather reach newer heights. The Gen-X is investing in gaining more experience in life-seeking happiness in physical and spiritual world, rather than in collecting fixed assets. Today information and knowledge is foundation to the imagination leading to the inner joy and satisfaction. The best way is to move around and see the nature’s beauty and the creativity of the human mind all over the world.

Also, the Mobile phone has become the most important tool in the hands of human beings irrespective of gender, age, place of stay-urban, semi-urban or rural. Further, almost every service is available on the Mobile phone, be it music, photo – video shooting, its sharing, games, sports, match watching and money transfers. That being so, why not a tour guide could be made available which can explain about the places of tourist interest, monuments and sub-monuments with authentic information and immediately, on real time basis!

“The Travel Talk” (ttt) has been set up with the objective of enhancing the experience of the travelers in India by providing well researched correct and authentic information about the historical, archaeological, social, cultural and spiritual importance of the places visited by a traveler along with the local flavor through an APP available on Mobile phones in your hand all the time. The APP provides information through photos/videos, audios and texts. If you havedownloaded the APP in your mobile, and opened it, it will start telling about the Monument where you are standing, as the phone knows your location. The APP is linked to GPS.

This App "The Travel Talk" provides today the services of a tour digital guide for the cities of Varanasi, Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Jammu, Srinagar, Mathura-Vrindavan, Ayodhya, Bhubneshwar-Pur-Konark, Madurai, Rameshwaram and Hampi for the present. The cities have been carefully selected as the Golden Triangle of Delhi- Agra-Jaipur has always attracted maximum number of domestic and foreign tourists. Varanasi in recent years has seen a great spurt in the number of tourists-Sarnath and Ganga Ghats attracting huge numbers. Similarly, Mathura-Vrindavan is very popular among the North-Western India. I propose to add more cities in the basket in phases.

In the Budget Speech of Feb, 2023 the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman asserted that Tourism will be promoted in “Mission Mode”. She said that” to increase footfall, a mobile app containing detailed information on physical and virtual connectivity, tourist guides, street food and security will be launched. We have already taken the initiative and launched the App by the name “The Travel Talk” in February, 2022 which is available on both Android and IOS. This App provides complete information about places of tourist interest and monuments in major cities.

The following activities are also there to support the effort:

• A book titled: “Varanasi-Banaras-Kashi” written by me which takes you to the ancient city of Varanasi through images and myriad details of each and every place in Varanasi, be it a temple, a Ghat, the Buddha’s Sarnath or landmark places of Jainism.


• YouTube channel by the name “THE TRAVEL TALK INDIA”. So far 35 videos have been up-loaded including a series of great men from Varanasi. After Varanasi, a series will be started on great men from Delhi.

The APP “THE TRAVEL TALK” has been recognized as one of the TOP TEN travel APPs of INDIA in 2022 by the SILICON INDIA magazine. They have published an Article in their December, 2022 issue on this APP.

The App which started its operation from 1st February, 2022 so far has been downloaded by over 5000 people.

Satish C Srivastava
CEO, “The Travel Talk”