Anticipating the impact of technology, 13 years ago, TravelBiz Monitor introduced an industry-first live news portal, with hourly online reporting on travel, tourism, aviation and hospitality industries. Since then, we have created a niche for ourselves by providing analytical stories and statistical information to the travel trade on a regular basis. To keep this momentum going, the Editorial team has been showcasing new-age technology products and services every month that have the potential to disrupt the market further as the pandemic has further widened the scope of using technology.
For this unique initiative, TravelBiz Monitor has partnered with ‘Start-up Mentor Board’, a visionary platform with credentials in business, technology, e-commerce, digital market place, payment solutions and IT infrastructure, to highlight the stories of new-age technology ideas. Start-up Mentor Board has been set-up as an initiative to mentor and guide the travel technology driven start–ups and facilitate collaboration in the larger travel ecosystem.
Website – https://startupmentorboard.vgmrtechsolutions.com
The Board is spearheaded by well-known thought leader Ashish Kumar, who is also the Co-Chairman of FICCI Travel Technology Committee. It comprises Bharti Maan, who has led start-ups to scale rapidly; Patrick Richards, an experienced travel industry leader in the UK; Chetan Kapoor, an analyst with deep understanding of the travel and tourism business and trends; Kartik Sharma, an artificial intelligence practitioner; Karthik Venkataraman, a digital transformation & an e-commerce visionary; Jure Bratkic, who led innovative solutions in the USA and Kyasha Bhoola, with expertise and advanced insight into the travel industry across Africa.
*One can register for the SMB Program at
https://startupmentorboard.vgmrtechsolutions.com/form.html
Startup Name: Gabbit
Core Team: Vipul Jain, Vikal Kulshreshtha & Neeraj Sharma
Founding Year: 2017
Company Websites: www.gabbit.co.in
Product Description: Gabbit – A tourism technology company – solves underlying problems in the tourism sector by using a location-based virtual network of tourism stakeholders, information and intelligence.
It currently addressing 2 major challenges in Domestic tourism:
1. Tourist Safety –
• Tourists are new to the place, not much acquainted with the place & culture.
• Local Administration doesn’t have tourist information or location, restricting timely help. Things get more complex in case of disaster
2. Over tourism, Over-Crowd, Long Queues situation, Parking Unavailability, etc.
Gabbit uses technology, collaboration, tourism knowledge and intelligence to solve above issues. The system is successfully piloting in one of most complex tourism circuit – “Char Dham Yatra” (Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri & Yamunotri) in Uttarakhand, in association with Government & tourism industry. The System helps in –
(a) Tourist Safety –
System actively monitors entire Yatra route (1,200 km) w.r.t. various parameters such as Landslides, Road blockage, Weather conditions & alerts, Crowd & Queue situations, Medical emergency, accidents etc.
Based on threshold values, system generates warning & alerts to respective departments as per SOPs. Information relevant for public is also sent to tourists, hoteliers, tour operators etc. This works as effective “Public Address System”.
The System gets all this information from different sources including various government departments (like Disaster Management, Police), Tourism Industry and tourists.
Tourists interact with system using a “tourism” mobile app.
(b) Enhanced tourist’s experience by adding regional experiences such as home-stay, village tour, authentic Garhwali food, visit scenic places, hiking & bicycling, water sports etc.
