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India.com launches travel guide iTripTo

India.com, a joint venture between Mail.com Media Corporation and Zee Entertainment Enterprises, has launched a travel information lookup platform called iTripTo. This platform is essentially a revamped version of India.com's travel section which was previously a travelogue. iTripTo, which is currently in beta, is a travel guide that provides users information for Indian destinations across categories like hill station, beaches, weekend getaways, adventure, nature, deserts, religious, historical, islands, leisure and wildlife among others. Users can also search for their preferred place to view more detailed information on it. India.com COO Sandeep Amar told Medianama that they are currently focusing on aggregating content with a target of covering 2000 Indian destinations over the next few months. Mobile apps for iTripTo are also in the works and are expected to launch by this fiscal. Amar said the focus is currently on Indian destinations, although they do plan to provide travel information on neighbouring countries like UAE and Sri Lanka among others in the future. iTripto is also in the early stages of integrating destination discovery and trip planning tools on the site, however there is no specific information on when these tools will be rolled out. Amar said that the site doesn’t yet have the required data volume to roll out these tools, however they are currently working with an undisclosed "well-known company" to integrate actionable travel data on the site. Competition: iTripTo’s main competitor will be TripAdvisor India, which in terms of volume of data about Indian travel destinations is way ahead of most other online travel info search & discovery platforms. There is…

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