Go Skydiving or Trekking to 13000 feet this Diwali by Tushky.com

Tushky.com, a state-of-the-art ecommerce web portal providing unique travel and event experiences, is coming up with a big experience for all ardent adventure lovers.

True to its vision of providing never before experiences, Tushky.com has announced its extravagant diwali vacation, in line with promoting green diwali- authentic skydiving camp in India followed by a trek to the 13000 ft high beas kund in Himachal. When the festival of lights is around the corner, celebrating a Green Diwali near to the Mother Nature without crackers is a unique idea.

After the super success of its first commercial skydiving camp in picturesque locales of Sagar in MP and setting a record of the youngest tandem skydiving, Tushky.com proudly presents second skydiving camp in UP and trekking unfolding the magical experience at Himalayan Valley. Trekking alongside the beas river and stunning landscape with soaring mountain, one will finally reach the breath taking destination Beas Kund.

Mr.Talvinder Singh, founder of Tushky.com shares “What differentiates us from other large companies is our ability to reach and appeal to small and independent tour guides and individual who will share their beautiful world with the travelers.” He adds “This adventure aims to go beyond the limits of your fear and spend a gala time living a life amidst of nature. Go back to mother nature, there is no better way to celebrate green diwali.”

Tushky.com's diwali celebration begins with the sky diving camp, starting from 22nd October to 25th October 2011 at Uttar Pradesh. The three day camp ensures, to provide a life time experience of skydiving from 10000 feet. The event is partnered with seasoned and celebrated skydivers having a collective experience of almost 50 years and over 8000 jumps with highest rated USPA (United States Parachute Association) certification. The celebration continues with a 7 day all inclusive trek, taking you through a route rarely explored while also allowing you the leisure to explore the pristine tourist hot spot from its starting station-Manali. During the trek you will luxuriate in vast area of green carpet with colorful flowers which goes through Solang Valley’s lush-green fields and orchards.

Tushky, a young and passionate start up by IIT Alumini, believes in taking home a memory and cherishing them life long. It’s a one stop solution providing experiences like Adventure and outdoor; art and culture; leisure and entertainment; wining and dining; mind and body rejuvenation and many more at spectacular places across India.

To be a part of this unique experience and celebrating Diwali with Nature, log on to www.tushky.com

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Tushky : For Exciting Experiences in Travel and activities.

Are you a travel freak? Do you love traveling but never have the time to plan and arrange your trip? Or you are not able to find out interesting places to go, interesting things to do.

GeekOnNet is showcasing another hot Indian startup (Tushky.com) that will take care of planning and arrangement of your trip to make it memorable and adventures. Tushky, an online marketplace to buy, sell or promote exciting travel experiences or experience related activities, in Mumbai and nationally, to provide an alternative to the impersonal approach of large tour companies and legacy travel agents.

Tushky is founded by a team of IIT Bombay, alumni:

Tushky is a hub for any experience-seeker to connect with local experience-provider and vice-versa. Tushky is for travelers who will love to live through the experience instead of just looking at it. The "been there, done that" era of fleeting visits to famous sites is well and truly over - travel virgins excepted. The modern traveler wants to take home a memory, not a memento.”

Tushky works only with a pick of providers, who can offer the best experience in their domain. Each experience is authenticated before putting them online; hence the buyer is sure of the quality of the experience.

“We added activities in our bouquet of products since, travelers are active 14 hours a day, but typically spend only six hours with the primary lure or attraction (the primary reason for visiting). That leaves an additional 8 hours for secondary activities or diversions. What is there to do after 5:00 pm? Downtowns can fill this role: providing entertainment, events, shopping, dining, etc. in a pedestrian-friendly setting.” Mr. CEO adds.

By providing a user-friendly platform, with a built-in community to promote the experiences across Facebook, twitter and Gmail, the team believes that, they will be able to claim a substantial stake of the $26.7 billion activity and experience market, which this year has become the fastest growing segment of the leisure travel market (with revenues surpassing those of cruises and car rentals combined). Tushky’s goal is to become the largest destination for travel experiences and activities worldwide, with an initial focus on Mumbai, where they plan to grow organically as local experts add their tours and experiences and from there, branch out nationally and internationally.

“Travel has seen tremendous innovation in flight and accommodation booking, especially with sites like Hipmunk and Airbnb disrupting the industry,”

“But once these reservations are booked, travelers still rely on old-school (and costly) guidebooks, travel agents, and large tours to plan their itineraries. It’s the blind spot of the travel industry.”

Tushky makes money by taking a percentage fee from those offering experiences (“local experts”). It anticipates additional revenue streams coming from affiliate partnerships with companies offering flight and accommodations, which would also provide their users with a fun and easy way to plan a trip they feel good about in just a few clicks.

Tushky is entering a market dominated by Makemytrip, cleartrip, Travelocity and other online travel agencies that have added activities to their offerings, as well as popular travel guide, The Lonely Planet, which has been expanding its online presence and recently added activity booking to their site through the large tour aggregator, Viator.

Mr. CEO says “What will differentiate us from these larger companies is our ability to reach and appeal to small, independent tour guides and individuals who want to share their world and expertise with travelers while making extra cash, as well as to travelers who have lost trust in existing industry platforms and crave more authenticity in their travel experiences. Further, we are bullish about the promotion feature on our site. We are very tightly integrated with social networking sites, because we believe that people love to share and brag about their experiences and expeditions”.

“The large OTA’s are not concerned about providing the unique, backdoor experiences that many travelers want,” says Mr. CEO. “That’s the market we’re trying to address first.”

Tushky.com
11/43, Yeshwant Nagar, S.V. Road, Goregaon(w) - 62
Phone– 022 28714472/3
Info@tushky.com

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