Intodia

Intodia is a travel platform built specifically for foreign travelers visiting India. It brings together everything needed to plan and take a trip independently — e-Visa, train and bus tickets, monument tickets, national park permits, a UPI-based travel wallet, and a marketplace of vetted local operators (guides, private hire, community tour operators). There's also "Ask Intodia," an AI assistant built on verified India travel resources. Intodia is for young, independent travelers planning their own India trip instead of booking a package. These people are stuck without a system built for someone unfamiliar with India: which train to book, which bus to take, what operator to trust, how permits actually work. In 2024, 9.9 million foreign travelers landed in India facing this, with nothing built end-to-end for them. Building this because India's tourism systems don't work for outsiders. They are confusing, scattered, and don't translate to foreign travelers. I have spent time in India's travel space before, including running an earlier travel startup, and this gap was always there — travelers confused by the system, overpaying, guessing, or relying on a stranger who has no reason to treat them fairly since they'll likely never see them again. India is also a market the government is actively trying to grow, targeting 25 million foreign arrivals by 2030. We wanted to build the thing that actually makes navigating India easier for foreign travelers.