OkTataByebye.com
is India's first online travel community.
This community is all about travel
in India and the best place for
travel enthusiasts to find and share
experiences and travel advice on
India. It enables travelers to capture
and share travelogues, photos, features
and recommendations with friends,
family and members. Reviews and
votes ensure that the information
is always up-to-date, useful and
remains transparent.
At OkTataByebye.com, we believe that travel information is about more than price
and star ratings - it is about the whole experience. You want to know what it
is really like there. You want information on the people, the culture, how to
get around, how to avoid problems, as well as suggestions for itineraries,
accommodations, dining and things to do.
We also believe that the best way to find out about a place is from someone
with similar tastes who has already been there.
So in late 2006, inspired by the
growing wanderlust of the Indian
traveler and his desire to share
(and read about others') travel
experiences, was launched
OkTataByebye.com
- an exciting new online community
that lets people like you to find
and share detailed advice and experiences
on places in India (or around the
world). And we make it easy for
you to connect to other travelers
who are just as passionate about
travel as you.
OkTataByebye.com lets travellers create personal travel blogs, or travel journals,
with detailed route maps, embedded photos and recommendations, and allows them
to easily share these with friends, family and others. Travel Blogs, written by
real travellers, are a proven source of trusted information for people
researching and planning a trip. Travel shoppers can then easily find this
travel information, including advice on hotels and restaurants, from
like-minded travellers.
Prominently featured on OkTataByebye.com
are Hotel Reviews
written by real travellers, first
person Travelogues,
Travel Photos,
and Videos, member
contributed Destination
Features and reviews written
by travellers, Event Calendar
plus travel related member Queries
& Answers.
A look at some of the offerings
on
OkTataByebye.com
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Hotel
Reviews: Traveller
reviews of hotels in India,
guest houses, home stays
and lodging available across
destinations in India feature
here. From small and personal
home-stays to the high-end
hotels, member reviews help
give an honest, balanced
and unbiased picture of
a hotel. Reviews by other
members and rankings keep
the content up-to-date and
transparent. If you're looking
for stay options in India/hotels
in India, there's a high
chance you'd find it here.
Go
to Hotel Reviews
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Travelogues:
Day-by-day, place-by-place
personal accounts of trips
and journeys by real travelers.
From the typical weekend
getaway to extended trips
these individual travelogues
are rich in practicality,
perspectives, information
and give great ideas for
trips and travel advice.
Go
to Travelogues
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Travel
Q & A: Travel
questions and their answers
asked and answered by members.
This is where the collective
knowledge of the OkTataByebye
travel community helps everyone
find real solutions and relevant
information on travel. Share
and find travel queries and
answers. Go
to Travel Q & A
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Picture
Gallery:
A picture gallery of thousands
of pictures of India taken
by real travelers. From personal
albums of friends and occasions,
to holiday destinations, people,
culture, landscapes - they
aim to capture the essence
and beauty of this fascinating
and multi-faceted country.
Go to Picture Gallery
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Travel
Buddies: The section
devoted to buddy travel, mostly
because we travel with friends.
Here's where you could search
for buddies for a trip you
put together, or join trips
you like. You could also put
out budget and time based
alerts for trips. A great
place for friends and families
to plan trips together or
to make new friends, to connect
and build your network. Talk
about custom travel and travel
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Destination
Features: On OkTataByebye.com these are compilations of places
(states, cities, towns and sometimes even villages covered as destinations) and
activities as experienced by travelers. These destination features cover must
see attractions, things to do, how to reach, stops on a walking tour, places to
eat, useful tips and also nearby tourist places that are a must visit. What's
more, Destination Features is a Wiki, which means you can add your own inputs
to an already existing destination feature.
Go
to Destination Features
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Event
Calendar: In
the OkTataByebye.com events
calendar here's where a member
can write about and share,
find or ask alerts to, the
multitude of events. These
might be of national, regional
or even local importance,
it does not matter as events
provide insights into the
culture, heritage, folklore,
influences and beliefs of
the people of the country,
state or region so they are
a must-experience for travel
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Rewards:
A small attempt at giving
back to and recognising the
positive efforts and contributions
of members. Listed here are
all the awards and accolades
that can be won by members,
a huge tally of goodies that
can be got by collecting activity
points and loyalty to the
community as well as exclusive
member benefits that add value
to members' travel experience
in terms of convenience and
knowledge empowerment like
travel guide, travel maps
and shared itineraries. Also
featured are member-only contests
that create and maintain a
competitive atmosphere within
the community. |
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Travel
Help Desk :The OkTataByebye.com
Travel Help Desk is a travel
redressal forum to resolve
your travel related complaints
with airlines, hotels or travel
agents in India. This Travel
Help Desk is a platform where
you can submit your travel
grievances to OkTataByebye.com
and reach an acceptable solution
after contacting and discussing
the problem with the concerned
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Community:
Members are the most important
part of OkTataByebye.com
and they form the OkTataByebye
Travel Community. Members
keep the community growing
and running. They add energy
to the space and their networking
interactions and involvement
keep the space both transparent
and credible and lend the
neutrality and honesty to
it.
The Community section on OkTataByebye.com is dedicated to members. Introducing
members to others not just as names and locations but as people - their likes,
dislikes, friends, awards, reward points, their contributions and activities in
the community, their areas of expertise, their hobbies and passions and even
their dreams and fantasies! Not only that, members can rate each other based on
their contributions to the community so that the best members are always
recognised and set forward as examples and their credibility respected.
An added benefit is that
members can create their
travel map and mark places
they have been to or planning
to and share it with friends
and fellow travellers. You
can also find out who else
is on OkTataByebye.com from
your city.
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OkTataByebye (OkTataByebye.com)
provides the best place for Indian
travel enthusiasts to share their
travel experiences and for people
to find relevant information on
travel and destinations from like-minded
travelers.
The majority of travel information sites currently available online, focus on
price, or volume availability, or provide very basic, generic and anonymous
information. In contrast, we saw a need to provide relevant, qualitative
information to travelers. OkTataByebye's rapidly growing community is proof
that we are fulfilling this need.
We bring you some of the best travel
stories, reviews, recommendations,
photos and trips from the OkTataByebye.com community
and also and also provide related
links for anyone who is passionate
about travel.
The real value of the site is in the honest, no-strings-attached travel talk
and unbiased advice that flows between member travellers - everyday people like
you and me. The content is dynamic and multi-person; therefore multi-faceted
and of interest to many. Member comments, reviews, review ratings and votes
ensure that it is always up-to-date, useful and remains transparent. So,
quality information is available when researching, planning and booking trips.
Unlike other travel information sites, social networking and information
sharing through - travel blogs, destination features, travelogues, shared
photos, travel buddies (trips) and hotel reviews among members - of
OkTataByebye's community of travel enthusiasts, provides travel shoppers with a
more personalised and informative experience than currently exists online.
So OkTataByebye becomes a common space where the conversation is all about
travel. Honest, no-strings-attached talk and advice on a click. A growing tribe
of travelers are looking for offbeat destinations, far from the crowds and the
noise. With your help, OkTataByebye would be the space to discover all those
places that are not on the radar and even reveal the new things to see and do
in touristy places too.
OkTatatByebye.com leverages blogging, picture and video sharing and social
networking to provide a more personalized and informative experience to both
travel enthusiasts and travel shoppers.
Enabled through Web 2.0 technology and tools - Members can create their
personal travel blogs, travelogues with journals and recommendations, route
maps, personal travel maps, unlimited photo galleries, recommendations on
hotels and places to stay, food and places to eat and in addition can also
share photos and videos in the picture gallery. Members can also save favorites
and rate, tag and comment on other members' experiences throughout the site.
OkTataByebye is and online travel community and travel information website that
that helps people plan trips through the insights and recommendations of
like-minded travelers.
To all travelers, wanderers, explorers,
backpackers, motorcycle nomads,
compulsive picture takers and all
other rolling stones out there OkTataByebye
is a good place to connect, share
and rest. Our vision is to become
the best site for relevant, detailed,
user-contributed travel information.
Do make use of it. Visit us at www.OkTataByebye.com
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