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 packages! Go to
Travel Buddies |
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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 enthusiasts. Go to Event Calendar |
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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. Go to
Rewards |
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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 party.
Go to Travel Help Desk |
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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. Go to Community |
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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