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Available in
  
English

Alexa rank
  
14440 (February 2015)

Type of site
  
Travel website

Revenue
  
3 Crore (FY 2012–13)

Commercial
  
Yes

Thrillophilia httpslh3googleusercontentcomcbyUx6YQAgAAA

Owner
  
Chitra Gurnani and Abhishek Daga

Slogan(s)
  
Tours and Activities Simplified

Motto
  
Tours and Activities Simplified

Profiles

Tedx meet ceo and co founder chitra with thrillophilia


Thrillophilia is an Indian Tours and Activities company headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was founded by Chitra Gurnani and Abhishek Daga in 2011. In its initial years, Thrillophilia focused on online sales of adventure tours but it later expanded to being a marketplace of tours and activities across Asia.

Contents

The corporate outdoor and experiential learning model adopted by Thrillophilia in its early days, has proven to be of great significance since it was fairly new concept in India.

Wild monsoon adventure at coorg with thrillophilia


History

Thrillophilia was founded in 2011 by Abhishek Daga, alumnus of the IIT BHU and Chitra Gurnani alumnus of the Indian School of Business and DA-IICT. Initially they used word of mouth and Digital marketing to popularize their company. A few months later, the company sold its trip to Ladakh on Thrillophilia.com. Today, as per Alexa traffic rankings, Thrillophilia is among the top 20 Travel Web sites and has been credited with India's largest tours and activities company with more than 8000 tours on website. Thrillophilia claims to have had at least 70% growth every quarter since its founding. The company started with eco tours and experiential tours in 2011 branched out to selling corporate tours, activity honeymoon trips and weekend getaways. Further in 2012, Thrillophilia added wildlife getaways. As of today, Thrillophilia employs over 70 people.

Funding

Initially bootstraped with 1,500,000 Thrillophilia has since then twice raised funding from Angel funds.

Locations

The company's headquarters is located in Bangalore's HSR Layout neighbourhood. Thrillophilia has offices and customer service centers across India.

References

Thrillophilia Wikipedia