Tripoto : This startup lets travelers share their tales, itineraries, and more.

Those bitten by the travel bug always have a lot of tales to tell. Stories of serendipity, of the best-laid plans going awry, of the exquisite pleasure of discovering a whole new cuisine, and so on. Delhi-based startup Tripoto lets them share their travel experiences, post itineraries and stories along with pictures, maps, and reviews.

Tripoto focuses on the travel planning/inspiration stage of a trip. In Tripoto, people can write their travel stories in a structured format – trip summary, type (nature, backpacker etc), cost, duration, detailed itinerary, and pictures.
Website users will be able to send a message (inquiry) to the author of a travel story. This way, the author becomes a tour guide as well. The company is aiming to create a bank of trip itineraries for people to get inspired to travel.

There are so many great travel stories out there, scattered around the web. Tripoto aims to collect these stories on a single site for easy search and discovery. Each story is presented with a user-friendly interface so amateur travelers like me can easily understand and use them as tips for my own holiday. Another hook for Tripoto is that it has persuaded some celebrities and respected travelers to write about their own voyages. Anirudh Gupta, the co-founder of Tripoto, put the idea to numerous influencers, and quite a number were keen to inspire other travelers by sharing their experience too.
These sharers include Ayushman Khurana (Bollywood actor), Matthew Crompton (winner of a Solas Awards for travel writing), Dhritiman Mukherjee (wildlife photographer at National Geographic), and Zomato’s Pankaj Chaddah. Their stories are published in series every three to four days.

Tripoto solves the following problems:

For travellers – instead of searching for information across multiple blogs and spot based recommendations, a traveller on Tripoto can go through detailed and thorough itineraries of fellow travellers, experts and guides. They can filter their search based on personality type, interests, duration and cost. If they really like a trip, they can even connect with the traveller that created the trip.
For travel bloggers and sharers – Tripoto leverages technology to provide tools that enable sharing of itineraries and stories in an easy and beautiful way (either privately or publicly). Tripoto also serves as a platform wherein travellers can create a beautiful travel portfolio, expand their reach and build their personal brand.