Travel Union, India’s first rural B2B travel tech platform, was launched recently. Travel Union is an initiative by Bollywood actor Sonu Sood. This platform aims to democratize travel services by providing a platform to Travel Union members (travel agents) towards serving the travel needs of rural customers at every district, block, and gram panchayat level. This platform will give support, digitally empower and build a leading travel agent business community in rural India at zero investment.

The platform shows Travel Union Members the lowest prices they can offer their customers. It also allows for online cancellations and refunds, eliminating the long wait customers have to bear. The members enjoy the benefit of earning high margins due to direct booking options available with multiple travel service partners. Travel Union provides the best inventory, competitive prices, and state-of-the-art technology directly from airlines, railways, hotels, trips, wholesalers, and aggregators. The platform will give access to all trains operating in India through IRCTC, over 500 domestic & international flights, 10,000+ bus operators, and 10 lakh+ hotels to its members and consumers.

Travel Union will augment the income and growth opportunities for the existing travel agents, offer an additional and steady stream of income for small business owners, provide new business opportunities for the aspirational entrepreneur and create a network of reliable Travel Union Members (travel agents) to assist the rural consumers.

The onboarding of Travel Union Members will require zero investment from them and there is no recurring cost post onboarding either, lowering the barrier of entry. Also, it offers the lowest IRCTC agent ID purchase cost.

Travel Union is presently available in English and Hindi. It is soon to be launched in 11 more Indian languages. New and upcoming offerings on the platform also include domestic and international holiday packages, visa services, forex services, and travel/ luggage accessories.

Travel Union App is available to download on Google Play store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.travelunion.app