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The Travel Planning Process

The Travel Guru custom travel planning + personal concierge process means that no two itineraries or experiences are ever the same. 

Discover Your Desires

I begin with a travel discovery consultation call , to get to know your travel goals and preferences.

Are you looking for a thrill-seeking adventure? Do you need a relaxing getaway to pamper yourself? Do you like staying in 5-star resorts or luxury holiday homes? Or perhaps you don't have time to plan a family holiday that will be fun for both the kids and adults?

I want to understand your travel dreams and desires as the first step in creating a successful and unforgettable trip. 

Design Your Dream

Once I've gotten to know you and your travel companions, I'll start to c urate your custom journey , including routes, destination guides, local experiences and things to see. 

Within an agreed timeframe, I'll send you your draft itinerary for you to review. 

I'll work with you throughout the entire process and will create an itinerary to match your budget and travel goals . 

Once the plans are finalised, I'll make all the bookings and confirm your travel details. 

I can also assist with visas, travel insurance, and any other special needs or preferences.

Experience the World

Before your departure, I will send you all of the details in a digital itinerary* outlining your daily schedule along with details related to your flights, hotels, tours,  reservation confirmations, contact lists, and more.

I will also offer you a pre-trip consultation to advise you on things to pack, self-guided tours, restaurants, things to try etc. 

You can travel at ease knowing that I am always accessible for inquiries or assistance along the way. I also provide you with 24/7 Global Emergency Assistance Line

Once you return, I'll check in with you to learn about the trip and gather feedback to ensure that your next trip is nothing short of extraordinary. 

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Travelguru is India's leading travel website, offering you the best prices on flights, hotels and holiday packages across India and the world. Travelguru makes planning and buying a holiday or a business trip easy and convenient.

Travelguru's current product offering consists of airline tickets, hotel rooms, vacation packages and cruises. We will shortly be expanding our services to offer a wide array of travel-related services including car rentals.

The Travelguru Advantage

The origins of Travelguru were rooted in 4 basic tenets that confront all of us travellers:

• Are we well informed of all our travel options?
• Have we had an enjoyable experience making our reservations?
• Are we confident we got the best price?
• Is it safe for me to provide credit card and other personal details to my travel planner?

Invariably, the answer to all these questions is No! At Travelguru we believe we can change this and this is how we do it:

• Transparency: We have no bias towards any hotel. We present you with all available options and you decide what the best option for you is. Also, our prices are inclusive of all taxes. What you see is what you pay for.
• Choice: We offer access to deals on 60,000+ Hotels in India as well as 4,30,000 Hotels Worldwide and the options continue to grow.
• Convenience: As a one-stop shop, Travelguru allows you to view all deals on a single website – www.travelguru.com . You can also call us on +91 92111 77444 (standard charges apply) between 8am-00.00am.
• Savings: We can offer you the best deals that are available thanks to various alliances we have entered into with leading hotels.
• Security: Travelguru understands your need to transact in a safe and secure environment. All your information, be it financial or otherwise, is protected using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology standards from Thawte.

Team Travelguru

Sanjeev manage the Travelguru B2C business, responsible for demand generation, site merchandising, on-site conversion, and achievement of topline growth, revenue and contribution goals. He has more than 8 years of experience in the consumer internet domain. He started his career with Onida in 2003 as a Product Head for DVD player category. After 2 of exciting years at Onida and an year long stint with Dupont as part of their leadership program (India10) he Co-Founded an online DVD rental company in 2006 and raised an angel round of $750 K.

Post 2 years in his start up he joined Naukri.com group in 2008 and led new initiatives for their matrimony business Jeevansathi.com. His last assignment was as a Business Head with Simplymarry.com (part of Times Group). At Simplymarry.com he was instrumental in growing the business and product metrics by 5X and created a new business model to take on big established competitors.

Sanjeev is a Mechanical Engineer from IIT Kanpur and did his MBA from IIM Lucknow.

Pearl leads the Human Resources at Travelguru and is responsible for the overall HR function including Learning & Development. With over 9 years of work experience across organizations like ICICI Lombard GIC, Kotak Mahindra Bank, IDBI Federal Life Insurance and Nielsen India, Pearl has spent time in all facets of HR and has been instrumental in setting up several innovative initiatives, processes & systems.

You can call us on +91 92111 77444 (standard charges apply) between 8am-00.30am. You can email us at [email protected] .

Sales inquires: Airlines, hotels, car rentals, vacations or cruise lines - If you have a travel product and would like to offer it through our website, write to us at [email protected] .

Feedback: We are always eager to hear from you. Send your comments, questions or suggestions to [email protected] .

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Definition of travel noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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• 2 travels [ plural ] time spent traveling, especially in foreign countries and for pleasure The novel is based on his travels in India. When are you off on your travels (= going traveling) ?
• have/take a vacation/a break/a day off/a year off/time off
• go on/be on vacation/leave/honeymoon/safari/sabbatical/a trip/a tour/a cruise/a pilgrimage
• go backpacking/camping/sightseeing
• plan a trip/a vacation/your itinerary
• reserve a hotel room/a flight/tickets
• have/make/cancel a reservation
• rent a condo/a vacation home/a cabin
• rent a car/bicycle/moped/scooter/Jet Ski
• stay in a hotel/a bed and breakfast/a youth hostel/a villa/a trailer/a vacation home/a resort/a timeshare
• cost/charge $100 a/per night for a suite/a single/double/twin room
• check into/out of a hotel/a motel/your room
• pack/unpack your suitcase/bags
• call/order room service
• cancel/cut short a trip/vacation
• apply for/get/renew a/your passport
• take out/buy/get travel insurance
• catch/miss your plane/train/ferry/connecting flight
• fly (in)/travel (in) first/business/economy class
• make/have a brief/two-day/twelve-hour layover/stopover in Hong Kong
• experience/cause/lead to delays
• check (in)/collect/get/lose your baggage/luggage
• be charged for/pay excess baggage fees
• board/get on/leave/get off the aircraft/plane/ship/ferry
• taxi down/leave/approach/hit/overshoot the runway
• experience/hit/encounter (mild/severe) turbulence
• suffer from/recover from/get over your jet lag/motion sickness
• be seasick/carsick
• attract/draw/bring tourists/visitors
• encourage/promote/hurt tourism
• promote/develop ecotourism
• build/develop/visit a tourist/tropical/beach/ski resort
• work for/be operated by a major hotel chain
• be served by/compete with low-fare/low-cost/budget airlines
• use/go to/have a travel agent
• contact/check with your travel agent/tour operator
• buy/be on/go on a package deal/vacation/tour
• buy/bring back (tacky/overpriced) souvenirs

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• travel light

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Synonyms & Similar Words

• connoisseur
• professional
• past master
• crackerjack
• cognoscente
• afficionado
• Renaissance man
• jack - of - all - trades

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• nonprofessional
• practitioner
• interpreter
• philosopher
• high priest
• grand old man

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guru noun [C] ( KNOWLEDGE )

Guru noun [c] ( religious ).

(Definition of guru from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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By the end of 2006, she realised that her book and fledgeling travel guide business needed her full attention, so she left her job.

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I can research hotels around the world without ever buying a travel guide , find out what other guests thought of them and book them instantly.

As well as acting as a travel guide , this covers all nature, you'll find plenty of food for thought here.

Oh, and lifeguards, and any sort of travel guide .

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Travel experts at The Vacationer released their 2024 summer travel survey results this week, giving an overview of what travelers can expect this summer season beginning on Memorial Day weekend.

The anonymous survey asked more than 1,000 American adults if and how they plan to travel this summer. Mathematics professor Eric Jones of Rowan College, South Jersey, analyzed the results.

According to the survey, nearly 82% of Americans plan to travel this summer, which could be more than 212 million adults throughout the season.

This number is down from summer 2023, with 3% fewer people intending to travel at least once this summer.

While nearly 52%, or 132 million Americans, said they would fly this summer, air travelers are down compared to last summer, when 54% intended to fly at least once.

According to The Points Guy, airline passengers could be in for another busy summer travel season in the U.S. and internationally. Experts also don’t expect fairs to drop significantly compared to last summer.

The average domestic airfare for June will cost about $303, with round-trip routes trending lower for July and August, according to The Points Guy.

According to The Vacationer survey, the most popular method of travel is by road. Seventy-five percent of Americans intend to take at least one road trip this summer, most driving somewhere within 100 miles of their home. 

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Less than 21% will stick to a destination within 250 miles from home, and 5.8% will drive more than 1,000 miles from home. 

How much road trip travelers pay at the gas pump this summer remains to be seen. 

According to AAA, the increasing gas prices may be about to stall – at least for a little while. The national average for a gallon of gas is $3.67, about two months ahead of Memorial Day weekend, when the summer travel season begins. 

“The situation overseas with war in both the Middle East and Ukraine has the oil market on edge,” AAA Andrew Gross spokesperson said. “But this is also the time of year we may see a bit of a lull in gasoline demand between the end of spring breaks and ahead of Memorial Day. So the national average for gas may waffle a bit with small increases, some flat days, and even some price dips.”

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After a drawn-out global controversy over the coronavirus, the W.H.O. has updated its classification of how pathogens spread through the air.

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By Carl Zimmer

In the early days of the Covid pandemic, a team of scientists called on the World Health Organization to acknowledge that the disease could spread through the air.

Initially, the agency rebuffed them, despite growing evidence that coronavirus-laden droplets stuck around in the air, making indoor spaces hotbeds of infection. The researchers responded with a public campaign , which helped persuade the World Health Organization to finally acknowledge, in late 2021, that Covid was airborne .

In the wake of the controversy, the agency also asked a group of advisers — including some of its scientific critics — to update its formal guidelines for classifying the ways that pathogens spread. After more than two years of discussion, that group has published a report laying out new definitions that could have significant implications for countries around the world that depend on the agency to set policies to curb the spread of disease.

The W.H.O.’s previous stance was that only a handful of pathogens — those that travel in small droplets and spread across long distances, like tuberculosis — could be considered airborne. But the new report suggests broader categories that do not rely on droplet size or distance spread. Such changes were contentious because they raised the prospect that more diseases might now demand costly control measures, such as hospital isolation rooms and protective gear.

“It’s an important first step,” said Dr. Ed Nardell, a tuberculosis expert at Harvard Medical School and a member of the group. “We really have a start, with agreed-upon terminology, even if everybody’s not happy with it.”

Before the pandemic, the W.H.O. and other agencies typically recognized a few ways diseases could spread. One was by “contact transmission,” in which someone picked up a pathogen either by touching an infected person directly or through contact with a contaminated surface.

“Droplet transmission” involved the short-range spread of diseases when people coughed or sneezed droplets larger than 5 microns (five millionths of a meter), which then landed directly on a victim’s mouth, eyes or nose.

“Airborne transmission” referred to just a handful of diseases that spread in droplets smaller than 5 microns, floating for long distances until someone inhaled them.

When Covid emerged, the agency said it was likely spreading over short distances, either through contact or droplet transmission.

But Yuguo Li, a mechanical engineer at Hong Kong University, and many other critics worried that the W.H.O. was overlooking the possibility that Covid could spread through the air. As the pandemic progressed, the scientists found evidence in outbreaks that the coronavirus might indeed be able to spread over long distances in floating droplets. (Some scientists questioned the strength of those studies.)

The W.H.O. formed the new advisory group in November 2021 and asked Dr. Li to be a co-chair. At the group’s meetings, Dr. Li and others argued that the agency had relied on false dichotomies.

For example, there is little scientific basis for the 5-micron threshold for small droplets. Larger droplets can also stay afloat for long periods of time.

The researchers also argued that short-range infections were not proof that a disease spreads only through coughs and sneezes. Infected people can also exhale droplets through breathing or talking that are then inhaled by others nearby.

The new report divides transmission routes into ones that involve contact, and others that involve the air. The group agreed to call the second route “through the air transmission.”

Linsey Marr, an environmental engineer at Virginia Tech and a member of the advisory group, found that phrase more awkward than a simpler term like airborne transmission.

“I find it very clunky,” she said. “But we were looking for the lowest common denominator terminology that everyone could live with.”

The report further specified that pathogens can spread through the air in two ways. One is “direct deposition,” which refers to droplets that hit the mucus membranes of the mouth, eyes or nose. The other is “airborne transmission/inhalation,” in which droplets are inhaled.

After the scientists came up with the new terminology, the W.H.O. obtained agreements from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as its counterparts in Africa, China and Europe, to adopt the same definitions.

“It’s a pretty important statement of agreement to work together,” said Dr. Jeremy Farrar, the W.H.O.’s chief scientist.

But the new report did not make any recommendations for how the agencies should stop diseases from spreading by these different routes. The authors acknowledged that they had been unable to reach a consensus on this issue.

Traditionally, hospital guidelines for controlling airborne diseases have called for expensive measures such as isolation rooms with negative air pressure, as well as N95 respirators and other protective gear to avoid inhaling fine droplets. But it is not clear which diseases warrant that kind of control, or what efforts should be taken outside of hospitals.

Dr. Walter Zingg, an infectious disease expert at the University of Zurich and a member of the advisory group, said the old categories offered more straightforward guidance. Staying a few feet from someone coughing and sneezing was once thought to be an effective way to avoid droplet transmission, for example.

“It was simplistic and probably not true in a way, but it served a purpose,” he said. “Now we have to bring other variables to the table.”

Dr. Farrar said such guidelines should be based on clear experimental evidence, though that evidence is still scarce for many diseases. Scientists are still debating, for instance, the extent that influenza, which has been studied for more than a century, spreads by air.

“We know a certain amount, but we’re not absolutely sure,” Dr. Farrar said. “That’s the sort of work we desperately need for influenza.”

Carl Zimmer covers news about science for The Times and writes the Origins column . More about Carl Zimmer