Travel Spice bags ‘Travel Tech’ award

Travel spice, an online hotel booking platform from Bangalore, has won the ‘Travel Tech’ start-up of the year 2018 award from the Government of Karnataka.

Award, and a prize money of Rs 15 lakhs, was handed over by the Minister of Tourism Priyannk Kharge to the co-founders of travel spice Ankit Manglik and Prashant Mitta at Bangalore Palace.

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The company has business with over 8000-star hotels among 220 cities in India and abroad. Travel Spice provides online bookings with discounts as well as value-based services. “Travel Spice is based on the unique opaque model well suited for intelligent Indian consumer and has rapidly made a mark in the online hotel booking industry,” said Priyank Kharge.

India’s first start-up initiative project ‘ELEVATE100’ was from Karnataka that mainly focuses on a complete new platform for entrepreneurs that promote start-up for the progressive development of the society.

Start-up thus enables new employment opportunity as well as skill development for the youth.

on an end note said that, “We are grateful to Priyank Kharge and Government of Karnataka for this award and the grant of Rs 15 Lakhs. This is just a beginning. We will be a Rs 700 crore company in 4 years and revolutionise online hotel booking industry across the world with our unique innovations,” said CEO of Travel Spice, Ramu Kallepalli.