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GoTravelBlue
Our story

We started this the way every good journey starts — around a family dining table.

GoTravelBlue was founded in 2013 to bridge a gap between affordable group travel and truly personal planning. Thirteen years on, we still plan every journey the same way: one conversation, one family, one person responsible from start to finish.

Early team photo, or the first office — a real, unstaged moment
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Where it began

A gap nobody was filling

In 2013, planning a family holiday in India meant choosing between two bad options: a rigid group tour where nobody knew your name, or weeks of doing everything yourself. We had watched our own parents come back from "package tours" more tired than when they left.

So we started small — a handful of families, journeys planned over long phone calls, and a promise that the person who planned your trip would answer the phone while you were on it. That promise has never changed.

The team today, or a family mid-journey with their travel manager
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Where we are now

Bigger, but deliberately not big

Today we plan journeys across sixty destinations for thousands of families — and we have stayed small enough that every journey still has one name attached to it. Our travel managers average over eight years with us; several have planned three generations of the same family's holidays.

“We measure success in families who come back — not in bookings per day.”
Our journey so far

Thirteen years of planning, one family at a time

2013Founded to bridge a gap in personalized travelStarted with a handful of families and a promise: the person who plans your journey answers the phone throughout it.
2016First escorted group departuresSmall fixed-departure groups to Europe and Southeast Asia — never more than a size where the tour manager knows every name.
2020Stood by every family through the shutdownEvery affected booking was rescheduled or refunded in full. Many of those families are the reason we're still here.
2024Crossed 4,800 families servedA number we're proud of mostly because so many of them are the same families, travelling with us again.
…and the next chapter is planned the same way as the first — one family at a time.
What we hold ourselves to

The values are simple. Keeping them is the work.

TrustWe say what's included and what isn't, in writing, before you pay anything.
HonestyIf a hotel or a season isn't right for your family, we'll tell you — even if it costs us the booking.
TransparencyOne clear per-person price. No surprise supplements, no fine print.
Personalized serviceOne person owns your journey from the first call to the drive home.
The people who plan your journeys

You'll know your travel manager by name

Every journey is owned by one of these people from the first call to the drive home. No call centres, no ticket numbers.

Meera KrishnanSenior travel manager · 11 years
Has walked most of the routes she recommends. Known for reconfirming everything twice, and for answering her own WhatsApp.
Arjun NairTravel manager · Europe & long-haul
Plans the gentle-paced European circuits our senior travellers ask for by name. Handles visas end to end.
Kavita RaoTravel manager · Domestic journeys
Kerala, Rajasthan and the Himalayas. If there is a heritage haveli with a working lift, Kavita knows it.
Sanjay MehtaFounder
Still takes first calls with new families most weeks. Believes a travel company should feel like a well-travelled friend.
Priya MenonTravel manager · Group tours
Escorts several departures a year herself — the pace, the meals and the pauses are hers by design.
Rohan DesaiOperations & on-trip support
The person awake when your flight is delayed at 2 am. Coordinates drivers, hotels and reconfirmations mid-journey.
13 yearsof planning journeys
4,800+ familieshave travelled with us
60+ destinationsacross India and the world
Veg & Jain mealsarranged on every journey

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