Thrillophilia

Thrillophilia is an Indian Adventure Travel company headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was founded by Chitra Gurnani and Abhishek Daga in 2009. In its initial years, Thrillophilia focused on online sales of adventure tours but it later expanded to ground operations and now conducts a variety of adventure and cultural tours across India.

The corporate outdoor and experiential learning model adopted by Thrillophilia has proven to be of great significance since it was fairly new concept in India.

History

Thrillophilia was founded in 2009 by Abhishek Daga, alumnus of the IT BHU and Chitra Gurnani alumnus of The INDIAN School of Business. Initially they used word of mouth and Digital marketing to popularize their company. A few months later, the company sold its trip to Ladakh on Thrillophilia.com. Today, as per Alexa traffic rankings, Thrillophilia is among the top 20 Travel Web sites and has been credited with India's largest adventure Travel website with more than 400 tours on website. Thrillophilia claims to have had at least 70% growth every quarter since its founding. The company started with eco tours and experiential tours in 2011 branched out to selling corporate tours, activity honeymoon trips and weekend getaways. Further in 2012, Thrillophilia added wildlife getaways. As of today, Thrillophilia employs over 18 people.

Funding

Initially bootstraped with 1500,000, Thrillophilia has since then twice raised funding from Angel funds.

Locations

The company's headquarters is located in Bangalore's HSR_Layout neighbourhood. Thrillophilia has offices, warehouse and customer service centers across India. Warehouse are located in the HSR Layout.

Products

Thrillophilia started with selling online adventure tours in 2009, and soon jumped into ground operations and starting conducting their own tours across India. In 2012, product launches included many tours for corporate customers, which have been a revenue booster.

See also

• Adventure travel