The Travel Planners, the leading Tour Operator in Kerala, India celebrated the Silver jubilee on 02nd August 2024 at The Leela Hotel Kovalam. The function was inaugurated by the Chief Secretary of Kerala Dr Venu IAs and eminent personalities from the Tourism trade Mr Em Najeeb, Mr.Narayanan , Mr Baby Mathew, Mr Sayed Rasheed post-Master General Dental and North Kerala Circle were present. Hotels, Houseboat operators, Resort owners etc joined the celebration.
The Founder and CEO of The Travel Planners Mr Anish Kumar. P.K. started Travel Planners in 1999 after completing the Tourism Management course at the Kerala Institute of Travel and Tourism Studies (KITTS as a one-man show. From inception, The Travel Planners has focused on innovation, off the beaten track and professionalism to thrive the business. 2009 The Travel Planners shifted from a rented office to own building in Eanchakkal, Trivandrum and Dr.Venu Its inaugurated the office.
In 2005 Kerala State Tourism Department awarded The Travel Planners with the Best Innovative Tourism Product award for bringing out a destination wedding Package for foreign travellers and many couples from various countries tied the knot in Kerala seeing the wedding package.
In 2011 Ministry of Tourism, Government of Kerala awarded The Travel Planners with Best Inbound Tour Operator and the Award was given away by actress and Miss World Priyanka Chopra in the presence of Speaker of Lokha Sabha and tourism minister.
In 2011 The Travel Planners started the YouTube channel and by associating with the leading Malayalam film director Mr.Vipin Das The Travel Planners created the first video in Kerala which got 5 lakhs of views and later a video to promote Kerala as a Honeymoon destination and a short film on Kerala with great emotional touch was also produced and attained the attention of lakhs of people. The Travel Planners used digital marketing tools at the early stages of promotion like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Linkedin, and YouTube to grab the attention of the travellers. Their website www.keralatourpackages.com has a comprehensive array of Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu tour packages and the website has highly useful information about the tourist places, different combinations of holiday packages like Cultural tours, Kerala family tours, Kerala Honeymoon packages, Kerala Group Tour, Packages to Kerala from different Indian cities, Kerala wellness tour, short and long durations tours. In 2015 Kerala Tourism Department awarded The Travel Planners with Best Use of Information Technology.
The Travel Planners also own 03 boutique properties in prime locations of Kerala viz The Villa Romantica, Cochin Airport, Spice Tree, Munnar, The Ayur Villa Kovalam a boutique Ayurveda and Yoga retreat. The Travel Planners owns a fleet of Luxury cars and coaches for transportation and sightseeing with friendly and English-speaking drivers which made many of the guests to write reviews of their travel in Tripadvisor and Google reviews which are highly rated.
At the 25th-year Celebration, the company rebranded with a new logo. Moving forward The Travel Planners is focusing more on Women’s Travel, Destination wedding, and customised South India travel packages said Anish Kumar P.K CEO of The Travel Planners. Dedicated, hardworking over 25 tourism professionals are the success of The Travel Planners to become the best Travel agency and Tour Operator in Kerala, India he added.
