Desi Travel Companion

Are you looking for a travel companion for your mom or mother in law or for yourself? you now have Desi Travel Companion www.DesiTravelCompanion a free to use platform to find or be a travel companion.

Chandler, Arizona USA based Sailaja Boddu and Ravi Kommineni family, creators of Desi Travel Companion have first hand seen challenges faced by elderly parents and moms travelling with infants, boarding flights for the first time, struggling with transit flights and filling in forms.

The free to use website works as a platform where passengers who need a travel companion and those volunteering to be travel companions can connect with each other. Passengers looking for travel companions can post their trip details or have someone to do it on their behalf. Volunteers can post details of their trip and offer to help. The website also allows passengers to ‘tip’ volunteers which is a good way for passengers like students to earn a few bucks while helping someone out.

Passenger’s email ids and phone numbers are not visible to the public and are exchanged only after they agree to connect with each other and decide to take it ahead. Users get notifications about trips that match and if you have cancelled your trip or are taking a different flight, you can edit your posting on the website and the travel companion/passenger will get an alert about the change.

The website has attracted 180,000 visitors from all around the world and hundreds have connected with each other. The whole idea was to solve the problem of finding a Travel Companion and such issues faced by desi communities across the world using technology.

The creators hope the global desi community helps each other by being a Travel Companion in this busy travel Season.