Agantuk's Desk – Explore, Implore, Reverberate

When it comes to booking a stay for vacations and holidays, people nowadays are always looking for platforms like Airbnb to find viable homestays or rental options. However, Airbnb is quite expensive and problematic in India. 

Hence the necessity of an affordable platform that taps into the hidden potential of homestays and vacation rentals in India. 

Shailza Sood Daspgupta, a globetrotter and social entrepreneur saw this gap in demand and supply and founded the startup “Homestays of India” back in 2017.

Eco-conscious, Empowering, Enabling

This Delhi-based startup is the ideal platform to book a homestay anywhere in India with over 100 Homestays available for booking in 21 states. It’s a Sustainability enabled ecotourism startup that takes care of people’s vacation needs in an eco-friendly manner. 

Unlike other such hosting platforms, Homestays of India empowers the hosts and the travelers by making them bond.

•  The homestay hosts and owners are trained to highlight cultural insights of the locality and to hire locals.
•  Frequent meetings are held to educate them about eco-friendly practices and also to highlight the uniqueness and fervor of the place. 
• The hosts also get to meet other fellow homestay owners to boost their understanding of the industry.

• The travelers get a chance to interact with each other, the hosts, and the communities in the locality. 
• They have tapped in new trends in traveling like workation and have turned traditional Homestays workation friendly. 

They aim to make it look like an effortless traveling experience from a comfy home which is the mantra for digital nomads. 

Homestays of India’s community empowering efforts have been already recognized by the Indian Government with a national award.