Dear Friend,
I invite you lot to partner amongst inwards setting upwardly Responsible Tourism Ventures across India.
Simply put, a Responsible Tourism Venture is i which ensures maximum create goodness to the host community patch having a minimum affect on the environment.
was registered equally a Private Limited Company inwards Apr 2009. My sense amongst the Hodka Rural Tourism Project led to the forming of the company. Currently nosotros offering a vacation bundle designed for guests using wheelchairs inwards Ladakh called Himalaya on Wheels in addition to a remain inwards the hamlet of Pranpur, Madhya Pradesh where guests stimulate got a pick of weaving, pottery or metalcraft to select from in addition to the rich cultural in addition to natural heritage of the expanse to enjoy. We are inwards discussions amongst interested host communities in addition to stimulate got plans to add together several novel destinations inwards the coming months.
You could select to:
Ø donate funds for which you lot volition live eligible for a taxation deduction,
Ø or you lot could select to invest inwards a specific venture. The render for each venture would vary based on a number of factors including location, conditions conditions in addition to commitment levels of the stakeholders.
At the Destination, nosotros operate amongst reputed NGOs to prepare Responsible Tourism Ventures. Your donation or investment into a Destination volition typically larn into setting upwardly a invitee house, creating the sense for the guest, preparation the local team, marketing, coming together working uppercase needs in addition to ensuring that it remains a Responsible Tourism venture. We volition hold you lot informed equally novel ventures come upwardly up.
Your donation or investment into volition assist pose together the squad that supports the destinations in addition to ensures that they offering the correct sense to guests patch earning a reasonable income for the hosts.
Else you lot could allow us to select where to deploy your donation or investment.
Our adjacent destination
Currently nosotros are looking for investments into a invitee solid that nosotros are setting upwardly jointly amongst The Banyan at Kovalam, thirty km exterior Chennai.
Here is a 4-minute video that explains equally good equally the venture amongst The Banyan. Click here...
The Banyan is a voluntary organization that reaches out to women amongst a mental disease in addition to supports them to a fulfilling life beyond. They stimulate got a protected community inwards Kovalam or Covelong, near thirty km due south of Chennai inwards Tamil Nadu.
Here, near sixty women are provided shelter in addition to all back upwardly inwards continuing their lives. These are women who stimulate got been treated or proceed to live treated for mental disease in addition to whose families create non desire them back. They are trained to hold back afterward their daily life needs in addition to also to maintain the campus inwards which they stay.
The Banyan prepare a guesthouse amongst iv rooms inwards 2009, to encourage guests to see in addition to remain amongst the community in addition to improve empathize mental wellness issues. The guesthouse was named 1498, afterward the twelvemonth inwards which Vasco Da Gama offset landed on the West Coast of Republic of Republic of India inwards his quest for spices. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 store was attached to the guesthouse, which sold products made yesteryear the women who alive inwards or stimulate got passed through The Banyan. However, the venture did non run for long equally hospitality is non the centre competence of The Banyan.
(TAI), a social company that supports organisations in addition to communities inwards developing Responsible Tourism Ventures inwards simply about other India, approached The Banyan to offering back upwardly inwards re-opening the guesthouse.
This would involve renovating the iv rooms available for the invitee house, refurbishing the interiors, preparation the team, creating the sense for guests in addition to and so doing the marketing.
The fiscal benefits to the protected community are calculated to amount to Rs.10.26 lakhs equally salaries in addition to Rs.5.25 lakhs equally rent over a menses of v years.
The full amount of investment needed for the venture is Rs.10 lakhs. Of this Rs.6.31 lakhs volition live for the renovation in addition to refurbishment of the invitee house. Rs.3.69 lakhs volition live used equally working uppercase over the offset 2 years primarily to encompass salaries in addition to preparation costs.
A detailed Business Plan is available in addition to tin live shared amongst you lot on request.
Some pictures of 1498, earlier the needed renovation in addition to refurbishment:
1The entrance to the rooms 
| 2 The driveway to the Guest House  |
3 An overview of the campus -> 
Terms
If you lot would similar to donate coin toward this venture, you lot could create so direct to The Banyan. Those making a donation greater than Rs.10,000 volition have a half-yearly update on how the Guest House is faring along amongst the fiscal report. All donations are 100% taxation exempt nether Section 35 air-conditioning of the Income Tax Act of 1961.
If you lot would similar to invest, TAI volition convey amounts equal to or greater than `50,000/- (Rupees Fifty grand only) from each individual.
Your investment volition live tentatively[1] treated equally preferred capital. You tin select to withdraw your funds inwards 2018 or inwards 2021 equally per the electrical flow plan. Your maximum render could be:
| Invested Amount | In 2018 | In 2021 |
| `50,000 | `70,000 | `1,00,000 |
| Annualised Return | 6.67% | 11.11% |
This is dependent land to marketplace position risks.
The sole possessor of the Guest House volition proceed to remain The Banyan.
In addition, you lot volition larn a 20% discount for fifteen nights for i room inwards 2012, 2013 in addition to 2014. And for 8 nights for a room for the remaining menses of your investment at the Guest House.
By Apr 2013, a dissever legal entity volition live prepare for the Guest House in addition to all funds volition live transferred to its account. The Governing Body volition stimulate got representatives from The Banyan, TAI in addition to all investors. The nature of this entity volition live finalised over the adjacent half dozen months in addition to communicated amongst all investors.
If you lot stimulate got whatsoever questions, suggestions or comments, delight create write to me.
Thank you.
With Regards
Gouthami
+91 9940 559 513
Payment Details
The Banyan
The Banyan is legally registered equally a Trust.
The Banyan,
6th Main Road, Mogapair Eri Scheme, Mogapair West,
Chennai - 600 037, India
Bank transfers tin live made through ICICI Bank. Please follow all payments amongst an electronic mail to gou@travelanotherindia.com amongst the details so that the amount tin live attributed to the Guest House.
ICICI Bank
| Address: | Anna Nagar Branch A78, Plot No 3211 third Avenue, Anna Nagar Chennai - 600 102 Tamil Nadu, India |
| Tel: | 91-44-2626 2334 |
| Email: | annanagar@icicibank.com |
| Accounts: | Corpus A/C No: 602701202072 Recurring Costs A/C No: 602701209343 |
is legally registered equally a private express companionship nether the advert TAI Responsible Tourism Consultants Private Limited. The 2 Directors are Ms kv Gouthami in addition to Ms K Ramalakshmi.
Name: TAI Responsible Tourism Consultants PLTD
Bank: HDFC
Branch: Anna Nagar Main, Chennai
A/C No.: 00 172 0000 32510
Type: Current
IFSC: HDFC0000017
Cheques or Demand Drafts favouring the advert above, payable at Chennai, may live sent to:
Ms Gouthami
AB 50, Anna Nagar, Chennai – 600 040, India
[1] The exact nature of uppercase volition live defined based on the legal status of the entity yesteryear Apr 2013.