The Tarzan Way

Name

The Tarzan Way

Legal name

Tarzan Way Travels Private Limited

Website

https://thetarzanway.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Travel Planning and Booking Services

NAICS

Tour Operators (56152), Travel Agencies (561510)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Itinerary Management & Trip Collaboration Apps (THALAMAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Adventure & Expedition Custom Itinerary Planning (THAKAOAC), Adventure & Expedition Travel Agencies (THAKAFAB)

Keywords

• AI travel planning
• Experiential travel services
• Corporate travel management
• MICE event planning
• Personalized itinerary booking

Headquarters

HQ city

Noida

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Travel Booking Transaction Fees: The primary revenue comes from commissions/take rates on flights, hotels, and experiences booked through the platform. Users pay only for what they book with transparent pricing and no hidden markups. The platform is free to plan with; revenue generated when bookings are completed.
2. Corporate Travel Services: B2B revenue from corporate clients for team outings, offsites, conferences, MICE events. Handles end-to-end planning and coordination for corporate groups with 15,000+ travelers hosted and 5,000+ experiences delivered.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Tarzan Way is an AI-powered travel planning and booking platform. Its core product, Kaira, is a conversational AI trip planner that searches flights, hotels, transfers, and experiences across 1,100+ platforms in real time and produces a complete, bookable itinerary in under two minutes. Every AI-generated plan is reviewed and refined by a 20+ person team of on-ground human curators, and travelers pay only for the components they choose to book with no planning fees or hidden markups.

Product overview

The Tarzan Way operates as a unified AI-powered travel platform centered on Kaira, an AI trip planner that combines conversational AI with human expert review. The core product builds complete personalized itineraries by searching across 1,100+ booking platforms. The company also offers a new Exploration App for mobile access, integrates with TravClan's Volt API for operational efficiency, and provides a Corporate Travel Solutions sub-brand for business clients requiring team outings, offsites, and MICE services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kaira: AI-powered trip planner chatbot that creates personalized travel itineraries in seconds, fine-tuned by human travel experts.

Products and services

• Kaira AI Trip Planner Conversational AI trip planner that builds complete personalized itineraries covering flights, hotels, transfers, and experiences in under two minutes by searching 1,100+ booking platforms in real time. Supports Hindi, Hinglish, and English, offers unlimited revisions, and combines AI output with human curator review. Free to use; travelers pay only for components they choose to book.
• Corporate Travel Solutions End-to-end corporate travel service covering team outings, offsites, team-building events, conferences, incentive trips, and MICE events. Includes venue selection, travel, visa coordination, and on-ground execution for corporate groups across 90+ destinations.
• Exploration App Mobile application announced to extend Kaira-style personalized trip planning and booking to a dedicated mobile experience for travelers globally.

Quantifiable outcome

• 94% of travelers return for a second trip
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability3 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• TravClan (Volt API)coreTechnology or IntegrationImplemented Volt API by TravClan for operational efficiency, accelerated market entry, and growth support. Volt API facilitates real-time data sharing, simplified integration, and enhanced customer experience.
• ExpediacoreTechnology or IntegrationPlatform integration for flight and hotel booking aggregation
• MakeMyTripcoreTechnology or IntegrationPlatform integration for travel booking aggregation
• AgodacoreTechnology or IntegrationPlatform integration for accommodation booking
• Rail EuropecoreTechnology or IntegrationPlatform integration for European rail bookings
• Local Travel Partners (520)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork of 520 local partners providing on-ground services, accommodations, and experiences across destinations
• Local Communities (30 Villages)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner30 villages empowered through tourism partnerships providing authentic local experiences

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Others

• Booking.com:

Emerging players

• iPlan.ai: AI travel planner that builds custom itineraries from natural-language prompts. Comparable as an emerging AI-first itinerary builder targeting leisure travelers.
• Hopper: AI-driven travel app focused on flights, hotels and cars with predictive pricing. Comparable to Kaira's AI-first conversational approach to booking travel.
• Layla: AI travel planning assistant that builds conversational itineraries and bookings. Closest direct comparable to Kaira's generative-AI trip planner positioning.

Direct peers

• Cleartrip: Indian OTA (owned by Flipkart) offering flights, hotels and curated holiday packages to Indian travelers. Competes head-to-head on the same India-outbound leisure package segment and corporate travel desk.
• Yatra Online: India-listed OTA providing flights, hotels, holiday packages and corporate travel. Overlaps with The Tarzan Way on both B2C holiday packages and B2B/corporate travel services.
• MakeMyTrip: India's largest OTA offering flights, hotels and holiday packages. Directly comparable to The Tarzan Way as both target Indian outbound leisure travelers with package-style offerings; MakeMyTrip has the inventory scale and brand reach The Tarzan Way lacks.
• SOTC Travel: Indian tour operator (part of Fairfax group) specializing in packaged holidays, MICE and corporate travel. Directly comparable on India-outbound packages and corporate offsites.

Broad incumbents

• Cox & Kings: Legacy Indian travel company offering leisure, corporate and education travel. Competes in the same experiential and corporate travel segments; notably also listed as a partner of The Tarzan Way.
• Thomas Cook (India): Large established Indian travel company offering holiday packages, corporate travel, MICE and forex. Competes broadly in the same tour-operator space but with a much wider portfolio and legacy brand.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/thetarzanway
• Facebookfacebook.com/thetarzanway
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/thetarzanway

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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