“I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.” – George Clooney
Everything starts with an idea, and the team came together in making the idea happen. Countless conversations with concentrated brain storming created Eventours. We strongly believe that you have to taste a culture to understand it and what best can it be, if you are a part of the celebration, anywhere you go.
At Eventours, we are made up of a very interesting group of people with countless years of experience working and travelling in India and outside. We join hands with some of the best in the industry when it comes to exploring and creating experiences. We will provide you an exceptional vacation filled with inspiring and life-enriching experience. And that becomes our relentless pursuit of excellence.
Let the adventure begin, lets ramble.
Meet the Co-founders
Amitabh and Raunak started Eventours to solve their own travel challenges. As erstwhile corporate executives, with their own backpacking interests, they visualized that travel in itself is an event. And being part of an engaged travel program is what most travel enthusiasts likes to experience. They took one step further by making the traveller an entrepreneur and lo behold there comes the “travelpreneur”.
Amitabh Sarma - After working for a few years as a Business Analyst in American Express he quit his job to travel the world. A post graduate in Business Administration, he worked with some big corporate giants like NIIT, EFunds, Technova Global and Jungle Travels India. He reads, writes and works travel!! He says that his best moments in life have been when he is riding his Royal Enfield through the rugged mountains and serene plains of India. He goes Neil Patrick Harris’ maxim - “Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still have a big impact.”
Impact Areas: Co-Founder, Product Development & Marketing Outbound Experiences
Raunak Narayan Deb – He comes with 10+ years of experience with strong service industry background throughout his career and an eye for detail. A post graduate also in Business Administration, he finally made to what he has always loved – travel. After his stints with big global names like IBM, American Express, Hutchison Australia, he made his way to his home in Assam. A vivid traveller by nature he likes to explore and read places and loves to make a visionary approach to most of his work. He swears by Clint Eastwood’s maxim - “Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.”
Impact Areas: Co-Founder, Product Development & Marketing Inbound Experiences
THE TEAM
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people. -Steve Jobs
Eventours Travels is assisted in terms of product development, marketing, digital concepts and an array of activities by specialist individuals and organisations from the region. All of them are experts in travel and allied activities. Eventours Travels is essentially a collaboration of like- minded individuals, who although from relatively different spheres, have corroborated a common platform.
Arpan Kalita is a spirited drifter. Having wandered from engineering assignments to account tables to graphics, he finally found solace in nature. His journey with travelling and photography started in 2011. Fresh from a stint in Delhi, the wanderer in him awakened to a new life. He made his camera an integral part of his life. Travelling is his food and mountains, his first love. Perhaps the love for the mountains has brought out the best in him when it comes to Landscape Photography. Mountains, it’s people and their struggle for existence; is what propels him. He is also involved with Wildlife and Community conservation and is working with organisations like WildTrail, Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust and Metropolis. He is the co-founder of Muse N Memories, Happy Drifters and Arpan Kalita Photography
Impact Areas: Product Development, Photography Trips, Wildlife Expeditions, Home-stays & Hostels
Saad Zaman is a story teller, Nature lover and wayfarer of treks and trails in forests and hilly terrains. Riding for him is a childhood passion involving anything with 2 wheels; MTB, motorcycle custom builds and off-road enthusiast. Riding provides that feeling of ultimate freedom, absorbing all the surrounding elements and that wind-in-the-hair experience. Along with being an avid cyclist and adventure enthusiast, he is also certified as an open water scuba diver (PADI) and an experienced wildlife tracker who has worked with elephants in the wild and in domesticated environments. He has assisted the NTCA in the yearly assessment in numbers of tiger population in Pakke Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh. A strong believer of eco friendly ways of sustainable living along with training in setting up energy grids through solar power and self-sustainable models of permaculture and basic farming methods. He has also spent considerable amount of time navigating sport fishing boats and guiding fishing enthusiasts around the Andaman Islands, targeting predatory fish species like Tuna, Barracudas, giant trevally and mackerels. He believes in curating experiences where the journey is as important as the destination.
Impact Areas: Adventure Activities, Product Development, Motorcycle Trips
Abhilash Saikia – is a keen photo journalist. A Mechanical Engineer by choice and a travel enthusiast at heart, Abhilash had associated himself with projects like Metropolis Asia, Assam State Rural Livelihood Mission and creative projects by Pencil Design Studios. His never-ending curiosity to learn and understand nature has taken him to some remote destinations across India. His philosophy with travel is to immerse you as much in the local culture as possible and to always try to learn the basics of the local language – it goes a long way in showing appreciation for local customs and always seems to pay its way back in valuable tips from the locals.
Impact Area: Travelprenuer, Content Creation, Experiences
Shayan Gautam – a member of Assam Mountaineering Association and having been part of some advanced level trekking experiences in West Bengal and Sikkim is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Electricals from Guwahati. A keen videographer, content creator, waterfall hunter and explorer, Shayan is part of Eventours, creating some very interesting experiences. These fabulous travelling opportunities, combined with his hunger to learn about cultures, customs, art and cuisine inspired him to work in the travel industry.
Impact Area: Travelprenuer, Content Creation, Experiences, Videographer
Sidhant Kumar Deka – is pursuing his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. An avid traveller across some major national parks and lesser known eco-parks in India, Sid’s extensive trekking experiences in Northern Himalayas in India, brings to Eventours some fantastic travel activities. He has since travelled to Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, falling in love with the relaxed way of life and chic home stays, and more recently, he has returned from a whirlwind trip to Meghalaya in east India, which completely stole his heart. He is a keen musician and travel aficionado.
Impact Area: Travelprenuer, Content Creation, Experiences, Videographer
COLLABORATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
Pencils Design Studio – We are keenly supported by Pencil Design Studio, headed by Ritu Raj Phukan in terms of content creation and advertising. Pencil Design Studio is a full house graphic designing, animation and printing solutions based out of Guwahati.
Zakti Digital Services - Zakti Digital supports Eventours in terms of maintaining and creating the website. They are responsible for digital marketing for Eventours Travels. Zakti Digital is premier digital agency based out of Guwahati.
CA Gaurav Agarwal & Associates - Chartered Accountant Gaurav Agarwal & his team is responsible for maintaining the book of accounts for Eventours Travels. Eventours Travels believes in contributing to the country’s economy and advocates a clean financial management.
Way with Frames: Arpan Kalita’s brainchild Way with Frames collaborates with Eventours Travels that enables Photo-enthusiasts, Photographers and even Non- Photographers to experience unique photography and travel experiences.
OUR CHARITIES:
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." -Muhammad Ali
Launched in 2017, the ET Charity initiative helps raise funds for less fortunate areas and communities around the world, many of which have given us and our guests such a warm welcome and endless enjoyment. The scheme involves us levying a small voluntary contribution on each tailor-made and escorted tour invoice which we then match before distributing the entire amount to our chosen project.
Our plan is to raise substantial financial help and distribute to a wide variety of projects around the world. We and the recipients are deeply grateful for your generous support. Thank You.
Do write to us at [email protected] or visit our website www.eventours.in
Alternatively we would love to hear from you in person , if you could call us at +91-7086566970 or +91-7086566971
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