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Indian Society Of Natural Volunteers (ISONAVA) is a volunteery organization which helps foreign tourists in India and also fight to save nature. The Organization was formed in 1984 with 8 members, now this organization has over 4000 members across India. ISONAVA has published more than 70 magazines and has sold more than 1 miilion copies. ISONAVA also distributes free travel guides to foreign tourists in India.
In the beginning of 80's Co founder of organization S.N. Gupta used to write
articles on his experiences of Garhwal region of Uttaranchal State of India. He
used to wrote articles for the newspaper Navbharat Times Sunday's Edition. He
used to live with the co founder of organization JP Narayan. They were very good
friends and had travelled across India togather. In their trips across India
they met hundreds of foreign tourists while travelling and get to know problemes
they faces while travelling India. Inspired by this both decided to make a
organization to protect Nature and boost Indian Tourism by helping foreign
tourists in India.
Both of them used to work for Council Of Scientific and
Industrial Reseach (CSIR) office Central Electronics Engineering Institute
(CEERI) Delhi's branch office. When their collegues heard this idea six of them
decided to join the organization. This way ISONAVA started in the year
1984.
In the early days they used to go every house and ask them to protect
Nature. Impressed by their Idea and organization by the start of 1985 ISONAVA
members increased from 8 to 50. In the upcoming years members increased from 50
to 300.
In 1987 they decided to give foreign tourists in Delhi a free guide
to travel Delhi, which included good places to eat, places to stay Bus No to
reach various places etc. First they used to write guides on ordinary papers.
They used to write guides in 4 languages English, Spanish, French and Italian.
They used to write guides till late in the night. All meetings of ISONAVA used
to be held either at CEERI or one of the member Rajendra Singh Minhas who was an
sports teacher in a School used to arrange classroom for weekends for
meetings.
In 1988 ISONAVA took a step further by publishing their very first
magazing ISONAVA. Organization had very hard time to arrange funds for magazine,
they sold some of their slides to Natural Meuseum of Delhi to arrange funds to
print magazine. They published 5000 copies of their first magazine. The very
first print was framed and still hanging on the wall of their office.
By the
start of 90's ISONAVA were helping foreign tourists in getting a place to stay,
good food to eat, some members used to provide foreign tourists of low budget
place to stay at their own house. In 1996 efforts of ISONAVA was appricited by
Tourism
Department of India by Honouring them with Tourism award. By the year 2000
ISONAVA had over 2000 members.
The Idea of making a travel guide website of India was first proposed on 15 Annievarsary of ISONAVA in year 1999. At that time most of the members were not interest in this idea. It took 3 years to convince members and finally ISONAVA's travel website EasyDestination.net was launched ni January 2003. But it was only after 2005 Easydestination got regular visitors. Website slowly but started to become popular but webiste was criticised for lack of quality element and only the reputation of ISONAVA was carried the website. EasyDestination was recognised by Tourism Department Of India in 2005 which was highly criticised by other travel websites. It was in the year 2006 when lots of problems in website were fixed and later that year it was also recognised by World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). In 2007 Easy Destination came in full control of Gupta family and by the end of year it achieved 1 million visitors per month according to web traffic rankings.
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