with peerless quality and matchless services Mission Pure-in-action commitment to all the Travel needs, assured value-added services and close monitoring at every step, to ensure delightful Travel with absolute safety and personal touch . Approach Honesty and transparency are two focal points, on which all our relationships with customers have been built upon year after year. At Southern Travels, a promise is a promise. Apart from quality, you are firmly assured of no hidden charges. Customer delight and maintenance of good will are much more foremost to us, than profits. Comfort & Safety With over four decades of service to our clients, Southern Travels has built an excellent reputation for flawless safety, total comfort, friendly approach and efficient services. Our attitude to the safety of our valued clients is uncompromising. We maintain the highest standards of reliability and safety, which our clients relish and would love to have. Team Our team strives for your satisfaction. Professionalism and warmth form the basis of all our interactions at all points. Most of our team members are well conversant with many Indian Languages. Convenience Individual Tailor-made Packages are exclusive from Southern Travels. Tour itineraries have been perfected to meet the special needs of travelers. Southern Travels provides services individually and personally, as per your own choice of places and visits thereof. Right from ticket booking for traveling, whether it is accommodation, or sightseeing or any other aspect, we take every care and ensure a safe, secure and happy return with utmost satisfaction, back to Southern Travels, thereby tangibly proving our exclusivity in everything. Our Services We are pioneers in the travel business for the last 45 years. We have a fleet of 50 coaches/ cars of our own, with a network of offices at New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada. Our Indian restaurant is functioning at Durban South Africa. We also own Hotel Southern at New Delhi equipped with 100 available Rooms. Our Services are: International/ domestic air ticketing Railway Reservation 24-hour Airlines Reservation Counter (Jet, Sahara & Indian Airlines) Package tours all over India Hotel reservations all over India Airport transfers Tailor-made tours for Individuals, Groups, Students, Corporate, Business tours Car/ Coach Rentals (Budget & Luxury) Hotel Southern at New Delhi equipped with 100 rooms is of ours. Friendly Staff: All our staff are friendly, well qualified and are well conversant with many of the languages which includes English, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam & Hindi. Winners of National Tourism Award as the Best Domestic Tour Operator for 7 Consecutive Years (2008 to 2014) PRESS NOTE M/s Southern Travels Pvt. Ltd., an ISO 9001: 2000 certified company is a household name and a favourite of thousands of TRAVEL LOVERS. With more than four decades of experience, Southern Travels has been extending excellent services in the spheres of travel & hospitality. Originating from the National Capital of New Delhi, this coveted company has a large network of branches in different metropolitan cities as well as many other places across the country. Steered by the pure motto of making travel more meaningful and much more experiential, this company has been functioning with purposefulness, thereby catering to the travel and hospitality needs of the tourists. Success is never accidental but a measured contribution of various winning factors. Similarly creativity is one of the key notes to success. Southern Travels believes that success is possible only through new ideas and initiatives. The unique features of this company includes individual services, affordable packages, wide coverage, committed staff and transparency in dealings. With a fleet of ultra modern vehicles including latest model VOLVO coaches, well designed offices, own infrastructure, they make travel as well as stay memorable and long cherishable. And in every walk of their activities, they have been ensuring the element of nativity - wherever and whenever. It is, probably, in recognition of their unstinted efforts and the magnificent role played by them in the field of TOURISM, the Government of India, Ministry of Tourism has honoured Southern Travels with the prestigious National Tourism Awards as the "BEST DOMESTIC TOUR OPERATOR" in India for the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. And they are now, more than delighted to have been selected for this prestigious Award for the seventh time in succession in 2014 also. For the seventh time, Southern Travels feels proud to having receive this coveted award on the 18th February 2014 from His excellency, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, president of India at a glittering function to be held at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi in the presence of Dr. K. Chiranjeevi, Hon'ble Minister of State for Tourism (I.C.). With these prestigious Honours, Southern Travels rededicates itself for serving the nation in the field of Tourism and hospitality sectors with new zeal and enthusiasm. The background of this company:- Southern Travels was a Partnership Firm since 1970. It became a Private Limited Company in 1995. Our Chairman, Shri A.V. Rao, was holding some of the important positions:- Chairman - Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation ( A State Government Undertaking) Chairman - Sri Venkateswara College ( New Delhi ) Member - Tourism Promotion Board of Andhra Pradesh Government Director of Vysya Bank ( Bengaluru) Member - National Film Censor Board Member of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Board ( TTD ) Tirupati Vice President - All India Vaish Federation, New Delhi. Our management consists of Shri A.V. Rao, Chairman ( M.A. ), Shri A. Krishna Mohan, Managing Director (MBA, from Loyola College, Chennai) and Shri A. Venkata Praveen Kumar, Joint Managing Director (MBA from New College, Chennai). These professionally qualified young executives are on the Board of Directors of our company and are assisted by experienced professional / General Managers Hotel at Vijayawada : We have recently inaugurated a 3 Star Facility Hotel at the heart of Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, consisting of Guest Rooms, Pure Vegetarian South Indian Restaurant, Banquet / Conference Hall. Future Plans : In the coming 3-5 years, we are going to open Hotels/Resorts at Vishakapatnam, Goa, Hyderabad and Manali. Our offices are also going to get opened shortly in Madurai, Cochin, Bhuvneshwar, Nellore and Kolkata. Social Service : There was unprecedented flood in Andhra Pradesh in September 2009. Our company contributed RUPEES ONE LAKH to Chief Minister's Flood Relief Fund. We also contributed Rs.50,000/- to TV9 as donation in addition to supplying 2 of our trucks for transport of flood relief material from Hyderabad to Kurnool.