Our New Delhi office is located on the main Arya Samaj Road, Karol Bagh, 2.5 kms from New Delhi Railway Station and 15 Kms from Domestic/International Airport. Nearby marketing centres are Connaught Place and Karol Bagh within 2 Kms distance.

HOTEL SOUTHERN at New Delhi, with 100 AC/Non-Ac Rooms, two restaurants, one exclusively for vegetarian and the other serving both vegetarian and Non-vegetarian food.
BUSINESS center with Std/ISD/FAX and Xerox is functioning in our Hotel Premises.

OUR OVERSEAS VENTURE: We have opened an Indian Restaurant at Durban (South Aftica) serving the best South and North Indian food along with our travel counter to bring tourists from South Africa to India.

Our own offices within India - New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam & Chennai are located in Northern, Western and Southern India.

Super Deluxe Coaches - AC/Non-AC and cars are available at all our offices. We have a total fleet of 30 coaches/cars of our own.

Running regular package tours to different historical/religious destinations in India is our specialty. Also arranging hotel accommodation, rail/air reservations through out India.

We are recognized by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India. We are members of Indian Association of Tour Operators, All India Motor transport Congress. These are the prestigious associations representing by the travel trade in India.

We are authorised travel Agents to conduct package tours to the employees of Corporate sector, Banks, LIC and Public Sector Undertakings.

About Board of Directors a) Shri A.V. Rao: Our Chairman was instrumental in developing our company. He was holding the following prestigious positions :
i) Chairman, Andhra Pradesh Government Tourism Development Corporation.
ii) Member,(Ttd) Tirumal Tirupati Devasthanams, Tirupati.
iii) Director, The Vysya Bank Ltd. Bangalore
iv) Chairman, Shri Venkateswara College, New Delhi.
v) Member, Central Board of Film Censors.
b) Shri A.Krishna Mohan, Managing Director
c) Shri A.V. Praveen Kumar, Executive Director (Marketing)

Shri A. Krishna Mohan and Shri A.V. Praveen Kumar are well qualified with Masters Degree in Business Administration and thus running the organisation on professional lines.

The very fact that we are running package tours providing all the facilities for the domestic/foreign tourists for the last 34 years successfully, is a reflection of the efficiency and our prompt services.

PRESS NOTE
The founder of Southern Travels Pvt. Ltd is Shri A. Venkateswara Rao . He hails from a middle-class family in a remote village, Prasangulapad near Ongole, Prakasm District in Andhra Pradesh. He used to walk 15Kms a day to go from village to school and back as there was no proper travel facilities. With a determination to become an IAS Officer he studied and achieved 1st Class in M.A. Economics. He came to Delhi to write IAS examinations. He worked with National Council of Applied Economics Research, New Delhi ( NCAER) and the Union Ministry of Commerce, New Delhi.

After taking VRS, Travel Services was started for getting the train tickets and arranging Tourist buses for the customers to nearby Agra, Hardwar, etc. way back in 1971. These services attracted the middle-class employees. The volume of business started growing.

Thousands of tourists were coming from Southern States to New Delhi to visit various places. There was no proper guidance for them. Then came an idea of starting a Hotel. The first building of the present Hotel was purchased in 1978 and 50 Buses and Cars of our own.

As the business is in the right direction, Bankers came forward to help us by giving loans for construction of rooms and purchase of tourist buses and cars. Now we have 90 Rooms Complex 'Hotel Southern' at Karol Bagh, New Delhi.

We employed young boys from Southern States knowing Telugu, Tamil Kannada and Malayalam at the respective travel counters. This was an added attraction. We also started serving the best South Indian food. Thus the organisation started attracting more tourists.

Shri A. Krishna Mohan, our Managing Director and Shri A.V. Praveen Kumar, our Executive Director both sons of Shri A. V. Rao are Commerce Graduates from Delhi University and have done MBA from University of Madras. Thereafter, they joined in the business. They speak different South Indian languages.

The reasons for our success :-
Our aim is to extend best services at reasonable rates. This attracted middle-class Tourists who are in majority. Apart from business, customer service is very important . We take special care of the customers. On account of giving best services our company has become popular. Today we came upto to the level of getting the National Tourism Award from Ministry of Tourism, Government of India as the BEST DOMESTIC TOUR OPERATOR in the country. The Award was presented to us at a function held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 27-02-08 . Any orgnaisation which pays personal attention and take care of the customers will grow automatically. This is our main experience.

Our Chairman, Shri A. Venkateswara Rao was holding some of the prestigious positions in the Tourism, Banking and Religious Trusts .

1. Chairman, Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation, A Govt. Undertaking, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
2. Member, Tourism Promotion Council, Government of Andhra Pradesh.
3. Member of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Board, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh
4. Director, Vysya Bank Limited, Bangalore.
5. Member of Central Board of Film Censors.
6. Chairman, Sri Venkateswara College, New Delhi

Our future plans : As the hospitality industry is growing, there is a tremendous demand for hotels and restaurants in all major cities. We are in the process of constructing 3 Star Hotels before Commonwealth Games in Delhi and Nagpur.

Merit Scholarships : We are giving honorarium to the merit students every year irrespective of caste / economic status in Delhi and in Andhra Pradesh.

Institute of Tourism & Travel Management : We are planning to start an Institute shortly to train technical manpower for the hospitality industry.

We are pioneers in the travel business for the last 34 years. We have a fleet of 30 coaches/ cars of our own, with a network of offices at New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, 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 an people 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.

Dear Guest,

As an esteemed customer of our company, we hearty welcome you along with your family members & friends to M/s. Southern Travels Pvt. Ltd., as you might be aware that we were well know, famous and major tour operator across India with its branches spread throughout the country, serving the zeal for travel needs and desires of the intending customers, to their utmost satisfaction and with due respect we intimate you that we sincerely offer the required services as per the requirements of each and every customer, while making them to feel happy and to keep record of such sweet memorable moments of travel experience with us.

It may also be recalled that very recently, we were been conferred with the prestigious NATIONAL TOURISM AWARD as the 'BEST DOMESTIC TOUR OPERATOR'in INDIA. This award received at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on 27/02/2008 through the hands of Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Union Minister for External Affairs, in the presence of Smt. Ambica Soni, Union Minister for Tourism & Culture.

We believe that in this a era of specialization, the travel and tour operators have to play a vital role in promoting the Tourism Industry and with this concept in mind, we strive hard to provide best services to our esteemed customers and make them happy with their everlasting memories, with us.

Travel, we believe is like an un-ending passage of time. It is, on the contrary, a change to learn and unleash, to renew the old relationships and to build new ones to cherish one's faith. In other words, it is like a journey that never ends. Out constant endeavour is to surpass and to put forth world class standards, to make your travel safe, pleasant, comfortable, memorable and most satisfying event. With the world changing at a fast pace, we appreciate your choice to TRUST and to RELY upon us, for all your travel needs.

Looking forward for your sure, true co-operation and continued patronage which we shall always admire.

With warm regards

A. Venkateswara Rao, M.A
Chairman