Bussiness Ideas

Hookoom is a technology-enabled travel discovery and booking platform built on authentic traveler experiences. It addresses a key gap in the travel industry: people often rely on polished listings, advertisements, influencers when choosing stays, while everyday travelers who create useful travel content earn nothing when their recommendations lead to bookings. Hookoom follows a simple model: Book, Share, Earn. Travelers can discover accommodation through genuine guest stories, photos, videos, and reviews. After a verified stay, travelers can share their experiences on the platform. When their content helps another user discover and book a property, they can earn a commission or reward. This creates a fair value-sharing system for travelers while helping hotels, homestays, and property owners receive authentic and measurable marketing. The platform will use technology for booking linkage, stay verification, content moderation, fraud prevention, attribution tracking, and personalized travel discovery. Hookoom aims to make travel planning more transparent, reduce dependence on unreliable promotional content, and create earning opportunities for ordinary travelers without requiring them to be influencers. Hookoom is being developed as an India-first, Hinglish-friendly travel technology platform focused on community, trust, and creator-led commerce. Its core value is to help travelers make better choices.

Startup Teams

• 1 Sumit Shaw (Founder)
• 2 Sheelu (Director)
• 3 Atish Kumar Shaw (Director)
• 4 Sindhu Sinha (Director)

Incubation Details

• Incubator Name
  AIC-GBU Incubation Centre
• Incubator Host Institution
  Gautam Buddha University
• State
  Uttar Pradesh
• City
  Gautam Buddha Nagar