Digital Public Infrastructure
for National Tourism.

Every tourism stakeholder. One sovereign domain. Discoverable on Google by any traveller in the world. Zero commission. Live intelligence for the Ministry.

Appless, no download required
0% OTA commission
6 patents filed
Live platform, operational today
Deployable on any sovereign domain

Three layers.
One compounding system.

Every stakeholder who joins KHOJ gets all three layers activated simultaneously, on the sovereign national domain, at no per-booking cost.

01
Discovery

Found on Google, AI Search & Maps

Your business is discovered when travellers search for experiences, destinations and services.

Patent protected · Proximity-Node Merchant Discovery

02
Conversation

Direct conversation via WhatsApp

Travellers connect with you instantly. No middleman, no broker, no communication fees.

Commission-free · operator keeps 100% of the relationship

03
Conversion

Payment direct to the operator

Booking and payment flow directly through your gateway. Zero commission, zero settlement delay.

Zero OTA dependency · money stays in the economy

How a tourist in Berlin
finds and books a heritage stay in Rajasthan.

End to end, five steps, one sovereign domain.

01
Searches Google
"Heritage stay India", searched from Berlin, in any language.
02
Lands on the Gov Domain
incredibleindia.gov.in. No app, no login, no intermediary.
03
WhatsApp Owner
Talks directly with the operator, builds trust, customises the itinerary.
04
Pays Direct
Through the operator's own payment gateway, zero OTA commission.
05
Shares Video
Earns a $5 voucher for a geo-tagged post, indexed on Google forever.
Who gets a storefront
Heritage Hotels Homestays Adventure Operators International Travel Agents Jungle Lodges Himalayan Trekking Guides Backwater Houseboat Operators Pilgrimage Circuit DMCs Folk Performers Ayurvedic Retreat Masters Tribal Craft Artisans Street Food Trail Curators

A self-funding content engine
that grows every year.

On departure, every tourist receives a small reward voucher in exchange for uploading a personal geo-tagged video tagging the national hashtag.

2M authentic tourist-generated posts per year (at 20% participation)
$10M actual cost: $5 voucher × 2 million verified posts
$100M commercial equivalent: $50/piece via paid influencer campaigns
$90M net annual saving, compounding every year

The content is permanent and multilingual, reaching German, Japanese, Arabic and French audiences that no paid campaign has ever touched. Year 2 adds another 2 million posts on top of Year 1's corpus. The discovery surface grows without further investment.

Who owns what.
Clearly.

KHOJ is infrastructure, not a platform. The government owns the domain, the data and the relationships. VDOlocal builds and operates the technology underneath.

The Governance Model

Ministry of TourismOwns the sovereign national domain · owns all tourist data · owns all demand intelligence · owns every stakeholder relationship · permanently.

VDOlocalBuilds and operates the underlying infrastructure · provides the technology, the onboarding, the AI layers and the platform operations under a service agreement.

KHOJ can be adapted for any country's sovereign national tourism domain and governance model.

Six Patents Filed

P1Proximity-Node Merchant Discovery
P2Association-Based Canonical Discovery Architecture
P3Retailer-Anonymised Institutional Product Discovery
P4Closed-Loop Supply-Side Content with Scrubbed Canonical Routing
P5System and Method for Institutional Canonical Discovery Infrastructure with Capability-Declared Member Profiling, AI Raw-Material Visualisation and Demand-Intelligence Routing
P6Platform Native Canonical Discovery Architecture (PNCDA), the umbrella patent covering the complete system

What the national authority
receives in return.

Every search, booking, zero-result and review generates live intelligence, permanently owned by the government, sitting on the sovereign domain.

Live Demand Intelligence

Real-time demand by district, category & origin.

Master Itinerary Engine

AI-powered itinerary organisation across theme, budget & geography.

Verified Reputation Layer

Trust through reviews linked to completed, paid bookings, not self-attributed ratings.

International Travel Agent Registry

New revenue stream through paid agent subscriptions on the national domain.

Sovereign Data Ownership

Every tourist record, every booking belongs to the government.

5-Minute Onboarding

Any stakeholder can go live in their own language, instantly.

Ready to explore KHOJ
for your country?

We have built this. It is live, operational, and ready to deploy on any sovereign national tourism domain.

or email [email protected] directly
Krishan Jagtiani · Founder, VDOlocal · +91 93225 07755 · vdolocal.com