Indian travel search engine Zoomtra.com has launched a destination & travel review application, India Dekha, on two social networking sites Orkut and Facebook.

Published: 03 Jul 2008

Indian travel search engine Zoomtra.com has launched a destination & travel review application, India Dekha, on two social networking sites Orkut and Facebook.

According to the company, India Dekha, with more than 100,000 registered users, has already generated over 80,000 destination reviews.

According to the company, it is the first of its kind travel networking application, which collects public reviews about various places in India and allows the Orkut and Facebook users to select a destination, review and rate it. It also added that Zoomtra.com is the first Indian company to introduce a Facebook application and India Dekha was one of the first 20 global applications launched with Orkut's new open-social platform.

From a user's perspective, once the application is added to the account, the user can select any destination from the list to add it as hometown or a place visited or a desired destination and so on. Further to this, rating and reviews can be written about the place, shopping destinations, nightlife, etc. The other option is to make your own map and share it with the others.