Around 500 metres from the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi, a boutique bed and breakfast is offering a unique experience to travellers. Safarnama Varanasi provides the comfort of a hotel to backpackers.
A favourite among tourists visiting the city, the boutique bed and breakfast has served over 7,000 guests from over 50 countries since its inception in 2017. It remains one of the top-rated properties on platforms such as Airbnb, booking.com, GoIbibo, and others.
What makes it more unique is that the founder has no background in the hospitality industry. Avinav Peshwani is a geologist, and says the venture was born out of a passion to support sustainable tourism.
Avinav completed his graduation from IIT Dhanbad in 2015. On returning home, he decided to make a career in the hospitality industry. “I travelled across the UK, Shanghai and other parts of the world during my graduation. The experiences made me think about improving the state of tourism in my city. Foreign tourists…