For a traveler trying to book three nights at a jungle lodge near Pench Tiger Reserve, the process usually involves WhatsApp threads with property owners, a phone call to confirm a safari permit, and a bank transfer to a name they have never heard of. MyResorts.in, a small marketplace based in Nagpur, is trying to consolidate that mess into a single checkout. The company describes itself as "India's only jungle resort booking platform" focused on stays in Pench, Kanha, and Tadoba [Myresorts.in].
That positioning is narrower than it sounds, and that is the point. The big Indian online travel agencies (MakeMyTrip, Booking.com, Agoda) treat wildlife properties as a long-tail category buried under beach resorts and city hotels. Inventory is patchy, safari logistics sit outside the booking flow, and the properties themselves are often family-run lodges that do not show up cleanly in a global distribution system. MyResorts.in is wedging into that gap with a vertical marketplace, advertising deals, discounts, and 24x7 customer support against a curated set of central Indian jungle properties [Myresorts.in].
The bet
The ICP here is specific: a domestic Indian leisure traveler, often a family or a small group from Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, or Bengaluru, planning a three-to-five night wildlife trip into Madhya Pradesh or eastern Maharashtra. The budget owner is the trip planner in the family, not a corporate travel desk, and the renewal motion is repeat seasonal bookings rather than a contract. Average order values in this segment can run from roughly twelve thousand to over a hundred thousand rupees per stay depending on the property, which makes even a small marketplace economically interesting if the take rate holds.
The company also runs at least one of its own physical properties under the brand. Myresorts.in Camping in Teliya, on the edge of Pench, is listed on Tripadvisor and currently ranked first of two specialty lodging options in that village [Tripadvisor]. That is a small denominator, but it gives the marketplace something most pure aggregators lack: a captive property to test pricing, occupancy, and guest experience without negotiating with a third-party owner.
Why the category could be bigger than it looks
Indian wildlife tourism has been quietly compounding. Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra and the Kanha-Pench corridor in Madhya Pradesh have become anchor destinations for a domestic safari market that increasingly mirrors what East Africa built around the Mara and the Serengeti. The supply side is fragmented: dozens of small lodges, a handful of luxury operators like Taj Safaris, and a long tail of forest department guesthouses. That fragmentation is exactly the condition under which a vertical marketplace can earn its keep, provided it solves permit booking, transfers, and guide assignment alongside the room night.
The competitive set is worth naming carefully. Pench Jungle Camp, Kanha Jungle Camp, and Tadoba Jungle Camp are all single-property operators with their own direct booking sites [Pench Jungle Camp][Kanha Jungle Camp][Tadoba Jungle Camp]. They are suppliers more than competitors, though each captures direct demand that a marketplace would prefer to intermediate. My Resort Booking, a similarly named platform, plays in adjacent inventory [My Resort Booking]. The larger threat is the OTAs deciding the category is worth a dedicated merchandising surface, and the quieter threat is WhatsApp itself, which remains the default booking channel for a meaningful share of these properties.
The team and what is shipping
MyResorts.in is based in Nagpur, which is the right city for this thesis. Nagpur sits roughly equidistant from Pench, Kanha, and Tadoba and serves as the practical air gateway for travelers heading into all three reserves. The company is listed as unfunded on Tracxn's 2025 profile [Tracxn, 2025], which is consistent with the lifestyle-business shape of the operation today: a focused regional marketplace, a small captive property, and a social presence on Facebook and LinkedIn [Facebook][LinkedIn]. Early Tripadvisor reviews of the Teliya camping product are positive, which matters more than it might seem in a category where a single bad review on a property page can erase a month of paid acquisition.
What the bears say, and the bull answer
The most credible pushback is that a three-park geographic wedge is too thin to support a venture-scale outcome, and that the larger OTAs can replicate any curation work the moment the category shows real GMV. Tracxn classifies the company as unfunded and small [Tracxn, 2025], and the public footprint is modest. The bull answer is that wildlife travel is a trust-driven purchase where vertical expertise (which gate to enter on which day, which naturalist to request, which lodge actually delivers a tiger sighting) is genuinely defensible, and that owning at least one property gives MyResorts.in a margin structure the pure aggregators cannot match. Lifestyle-scale today does not preclude regional category leadership tomorrow, particularly if the team expands the inventory map into Bandhavgarh, Satpura, and Nagzira.
| Property | Role for MyResorts.in | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Pench (MP/Maharashtra) | Core inventory market | [Myresorts.in] |
| Kanha (MP) | Core inventory market | [Myresorts.in] |
| Tadoba (Maharashtra) | Core inventory market | [Myresorts.in] |
| Teliya camping site | Owned property, Tripadvisor #1 of 2 | [Tripadvisor] |
What to watch
The next twelve months are about whether MyResorts.in can convert a regional booking habit into a defensible inventory position. Three signals would matter: an expansion of listed properties beyond the Pench-Kanha-Tadoba triangle into Bandhavgarh or Satpura, a first disclosed funding round that would signal the founders want to push past lifestyle scale, and any packaging of safari permits inside the booking flow rather than as a post-purchase coordination task. None of those are guaranteed. But the wedge is real, the geography is right, and the category is one of the few in Indian travel where a vertical operator can still out-curate the giants.
Procurement note for readers thinking about this as a buyer: the ICP is the Indian domestic wildlife traveler, the budget owner is the household trip planner, and the renewal motion is seasonal repeat bookings driven by sighting quality and lodge experience. The realistic competitive set is direct property websites (Pench, Kanha, and Tadoba Jungle Camps), the horizontal OTAs whenever they choose to merchandise the category, and WhatsApp. Watch retention before you watch growth.