Creating Happy Travellers - new contest from Yatra.com

@Renie - What is the hashtag for the contest.  #HappyTravellers or #HappyTraveller ? Contest page doesn't clears it.

It's #HappyTravellers - sorry about the typo in the prizes section, it's been corrected!

can we post a combination of travel experiences or in a post only one experience

How is this contest different from the Road Trip Competition. They both look the same to me.

Actually not much difference, but still finding differences is not a difficult task. 

The focus of the other contest was the road ( because Ambi Pur is used in a car which moves on the road ) While the focus here is the entire trip including travel, hotel etc ( because one can book everything through Yatra ) It's a different thing that everyone submitted travelogues for the road trip contest....

prizes are different

@ Nandini Your answer reminds me of the Write the differences between .. type of questions at school 

Creating Happy Travellers...But Yatra.com domain is expired today..what a big failure !!!!

Reading your message, I thought that they forgot to renew the domain. 

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LOL!!! That was such a fail. I wish I was able to buy the domain as soon as theirs expired, but I guess they would have had a domain lock down.

is it back???

Renie Yatra has not renewed its domain so kindly verify whether the contest is still on.  I have already posted a article regarding it 

> http://www.tropicalpost.com/breaking-yatra-com-fails-to-renew-its-website-domain-registration/

it seems now their www.yatra.com is working fine

nop its down, i checked just now...

I was not lucky enough to see that buy this domain page. 

yatra website is down .... what happened ? 

Can I write a travelogue in two or more parts and submit the link seperately for this contest? Or should i consolidate all of the links in a single post?

Yes Prasanna, you can. You should submit the link of your first part on IndiVine. At the end of your first post in your blog, give the link to the second part.

[ Note : Animesh asked the same question for one of the contests and Renie gave the above answer ]

Thanks Ranjith :) Will do that

Received an update from Renie and the contest is very much on.  Dont worry about the website guys, some person at Yatra may have forgotten to renew it and it may soon be up

Forgetting to renew such a big website is the funniest thing. 

HAHA Ranjith and it runs its business from the portal thats more surprising

they dont have a land office??

Travelling with pen.. Is it enough for an entry..?

One line entry? 

Who knows? The judges may like your single line creativity. 

That pen has something in it !!

Gimme Judge's phone number.. I will let them know 

The details of the judges are top secrets. No one knows who are the judges. 

You may try kidnapping Renie. 

I am Decent.. Dont push me t0 kidnap someone !

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Pen is ready.. where is the paper..?

wish the submission date  could have been shifted a bit more in sept. o_0

  Seems you are the shifting officer 

nope. jus running outta tym.

Time and tide wait for no man 

@ Razi Stuti is a woman. So, time may wait. 

I am not time 

water on my nokia...the question??? to tab or not to tab...samsung galaxy tab3 has anybody tried it?????????

I have the following Queries:

1. We can 'take our family or friends' to just any one specific single 'place on the planet'? Or can we cover a number of places (close together to be covered in 1 trip!)?

(So many places on my exploration map!!!)

Want to be clear about this- 'place' can mean just a village/city? or country? or continent?

What does Yatra exactly expect from our post?

2. Making our 'trip the happiest one ever' would be based on our imagination, right? But, happiness- level & idea- differs from person to person!

(Knowing the Judges idea of Happiness makes sense!!!)

Please help! :)

1. I think  you can cover any number of places in any planet but should be under a post 

Place is as simple as place .. why so much confusion about it..? 

2. Post which one made you happier.. defenitely the Jury also will be happy with them.. 

Nb:- All are my views not Jury's 

Thanks for your views,  Razi!

Look Nice & simple!

1. I wanted clarification about 'place' coz the Qn is-

'If you could take your family or friends to any place on the planet'... :)

For me, Place can be Planet Earth as I wanna explore the whole Planet! World Tour will do! :)

2. As the post will be about a place we have never visited before, but wish to visit, what we do there will be a fictional account!

Unless someone writes about a place she/he has already visited! But, why do that when a whole world of choices is available! :)

N.B- Just want to be sure of what is expected...

Please do share your views.

write anything...only dont forget to put yatra link

@Nandini That keeps the world of choices open for yatra! Pick N # of places & happiness:)

Be a happy.. be a traveller.. Leave the rest in to your mind and keyboard.. 

Happily travelling in my mind! Yet to leave the rest to my keyboard!!!

Extension beckons 

Now that the contest is extended, I can be lazy for few more days! 

Where do we see the enteries......I have sent my entry but I am not able to see it in my posts....

You will be able to see it only after submissions close i.e. after 9/9/13.

Now, extend The Character. 

yes.. and draw some rabbits for me too!

m just being optimistic !

no T&C are mentioned on the page,

will the winners be expected to pay tax on their gits ?

For all the contests which have been organised till now, winners were not asked to pay any taxes. So, it will probably be the same with this contest too. 

gits?

gifts 

F is for Flipkart - as the WeChat Flipkart vouchers are not yet delivered, DK is protesting 

when did she mention F?

ND  She missed f in gifts --> gits 

thanks for pointing that out, my bad !

you can hv as many f's as you want ,

but Phew ! that's a relief to know , NO TAX!

Blogging contests don't have prizes big enough for the Sponsors to insist on the winner paying the involved tax. The TDS that is deducted for prizes that fall in the tax bracket sometimes need a PAN number of the winner. This TDS is reflected in your tax statement for the year... so if a sponsor does ask for your PAN number, do remember to ask for the TDS certificate as you may need it when you file your return.

Hi arvind , 

I hv come across a number of companies that insist on the winner to get a gift tax challan and only then are they given the prizes , i.e. 33% of the value of the gift.

Remember the shave or crave contest from Gillette ,

Well I had to pay a huge tax for my trip to Paris ,

So was just making sure same is not the case , here.

o yes...in shave or crave they wanted tax for the ipads too...there was bit of brouhaha thread here too regarding that

I tried searching for that thread and Google showed me another dishkyaon IB thread. 

@Arvind - I never knew about having to ask for the TDS certificate. Thanks for the info.

@Disha-

When I won a cash-prize in a Quiz from Red FM, I was given a cheque with an amount 33% less than what I had won.

However, in another Quiz from the same Radio Channel, when I won a trip to Bangkok to attend the Bangla Film Awards, Red FM sponsored the whole trip and I had to pay nothing. Even Lux did not demand anything for the London-Meet-Abhishek-Aishwarya-Trip.

Ditto when my kid won Colombo-Meet-Yuvraj-Singh-Trip from HUL and HK Disneyland trips from Kurkure & Disney India. However, this year, when she was again shortlisted by Disney India, we got to learn that a tax amount per family-member was to be paid owing to the stricter laws now.

In most cases, they clearly announce if Tax is to be borne... Didn't Gillette inform you about the same before you won?

Wish they do then we know exactly what to expect. Anyway, those bitten by the travel-bug will spend!

ANITA...u have won so many travel packages?? 

@Nandini & @Razi - Just 1 out of the 100s I took part!   

Self-wins have a great charm!

Wonderful to learn about the talent here! Your Smileys suit @Disha best!

Some day I should be more deserving to earn them (the above Smileys) for myself!!!

still you are a winner 

Winners never Quit! Trying to Win!

Let me start a Quit winner movement !! 

Razi, If U start the 'Quit Winner' Movement, it might move you to Quit Winning yourself!

Anita.. See Let me be a winner first 

Great! No 'Quit Winner Movement' then!

I will quit when I win this for sure 

Razi, 'Winners never Quit & Quitters Never Win!'

Let me win to quit or quit to win then