{"id":9045,"date":"2019-02-18T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/?page_id=9045"},"modified":"2019-03-17T09:57:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T09:57:16","slug":"things-you-did-not-know-about-sotc-check-them-out","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/things-you-did-not-know-about-sotc-check-them-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Things You did Not Know About SOTC! Check Them Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Some of you may have been with\u00a0SOTC for a long time&#8230; but we are sure there are still things you did not know about the company! We give you a few interesting\u00a0 facts about the organisation you belong to!<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Here goes:<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Switzerland, the town of Engelberg was renamed SOTC Indian Village in 1999.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SOTC is the only Indian tour operator to be awarded the prestigious Friends of Thailand Award in 2000.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2003, a customer travelling with an SOTC Brahman Mandal tour to Europe came back to India and wrote a book titled \u2018Parikrama of Western Europe\u2019. The book is an account of his journey \u2013 from the decision-making stage to homecoming \u2013 and talks of his experience as an SOTC customer!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pioneers in introducing the Holiday Now Pay Later facility.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pioneered in designing and marketing of escorted tours to cosmopolitan travellers in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Introduced the concept of Box Holidays.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SOTC was the first travel group to create a tour around the Seven New Wonders of the World.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pioneers in creating the concept of a Holiday Bazaar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cost Saver Tours were first introduced by SOTC.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SOTC Travel is the pioneer in Indian travel space to enter the integrated spiritual + leisure segment with the introduction of Spiritual Tours named Darshans.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Launched easy financing options for customers such as Holidays on EMI, Holiday Investment Plan, tie-ups with banks for cash back options.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pioneers in introducing regional tours \u2018Darshanam\u2019 for the South India Market.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pioneers to introduce SOTC The Enchanted Journey with YRF films that gave the travellers a real-life experience of the magnificent spectacle they had seen unfurl only on the screen.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\r\n<a style=\"color: rgb(68,79,247);\" href=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/\">Home<\/a>\r\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may have been with\u00a0SOTC for a long time&#8230; but we are sure there are still things you did not know about the company! We give you a few interesting\u00a0 facts about the organisation you belong to! Here goes: In Switzerland, the town of Engelberg was renamed SOTC Indian Village in 1999. 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