About Picknic

The best memories are travelled into being.

Picknic is a curated travel company from Chennai. We design journeys around the traveller — your people, your pace, your purpose — and we answer for every detail in between.

Our Story

Built on the belief that
travel transforms

Most travel companies sell places. We never quite believed in that. A place is only half the trip — the other half is who you are when you get there: the six-year-old who needs a pool by 4pm, the grandmother who wants the temple before the crowds, the couple marking ten years with a table that took three weeks to book.

So we built Picknic around a simple conviction — design for the memory, not the checklist. No two travellers see the world the same way, which is why no two Picknic journeys are the same. Every trip starts as a blank page and a conversation, and ends as a story a family tells for years.

Behind it is a team with 24 years of collective experience in travel — routes checked, hotels called, snacks packed — led by founders Dharmesh Bansal and Shalini Ramasundar.

“No templates. No shortcuts. Just extraordinary experiences crafted exclusively for you.”

Founded in Mumbai
2012
First International Programme
2016
Educational Travel launched
2019
5,000+ Families served
2024
The curator model

One journey, one curator, no queue

When you reach us, you get a curator — a real person who designs your journey from scratch and stays with it until you are home. Your Travel Thumbprint (seven quick questions) tells them how you travel; a callback within 2 hours (9am–9pm IST) starts the design. The curator books the flights, the stays, the visas and the restaurant that needed asking nicely — then answers the phone when plans wobble. Your trip never competes for attention.

Vision

To become a global leader in experiential travel — where every journey is a gateway to personal growth, cultural immersion, and lasting transformation.​

Mission

To design travel experiences that are so deeply personal and perfectly executed that our clients cannot imagine going anywhere without us.

Purpose

To make the world feel smaller, warmer, and more wondrous — one journey at a time — for families, students, and teams who deserve nothing less than extraordinary.

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The People Behind the Journeys

Meet the team
who designs your world

Dharmesh Bansal

Director

He is an entrepreneur who has built a thriving travel venture, successfully transforming it into one of the most trusted names across both MICE and FIT segments. With a sharp focus on quality and reliability (trust), he has consistently delivered seamless travel solutions at scale. His core philosophy centers on crafting exceptional, end-to-end travel experiences whether for corporate clients or for individual and family travellers.

Shalini Ramasundar

Director

She is an academician with over two decades spent shaping young minds through education and exploration. She blends rigours of class room teaching with innovation. “She excels in creating thoughtfully curated, child-centric journeys that transcend beyond traditional tourism to spark curiosity and stimulate learning.” Specializing in educational and sports tours, she brings deep expertise in designing experiences that are both enriching and motivating.

25+ Experience Designers. One shared obsession.
Every member of our team is a passionate traveller first, and a professional second.
How We Think

Our design philosophy

01
No Templated Itineraries

Every PicknicGo journey begins with a blank page. We don't recycle itineraries — we engineer them from scratch around your specific story, your family, your goals, and your definition of the perfect trip.

02
Emotion-Driven Design

We design for feelings first. Before we build an itinerary, we ask: what do you want to feel? Liberated? Inspired? Closer to family? The logistics follow the emotion — never the other way around.

03
Personalised at Every Step

From the airline seat to the dinner reservation, from the hotel pillow menu to the local guide's expertise — every detail of a PicknicGo journey is considered, confirmed, and curated for you, personally.

Travel with us

Tell us the trip you
want to remember.

Tell us your story. We’ll design an experience so perfectly yours, you’ll wonder how you ever travelled any other way.

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