Talk:Golden Chariot

Official site

There seems to be some edit warring going on as to which site to have as the external link. The two sites look very similar until you hit the "Online booking" button. When you do this from http://www.thegoldenchariot.co.in/ you stay within that site, but when you do so from http://www.goldenchariot.com/ you get taken off to some outfit called "Palace Tours". I would interpret that as meaning that the .co.in site is the official Golden Chariot site which should be linked, and the .com site is a travel agent attempting to spam us with an official looking site.

Could the people who have been edit-warring please comment? Phil Bridger (talk) 10:10, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Official Site

I was also under the same impression that the .co.in site was the "official site" when I looked closely that it belongs to another travel agency "Luxury Trains". I know for a fact that Karnataka State Tourism Board owns the train. I called Palace Tours just now - they gave me the real site http://www.goldenchariot.org and it seems both of these companies are selling the same train. Both have their own contact information in CONTACT US pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michele.wynd (talk • contribs) 14:15, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Official site

The Luxury Trains has in fact been appointed as the worldwide marketing partner for marketing and sales of The Golden Chariot, by The Karnataka State Tourism Development Corporation. This was the reason to build up http://www.thegoldenchariot.co.in/ last year and when the train was flagged off in march 08, our CEO was all over in the Indian news (Mr. Sajivve Trehaan).

Copyright issues aren't taken too seriously in some countries as we all know, and therefore copycats will pop up everywhere, as soon as business opportunities arise. The so called official site http://thegoldenchariot.org/ is also just one of them (check the contact address in New Delhi). Karnataka State Tourism office is actually in Bangalore. Check: karnatakatourism.org.

However, concerning http://www.goldenchariot.com/, the mister who owns this site also claims to be the "Official Web site of Ministry of Tourism, Government of India..." http://www.tourisminindia.com/ which has been designed and by http://www.inetindia.com/ which looks again very similar to "Palace Tours" http://palacetours.net/ ... too much coincidence? This can all be verified by doing a WHOIS search on the net.

I could go on and on with some more proofs, but right now, there's a law suit going on against Palace Tours.

Let me know you thoughts about copyrights and code hacking. I'm by the way the webmaster of http://www.theluxurytrains.com/

Theluxurytrains (talk) 10:03, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed - but I was referring to http://www.goldenchariot.org Is that not the Karnataka Tourism's Official Website for The Golden Chariot? Claim of having a lawsuit does not mean anything. I guess Palace Tours could have a lawsuit against you for public defamation. Who knows? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michele.wynd (talk • contribs) 21:35, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]