Sudhir Sundrani

Portugal had its biggest tourism year on record in 2025 — 32.5 million guests, 82.1 million overnight stays, with tourism receipts reaching €29.1 billion, a 5% increase on 2024, according to the Bank of Portugal and INE. But the more interesting number is buried in the regional breakdown. The headline destinations (Lisbon, the Algarve) grew modestly, while off-radar Portuguese islands with golden sands like Porto Santo gained some interest.

Sudhir Sundrani is the founder of G8Trip, an AI travel planner he started in Bengaluru after eighteen years building digital products at ShareChat, Dailyhunt, and Vizury. He calls himself a DIY traveler first and a founder second — the kind of person who tests his own product live, mid-trip, somewhere off the coast of Bali. We asked him two things. What’s G8Trip doing differently in a category that already has a dozen AI trip planners chasing the same idea?

Sudhir Sundrani 1 article Sudhir Sundrani is the founder of G8Trip, an AI travel planner. Before that, he spent eighteen years building digital products at ShareChat, Dailyhunt, and Vizury, with IIT Kanpur somewhere underneath it all. He's traveled to fifteen-plus countries — most recently Bali, where he tested his own product live, mid-trip. Bengaluru-based.