Zishaan Hayat wins In.com’s online travel reality show Fantastic 5

Web18’s In.com and South African Tourism have announced the winner of the online travel reality show Fantastic 5 - the South Africa Chapter, where five young travellers shared their travel experience through Web18’s blogging platform Blish.In.com. According to Web18, Zishaan Hayat, a 27-year-old graduate from IIT Bombay, who has won the contest, will get to work on an assignment with the ‘Better Photography’ magazine and also get a wild card entry into the next season of the show.

“It gives us immense pleasure to announce the winner of Fantastic Five, Zishaan Hayat. Fantastic Five not only gave the finalists a chance to experience South Africa like never before, but it also gave the world a chance to see this incredible country though their eyes,” Surya Mantha, CEO, Web18, has said. “The series has been more successful than we had expected and we are all geared up to launch the second season of this adventure series in the coming future.”

Medha Sampat, country head, India, South African Tourism, has said, “We at South African Tourism are very pleased with the response generated by this initiative. This was our first tryst with the online medium, giving us the opportunity to reach out to a wide universe of travellers with all the wonderful things that South Africa has to offer, in real time! Our best wishes to Zishaan and all the other contestants of the Fantastic Five contest.”