Comments on: State of Affairs: WATBlog Analyses The Indian Online Travel Space http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/24/state-of-affiars-watblog-analyses-the-indian-online-travel-space/ The Refreshing Blog on Web, Advertising and Technology in India! Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:15:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Maneesh Madambath http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/24/state-of-affiars-watblog-analyses-the-indian-online-travel-space/#comment-11519 Maneesh Madambath Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:30:39 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/?p=5226#comment-11519 Nice set of .co.in s there Ravi ;) Nice set of .co.in s there Ravi ;)

]]> By: Ravi Venkatraman http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/24/state-of-affiars-watblog-analyses-the-indian-online-travel-space/#comment-11511 Ravi Venkatraman Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:45:37 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/?p=5226#comment-11511 The only reason the OTA's look attractive is because the Indian OTA's report the Gross booking revenue in their press release. If they start reporting the Net revenue, it would show the true picture. The only reason the OTA’s look attractive is because the Indian OTA’s report the Gross booking revenue in their press release.
If they start reporting the Net revenue, it would show the true picture.

]]> By: Maneesh Madambath http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/24/state-of-affiars-watblog-analyses-the-indian-online-travel-space/#comment-11463 Maneesh Madambath Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:35:58 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/?p=5226#comment-11463 Hi Piyush.... <a href="http://www.watblog.com/2008/02/04/makemytripcom-launches-online-railway-ticket-booking/" rel="nofollow">MakeMyTrip.com Launches Online Railway Ticket Booking For Railway Holiday Packages</a> WATblog had done the above post about makemytrip on Feb 4... And on Feb 7 WAT announced Cleartrip launching train bookings the link below <a href="http://www.watblog.com/2008/02/07/cleartripcom-launches-online-railway-ticket-search/" rel="nofollow">Cleartrip.com Launches Online Railway Travel Search</a> Makemytrip had a tie up with IRCTC to offer train bookings for their holiday packages which at that time no one else had. So yes in that way I got it totally wrong by saying they launched train search first. However, if you read the Cleartrip post, you will see that erail.in had already been offering this service before Cleartrip launched it..Also, Rediff launched the same service (this<a href="http://www.watblog.com/2008/07/03/rediff-follows-cleartrip-footsteps-launches-train-search-an-outcome-of-air-ticket-hike/" rel="nofollow"> post here</a>). So I guess that puts you in the dock along with me as well in being wrong about something :) It is the only OTA to have train bookings, yes. But not the only one to have railway search. Anyway the point of that line I'd like to clarify here - Considering makemytrip had tied up with IRCTC to offer train bookings for rail holiday packages (only the holiday packages) exclusively, the fact that Cleartrip has gone ahead with complete train bookings might have taken the sail out of mmt's wings. Thanks for reading the post in detail though, makes me happy.. it is not often that I go beyond 1500 words in a post hehe... Hi Piyush….
MakeMyTrip.com Launches Online Railway Ticket Booking For Railway Holiday Packages

WATblog had done the above post about makemytrip on Feb 4…

And on Feb 7 WAT announced Cleartrip launching train bookings the link below
Cleartrip.com Launches Online Railway Travel Search

Makemytrip had a tie up with IRCTC to offer train bookings for their holiday packages which at that time no one else had. So yes in that way I got it totally wrong by saying they launched train search first.

However, if you read the Cleartrip post, you will see that erail.in had already been offering this service before Cleartrip launched it..Also, Rediff launched the same service (this post here). So I guess that puts you in the dock along with me as well in being wrong about something :)

It is the only OTA to have train bookings, yes. But not the only one to have railway search.

Anyway the point of that line I’d like to clarify here -
Considering makemytrip had tied up with IRCTC to offer train bookings for rail holiday packages (only the holiday packages) exclusively, the fact that Cleartrip has gone ahead with complete train bookings might have taken the sail out of mmt’s wings.

Thanks for reading the post in detail though, makes me happy.. it is not often that I go beyond 1500 words in a post hehe…

]]> By: Piyush http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/24/state-of-affiars-watblog-analyses-the-indian-online-travel-space/#comment-11458 Piyush Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:22:16 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/?p=5226#comment-11458 "Considering the fact that Makemytrip was the first to launch the much blogged about rail search service early this year, Cleartrip has certainly taken the wind out of their sails with this move." Dude you got it totally wrong! Cleartrip was the only OTA to launch train search and is the only ota to launch train bookings(not counting thomascook) “Considering the fact that Makemytrip was the first to launch the much blogged about rail search service early this year, Cleartrip has certainly taken the wind out of their sails with this move.”

Dude you got it totally wrong! Cleartrip was the only OTA to launch train search and is the only ota to launch train bookings(not counting thomascook)

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