Traffic To Travel Sites In India Increases By 32 percent: ComScore

by | posted: June 6, 2011
As a part of The State of the Internet India report, Comscore released stats on the online travel industry in India. The stats reveal that traffic to these travel sites has increased by 32%, from 13.9...
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Concur Expands Into India With $40 Mn Investment In Cleartrip

by | posted: April 19, 2011
When both public and private sectors are aiming to reduce cost, some companies are getting opportunities to cash in on that. Concur Technologies Inc is such a firm. Their CEO Steve Singh said, “When...
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SnapDeal Breaks Into Top 100 Indian Websites

by | posted: November 22, 2010
We know that the group buy/daily deal sites witnessed major traffic growth in September. One of these – SnapDeal.com has carried on that momentum and broken into the top 100 for India according to...
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WWW: WAT Weekly WrapUp 8th August – 15th August 2010

by | posted: August 16, 2010
This week saw the Blackberry – DoT saga continue. Most companies faced a tough week as RCOM and Airtel results showed losses, Cleartrip’s CEO and Director were arrested, Google’s South...
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Cleartrip’s Small World: Making the World a Smaller Place

by | posted: June 1, 2010
In a move towards setting itself apart from its competitors , Cleartrip has launched Small World. Small World is a travel search tool which claims to cover 3.2 million places on Earth. Possibly the most...
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Cleartrip Launches Services in UAE

by | posted: May 5, 2010
Cleartrip has announced the launch of cleartrip.ae – a specially customised booking / traveling portal for the travelers in the UAE. The new, completely localised portal for UAE scours the internet...
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Recap 2009: Online Travel

by | posted: December 29, 2009
The year started with some bad news for OTA’s as the economy was still reeling under the pressure of recession and 26/11 shock of 2008. We interviewed Deep Kalra of Makemytrip early this year on...
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Online Travel Updates – Cleartrip Launches Chat Bot Train Search & Makemytrip Introduces Holiday Homes

by | posted: March 4, 2009
The Indian OTA’s are constantly innovating with both technology and alternative offerings to attract travellers to book via their platform. So both cleartrip and makemytrip have launched something...
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Cleartrip ties up with Itzcash – Alternative payment systems finding more takers.

by | posted: February 10, 2009
Cleartrip recently tied up with Itz cash to provide customers with a wide variety of payment options. This is certainly inline with cleartrip policy of providing more payment options to their customers...
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Recap 2008: Online Travel

by | posted: December 31, 2008
The year 2008 can be termed as the year of online travel as this space has seen immense traction all throughout the year. Whether it was launching of discounted travel, expansions, acquisitions, investments,...
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Cleartrip Powers Hotel Search & Booking On IRCTC Website

by | posted: December 9, 2008
Cleartrip which had earlier included railway train search and then booking availability on its travel portal seems to have strengthen the ties further with IRCTC. Cleartrip has announced that it has become...
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The Indian OTA Nose Dive – Where Is The Value Beyond The Ticket?

by | posted: December 8, 2008
We had recently taken a look at the state of affairs in the Online Travel scene and concluded that a slowdown was eminent. Recently there was a lot of heart burn and more on the fact that major airlines...
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Cleartrip Launches Cleartrip For Business – Diversification In Tough Times?

by | posted: November 21, 2008
Cleartrip.com has launched a new website  their corporate travel customers in Cleartripforbusiness.com which is sort of a travel planner cum booking engine which is targetted to help corporates cut costs. It...
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State of Affairs: WATBlog Analyses The Indian Online Travel Space

by | posted: September 24, 2008
Innovations, deals, slowdown, growth, if anyone has been tracking the Online Travel Agents and Portals space lately it is abuzz with news of all kinds. The highs and travails of being one of the few successful...
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Online Travel Update: Cleartrip Lays Off 42 & Zoomtra Goes International

by | posted: September 12, 2008
Online travel is seeing some interesting news offlate. Right from launching of non flight services to going international to even laying off people due to the travel price hikes and slowdown in the economy....
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Travel Update: Travel Portals Looking at Models Beyond Ticketing as Margins Dwindle. A Birds Eye View of Online Travel in India and Insights on the Future

by | posted: May 22, 2008
Firstly I don’t think many of the ‘travel’ portals that mainly sell tickets can be considered as ‘travel’ portals anyway. They are ticketing portals. Or rather they were. Some of them are changing...
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