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Recap 2009: Online Travel
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 his views about the recession driven economy. OTA’s started bolstering non air revenue streams like bus travel as well as [...]
Online Travel Updates – Cleartrip Launches Chat Bot Train Search & Makemytrip Introduces Holiday Homes
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 new for their users.
Cleartrip Launches Chat Bot Booking Agent For Trains
Cleartrip has launched what one would call a Chat bot based search engine for trains. A user [...]
Cleartrip ties up with Itzcash – Alternative payment systems finding more takers.
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 as they just a month ago started accepting debit cards and international cards which is said to have boosted their sales by 10% [...]
Recap 2008: Online Travel
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, aggregation or even shut down the online travel space has seen it all during this year. It would be an understatement to [...]
Cleartrip Powers Hotel Search & Booking On IRCTC Website
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 the exclusive partner to IRCTC’s website railtourismindia.com to power hotel search and booking on the same.
Cleartrip had been more in the news lately [...]
The Indian OTA Nose Dive – Where Is The Value Beyond The Ticket?
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 like Jet, Kingfisher and Air India had pulled the plug on agent commissions of 5% and [...]
Cleartrip Launches Cleartrip For Business – Diversification In Tough Times?
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 allows corporates to book their domestic and International air tickets, hotels and Rail tickets and gives discounts of 5% on hotel bookings and 10% on [...]
State of Affairs: WATBlog Analyses The Indian Online Travel Space
The online travel segment has been one of the best performing in the e-commerce space in India and has been amongst the fastest growing as well. If a government driven portal can make money by the millions then surely there is no question about its scale and success. Recently, the sector has seen a flurry of activities including newer features, potential mergers, international deals, funding and even pink slips which strangely didn’t stuck out as a sore thumb. WATBlog decided to do a follow up of our much appreciated Bird’s eye view of the Indian online travel niche we covered in May.
Online Travel Update: Cleartrip Lays Off 42 & Zoomtra Goes International
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. This space is seeing a downturn.
So here are the updates on all thats happening:
Cleartrip lays off 42 people – This news [...]
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
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 their business models to grow beyond their existing revenue sources.
At a recent summit I spoke to Amitabh Pandey, the head of [...]
Jeevansathi.com Match Point – The Retail Point – Launched
Jeevansaathi.com has introduced its brick-n-mortar retail store branded – Jeevansathi.com Match Point. It plans to open up 25-30 retail stores in 6 months. The first one has already come up in Lucknow.
Exclusive WATShow With Hrush Bhatt – Founder Cleartrip.com
Cleartrip recently got funding of 18.5 Million Dollars but just before they got that we were lucky enough to catch up with Hrush Bhatt for an exclusive interview with WATShow.
We questioned Hrush on the following:
1) What’s the differentiation between Cleartrip and other Online Travel Portals?
2) How important is logistics in online travel business?
3) Why did Cleartrip launch Rail Search?
4) What’s the idea behind the blog?
Wanna see this WATShow?
Click the link below: http://www.watshow.com/2008/03/18/exclusive-interview-with-hrush-bhatt-founder-cleartripcom/
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Cleartrip Gets “More Money Than Required!” – 18.5 M $!
Talk about the roof giving way and a windfall of money falling from it and it just doesn’t stop raining money! Im sure if one were to visit the cleartrip office in mumbai a similar scene atleast in context of the news just in can be visualized. So more funding has come into the [...]
Online Travel Portals Taking Flight To Offer Cool Discount Deals
Most travel portals are catching up on the festival spree that starts right from the months Aug-Sept-Oct each year as the volume of travelers through Air, Road and Rail increases. The travel portals are coming out with a lot of discount offers such as Buy1-Get1 FREE or 50% cash back as a promotional tool which [...]
Cleartrip launches sms based ticketing service
Cleartrip.com the sherpalo ventures funded travel site has launched an sms based service that aloows users to book tickets through their mobile phones. According to contentsutra Cleartrip has alliances with eight airlines, and to limit the length of the message, they’re restricting results to 8 deals and using airline display codes (example: DC for Air [...]