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....
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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

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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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...
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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