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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.

Tripadvisor the travel community portal backed by Expedia has launched in India under the domain name tripadvisor.in. India alreday boasts of local travel portals launching their own travel community sites like Oktatabyebye by Makemytrip and Raahi by Yatra.com. Recently even WAYN the popular international travel community had launched in India and also hired a local [...]

Update: Travelguru Founder has denied the story but speculation still exists and now the valuation is being pegged at 75 million $ and acquisition at a higher amount!
 
Earlier Posted:The travel scene has been an overcrowded one and we have been blogging about both the amount of funding and the number of funded players since quite [...]

With vacations around, different travel portals will have their own offers for attracting the customers. The online travel market is increasing. Many new players are getting into the travel business with a thought of growing large. International players are now targeting the Indian travel business. Sometime back we have mentioned about Expedia to launch [...]

We have mentioned earlier how the Indian Online travel space is one of the most crowded spaces in the Internet arena. Also now international players are also wanting to be a part of this crowd. So if earlier it was Travelocity which opened an india site with hotel bookings in march in a few months [...]