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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.

Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), a subsidiary of the Indian Railways is known for bringing a change in Indian Railway Ticketing model; from pioneering online train ticket booking to mobile phone and SMS platforms.

Recently, at Proto.in Delhi Chapter, we caught up with Sanjay Aggarwal, GM, IRCTC who shared some insights of IRCTC [...]

Here comes the opportunity of finally going paperless, as far as bus tickets are concerned. Thanks to Ticketvala.com, all you need to do is pay for it online and get the ticket delivered straight to your mobile.

 
Brace up. After the 15th of June, you probably will be able to use your mobile phone as a debit card or a credit card.
 
 
The Reserve Bank of India, in its annual policy statement on Tuesday, said it was in the process of formulating the guidelines for a payment system using mobile phones. RBI is in [...]

The railways plan to tap some 100, 000 recharge vendors and mobile phone service providers to offer cellphone ticketing across India.
 
 
“When you go to a recharge shop for a top-up, all you need to do is to ask the vendor to also accept separate payment for the railway ticket. The money deposited for the ticket [...]

Few days back we had discussed about MakeMyTrip.com launching online railway booking for the railway packages that are available on the website. Recently Cleartrip.com has announced a beta launch of Cleartrip’s New Train Search on www.cleartrip.com/trains. This facility will enable the users to search train route and compare fares of most of the trains in [...]

Recently we had discussed about MakeMyTrip launching “Holiday Plus” packages for international travelers. With the feature of airline and hotels booking MakeMyTrip.com now makes itself more comfortable for the users by adding the online railway booking system to their site.
 
 
On this Mr. Sachin Bhatia, CMO & Co-Founder (MakeMyTrip) said, “ We endeavor to be the [...]

Well its raining startups this saturday so we have clubbed three of them in the part 1 of this saturday. All 3 of them either belong to ecommerce, information or the classifieds space.
Let the startups roll..
Ninemotion - Ninemotion is a service marketplace Very much like rentacoder or elance where small businesses who are looking [...]

Indian railways is changing - and we hope it is for the better!We didn’t really have the best of experiences in a recent trip we made to Kanpur.
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) will be very shortly launching a separate travel portal within its existing www.irctc.co.in that will give travel destinations, hotels and [...]