State of Affairs: WATBlog Analyses The Indian Online Travel Space

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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Sanjay Aggarwal, GM, IRCTC On IRCTC’s growth, API and Future (via WATShow.com)

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...
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Ticketvala.com introduces mTicket – Will IRCTC Follow?

  I remember once being fined Rs 120 by a ticket collector just because I was too careless to sleep off with the ticket in my hand. Please tell me this happened to you too ‘coz I’m desperately...
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M – Commerce & Mobile Wallets A Reality in India Soon Courtesy the RBI Policy Statement on June 15

  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...
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Book Your Rail Tickets from Mobile Recharge Vendors. Your Phone may also be able to Book Tickets Soon.

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...
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Cleartrip.com Launches Online Railway Travel Search

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...
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MakeMyTrip.com Launches Online Railway Ticket Booking For Railway Holiday Packages

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...
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Saturday Startups – Part 1 – Ninemotion.com, Erail.in and HelloIntern.com!

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...
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Railways getting extremely Net-Savvy. Pizza delivery in trains soon!

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...
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