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Spice Televentures has announced the launch of a new venture in mobile software called Mobisoc Technology Pvt. Ltd. Mobisoc’s vision is to enable rich internet experience on all mobile phones. Part of the MK Modi Group and led by chairman Dilip Modi mobisoc has already announced a number of tie ups with leading web players [...]

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.

Mohit  Gupta has joined online travel agency MakeMyTrip.com as chief marketing officer.
 
Earlier, Gupta was vice-president, marketing, flavours, at PepsiCo International.
 
Commenting on his move from offline to online marketing, Gupta says, “The intention is to participate and contribute in those areas of marketing which are showing a higher growth.”
 
He adds, “At MakeMyTrip.com, I will look after marketing strategy, [...]

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 [...]

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.

We had recently blogged about how flight ticketing was getting plagued by cases of cyber crime primarily due to the high volumes of ticketing transactions that were happening online for booking flights. Both Air and Rail ticketing have taken off in a big way and the testimony to that is the fact that 82.5% of [...]

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 [...]

Online Travel can possibly compete for the crowded business space on the internet arena and possibly emerge as a winner as well. But this crowded space has two players which are scaling faster than the others. These two players are Yatra.com and Makemytrip.com.
While Makemytrip was helped by the fact that they were the first movers [...]

One of India’s biggest travel portal is now offering payment service trough the mobile phone. Users can search book tickets and pay instantly all from their mobile handset. All this would be possible trough a simple SMS.
Makemytrip has hade a tie up with Paymate. Paymate is a mobile payment solution provider that allows people [...]

India’s leading online travel company Makemytrip.com has roped in Nurun inc to redefine its online brand. Nurun Inc is a subsidiary of Quebecor Media Inc. a global company which strategizes executes, and measures interactive programs that use new technologies.
According to a press release experts at Nurun said that the new look and feel of the [...]