Makemytrip & SAIF Acquire Majority Stake In iXiGo

by | posted: August 10, 2011
iXiGO.com, one of India’s leading travel search engine player has been jointly acquired by SAIF Partners and Makemytrip for a total cash consideration of $18.5 million and to co-own 76.6% from existing...
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iXiGo Powers Flight Search On New Delhi And Hyderabad Airport Websites

by | posted: July 2, 2010
In a new win for iXiGo, the company is now powering the travel search on the official websites for the Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) and the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport...
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Travel Sites Register A Growth Of 50% In Their Indian User Base

by | posted: June 3, 2010
Indians are rapidly becoming tech savvy, especially when it comes to making their travel arrangements. Comparing the current scenario in Online Travel  space to what it was in 2009,  we can only see...
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Online Bookings For Air India Take-off, Cheaper Tickets The New Online Mantra

by | posted: March 9, 2010
There was a time when web services was the scourge of national airline carriers. Faced with stiff competition from the private airlines and with the advent of the internet in every sphere of life, Air...
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MakeMyTrip Acquires TicketVala – Adds Further Strength To Bus Ticketing

by | posted: February 12, 2010
MakeMyTrip which had earlier claimed to have the largest bus ticketing inventory has now increased that even more. Makemytrip has announced the acquisition of Ticketvala which is owned by Travis Internet...
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Via Raises 10 Million $ In Funding From Sequoia

by | posted: January 25, 2010
Well if you thought that you had seen the last of funding in the already overcrowded online travel space then think again. Via which was earlier flightraja has been reported to have landed a funding of...
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Yatra Ties Up With Yahoo! India & Renews Contract With IRCTC

by | posted: January 6, 2010
Yatra.com the travel portal has started the new year with two alliances. One of them being new and one being renewed from previous years. Yatra has signed a strategic deal with Yahoo India which involves...
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Recap 2009: Online Travel

by | posted: December 29, 2009
The year started with some bad news for OTA’s as the economy was still reeling under the pressure of recession and 26/11 shock of 2008. We interviewed Deep Kalra of Makemytrip early this year on...
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Tripadvisor-IRCTC Tie-up – Tripadvisor To Power Travel Reviews On IRCTC

by | posted: November 19, 2009
Its east meets west as far as this story is concerned. Tripadvisor which is a global review sites on travel has tied up with Indian travel giant IRCTC (which powers a large chunk of travel ecommerce in...
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OkTataByeBye, Confusing Name? MakeMyTrip Loses Case Against Tata

by | posted: August 31, 2009
Here is a chicken and egg question: Which came first, Tata – the Indian business conglomerate or tata – the synonym for good bye? Personally speaking, it doesn’t matter. When my friend...
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80% Urban Indians Plan Holidays Via Travel Portals – Are The Best Days Back?

by | posted: August 31, 2009
When was the last time you booked a ticket using one of the online travel portals like MakeMyTrip or Yatra? Even if you think that was long time back, chances are high that you used them at least to check...
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Travel Site TravelMasti.com Wants to be Part of Your Weddings

by | posted: August 10, 2009
Online travel agencies and travel portals have had an enigmatic run till now in digital India. At times the most crowded (even now) for its potential and then stories of dropping numbers at other times....
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Airlines Come Together To Launch Travel Site Rang7 – While OTA’s Make Profits

by | posted: May 19, 2009
Three domestic airlines in  Kingfisher Airlines, SpiceJet and IndiGo have tied up to take on the OTA Bandwagon. In a bid to get rid of the agents commission and service charges the three have come together...
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Sprice.com Powers Sify.com’s Search: Is There a Need?

by | posted: April 17, 2009
Visitors to www.sify.com will now be able to compare offers on various hotels, check the customer reviews and make booking from a host of travel products available on the Internet. The proud release is...
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IRCTC Propelling E-commerce in India

by | posted: April 7, 2009
In India online ticketing has been the most successful force in online E-commerce industry. This also supplemented by the fact that today online travel industry constitutes 78% of the total E-commerce...
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Can Social Media Save The Day For Online Travel?

by | posted: March 24, 2009
Recently Social Media as a term touched an all time high on the google trends chart and this followed by one of the bloggers at Mashable asking the question whether Social Media was an Industry in itself. So...
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