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Online Bookings For Air India Take-off, Cheaper Tickets The New Online Mantra
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 India introduced online booking services some time back. But the services failed to take off, partly for the lack of ease [...]
MakeMyTrip Acquires TicketVala – Adds Further Strength To Bus Ticketing
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 Pvt Ltd.
This acquisition puts Makemytrip on the forefront on the bus ticketing business in India. The competition it faces is from the likes of [...]
Via Raises 10 Million $ In Funding From Sequoia
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 10 million $ from blue blooded VC’s Sequoia capital. Sequoia Capital had earlier funded the likes of Travelguru which [...]
Yatra Ties Up With Yahoo! India & Renews Contract With IRCTC
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 advertising space on Yahoo’s India website. As a part of this deal, Yatra.com will be featured as the recommended travel [...]
Recap 2009: Online Travel
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 his views about the recession driven economy. OTA’s started bolstering non air revenue streams like bus travel as well as [...]
Tripadvisor-IRCTC Tie-up – Tripadvisor To Power Travel Reviews On IRCTC
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 India) for content collaboration in the online travel space in India. This is a big deal for Tripadvisor [...]
OkTataByeBye, Confusing Name? MakeMyTrip Loses Case Against Tata
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 says tata as he leaves my home, I’ve not stopped to wonder why he is uttering Tata’s name and not Ambani’s. That’s because, [...]
80% Urban Indians Plan Holidays Via Travel Portals – Are The Best Days Back?
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 on the prices or ticket availability. That’s because an overwhelming majority of urban Indians do [...]
Travel Site TravelMasti.com Wants to be Part of Your Weddings
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. Being primarily driven by air transport business till the recent past, the trouble in the skies directly had an impact on OTA’s as well. This of course resulted in diversification or the call for one at the least. And we did see a lot of it happening in the industry. On the same lines, TravelMasti.com has announced a new avenue of service for its users – a wedding site.
Airlines Come Together To Launch Travel Site Rang7 – While OTA’s Make Profits
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 to launch an online travel portal called Rang7. Rang7 is managed by a separate entity known as ShiVik Internet [...]
Sprice.com Powers Sify.com’s Search: Is There a Need?
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 of course because International travel biggie Sprice is now powering its travel search.
IRCTC Propelling E-commerce in India
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 industry in India.
IRCTC -playing an important role?
Its estimated gross annual sales of Rs.3400 crore constitutes 1/3rd of the total ecommerce industry worth Rs.9000 crores [...]
Can Social Media Save The Day For Online Travel?
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 social media is big globally and its just getting bigger. The other industry that is big but is [...]
Online Travel Updates – Cleartrip Launches Chat Bot Train Search & Makemytrip Introduces Holiday Homes
The Indian OTA’s are constantly innovating with both technology and alternative offerings to attract travellers to book via their platform. So both cleartrip and makemytrip have launched something new for their users.
Cleartrip Launches Chat Bot Booking Agent For Trains
Cleartrip has launched what one would call a Chat bot based search engine for trains. A user [...]
MakeMyTrip.com Travels to Airtel DTH
MakeMyTrip.com and Airtel DTH announced earlier this week that the travel portal will provide information about its holiday packages to Airtel’s DTH users.
The packages will be available on the iTravel interactive channel of Airtel Digital TV. To buy a package, viewers can send an SMS to a particular code and will be contacted by the MMT sales team to complete the purchase.