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Indian online travel industry is expanding companies are stepping into this market with a thought of discovering the whole of India. Few days back we blogged about affiliate sites and Sampurn stepping into online travel industry. Recently, Lomanika.com introduced online booking for the remotest hotels in India on www.lomanika.com .
 
 
On this, Atul Khekade, Director of [...]

Bus Ticketing seems to be coming of age. I had first heard of online bus ticketing back in early 2006 when rajnationalexpress a part of the raj travels group was having full inventory bookings purely through its online site. After that many players like redbus, ticketvala and others have jumped on the bandwagon of bus [...]

Till now we have covered 2 travel search engines of WATBlog. They have been iXiGo.com which also got shortlisted in the Red Herring Global 100 Finalists and Zoomtra which is promoted by Smile Studio which also own Quasar and Tyroo.
 
I just came across another travel related aggregator but this one isnt a search engine infact [...]

We had earlier mentioned in our blog that online travel bookings are booming in India. It is one of the hassle free ways to book your tickets instantly. Lately many of the offline players are switching over to online for better presence and to cover larger number of audiences, attractive discounts and other promotional packages [...]

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 [...]

Well as much as online travel guys might like to believe the online travel boom may not really create a dent in the offline travel’s market. According to this article offline travel agencies are not that concerned about the boom being seen in the online booking of tickets for travel.
Infact the most affected by the [...]

A lot has been spoken about how indian online travel is booming! There is also a lot of news articles on all sorts of travel sites poping up. And now it seems even international players are down in India to play the travel game!
In an interview Indian MD - Himanshu Singh of the Internationally reknowned travel [...]

Expresstravelworld: eBay India has partnered with Cultuzz, a global provider of backend solutions, to power its online travel retail. Cultuzz will power eBay India’s site, as well as offer eBay India’s principal suppliers Cultuzz, will engage the Indian travel trade to provide them with the avenue and tool to distribute their inventory, built specifically to [...]

The Hindu Business Line: TravelPort India, has acquired 100 per cent stake in Sri Balaji Tours and Travels which had a strong presence in Goa. Travelport plans to market Goa to regions such as Central Europe and to launch a online portal specifically for Goa goaonline.com .
UPDATED BY RAJIV: This is not a bad time to [...]

The Hindu Business Line: MTV has joined hands with travel portal Travelguru to launch MTV Backpack Holidays. MTV Backpack Holidays features custom-made adventure-travel packages for the youth, and will be available across Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore.
 
Hrishikesh and Haridwar near Delhi, Kihim and Karjat near Mumbai and Antargange and Rangaswamy Hills near Bangalore are among [...]

Travelguru, has received a fresh infusion of capital commitment to the tune of $15 million from US-based Battery Ventures and Sequoia Capital India.Sequoia had invested $10 million in the first round of funding for Travelguru. The second round of funding will help Travelguru in building retail initiatives to support online growth and support its plans [...]

Cleartrip.com which is funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures (which has also invested in Google) is lookimng to get aggressive in the online travel space by offering international air ticketing, foreign hotel bookings and tour packages in the domestic market from calender 2007.
Cleartrip also plans to tie up with Indian Railway [...]

BusinessStandard: Traditional travel players are taken by the online boom in the travel industry and are now using their resources to get a foothold in the online travel space.

The possibility of making profits from exclusive online portals seems to be catching on with small and big travel agencies alike. Though online travel agencies account for less than 5 [...]

Exchange4media: Indian Express Online has entered into an agreement with travel portal MakeMyTrip.com under which makemytrip will power the newly launched travel channel of ExpressIndia.com. Besides offering travel products, the channel would offer comprehensive travel content like guest travelogues, message boards, videos, restaurant reviews, regional festivities and snapshots for the leisure or business traveller.The commercials [...]