Online Travel Updates – Cleartrip Launches Chat Bot Train Search & Makemytrip Introduces Holiday Homes

by | posted: March 4, 2009
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...
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MakeMyTrip.com Travels to Airtel DTH

by | posted: February 20, 2009
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...
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Tourism Ministry Convinced On The Reach Of The Internet – To Spend Rs.20 Cr On Online Ads

by | posted: February 5, 2009
The recession might be here but here is something for the Digital Marketers to cheer about. The tourism ministry which is headed by tourism minister Renuka Chowdhury is convinced that the internet medium...
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Saturday Startup Review II – Yoplr.com

by | posted: January 17, 2009
The second saturday startup we are reviewing is in the travel planning space. We look at a startup  called Yoplr.com. Yoplr is a personalised travel planner and its currently in the beta stage. This startup...
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Recap 2008: Online Travel

by | posted: December 31, 2008
The year 2008 can be termed as the year of online travel as this space has seen immense traction all throughout the year. Whether it was launching of discounted travel, expansions, acquisitions, investments,...
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ThomasCook.in To Focus on Domestic Market & B2B Segment

by | posted: December 18, 2008
These are tough times for travel in India and tough times need tough and precise measures. That is what we are seeing across the board in online travel with companies focussing on niche’s rather...
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Exclusive: Tripmela.com Shuts Down – Puts Up Site For Sale On Ebay!

by | posted: December 10, 2008
Tripmela.com which is a travel deals aggregator and which recently was in the news for launching Searchmela a hotels and airfare comparison tool has shut its operations and put up the site on Ebay for...
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Cleartrip Powers Hotel Search & Booking On IRCTC Website

by | posted: December 9, 2008
Cleartrip which had earlier included railway train search and then booking availability on its travel portal seems to have strengthen the ties further with IRCTC. Cleartrip has announced that it has become...
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iXiGo Now To Power Flight Search & Booking On TravelGuru.com

by | posted: November 24, 2008
Travelguru.com which initially started as a flight booking platform but later repositioned its core focus from Flights to hotel booking has now taken a step futher to ‘cut costs’ and further...
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Cleartrip Launches Cleartrip For Business – Diversification In Tough Times?

by | posted: November 21, 2008
Cleartrip.com has launched a new website  their corporate travel customers in Cleartripforbusiness.com which is sort of a travel planner cum booking engine which is targetted to help corporates cut costs. It...
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State of Affairs: WATBlog Analyses The Indian Online Travel Space

by | posted: September 24, 2008
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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Online Travel Update: Cleartrip Lays Off 42 & Zoomtra Goes International

by | posted: September 12, 2008
Online travel is seeing some interesting news offlate. Right from launching of non flight services to going international to even laying off people due to the travel price hikes and slowdown in the economy....
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Tripadvisor Launches In India.. Already Boasts of 1 lakh Registered Indians!

by | posted: August 22, 2008
Tripadvisor the travel community portal backed by Expedia has launched in India under the domain name tripadvisor.in. India alreday boasts of local travel portals launching their own travel community sites...
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Amitabh Pandey – President Ebiz ThomasCook On OTA’s, Competitive Pricing & Future (via WATShow.com)

by | posted: August 6, 2008
We caught up with Amitabh Pandey the President of the Ebiz at Thomascook prior to their launch of an eticketing portal under the thomascook.in domain name and quizzed him on the following: 1) The competitive...
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iXiGo Launches Hotels 2.0 – While Competition Heats Up In Travel Aggregator Space With Kayak.in

by | posted: July 17, 2008
iXiGo which had first launched the hotel search option earlier this year in april has now upgraded to what they term as hotel 2.0. This new upgrade has many new additions of interesting features along...
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Tencent Holdings To Buy Out 50% In MIH India (Ibibo Web Pvt Ltd) For 7.5 Million $

by | posted: June 18, 2008
This is just in: According this news piece Tencent Holdings Ltd a hongkong listed firm said it has secured an option to acquire up to 50 pct of MIH India Global Internet Ltd. They will be doing so by investing...
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