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...

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...

Now then, this post kind of illustrates why it’s great to be on the good side of WAT Well, on a serious note, we are happy and proud to be associated with PC World Web awards as a part of the Jury....

NDTV New Media Congress   As a part of its endeavour to emerge as a thought leader in the New Media space, NDTV Convergence is organizing the New Media Congress in New Delhi on 8-May-2008.   On...

iXiGO.com which recently got funded has launched hotel search. Hotels has been a domain which first came into focus when travelguru shifted its focus from being a flight booking engine to a hotel booking...

Online travel has been a really bitterly fought segment with tonnes of funded players and many of them having more money than they need. With so many options to buy tickets Travel aggregators have come...

Cleartrip recently got funding of 18.5 Million Dollars but just before they got that we were lucky enough to catch up with Hrush Bhatt for an exclusive interview with WATShow. We questioned Hrush on the following: 1) What’s the differentiation between Cleartrip and other Online Travel Portals? 2) How important is logistics in online travel business? 3) Why did Cleartrip launch Rail Search? 4) What’s the idea behind the blog? Wanna see this WATShow? Click the link below:...

Traditional Web Companies or for the use of a more cliched term Web 1.0 companies like jobs, matrimony and travel in India have become the big boys of the web in the last three years with many of them...

With vacations around, different travel portals will have their own offers for attracting the customers. The online travel market is increasing. Many new players are getting into the travel business...

Talk about the roof giving way and a windfall of money falling from it and it just doesn’t stop raining money! Im sure if one were to visit the cleartrip office in mumbai a similar scene atleast...

I first came across iXiGo at the first proto.in event (which im a part of) way back in January 2007. I remember meeting Aloke and Dharmendra the founders of iXiGo and mentioning to them that I liked their...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...