State of Affairs: WATBlog Analyses The Indian Online Travel Space

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

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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Travel Update: Travel Portals Looking at Models Beyond Ticketing as Margins Dwindle. A Birds Eye View of Online Travel in India and Insights on the Future

Firstly I don’t think many of the ‘travel’ portals that mainly sell tickets can be considered as ‘travel’ portals anyway. They are ticketing portals. Or rather they were. Some of them are changing...
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Exclusive WATShow With Hrush Bhatt – Founder Cleartrip.com

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:...
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