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Well Maps and travel seem to go hand in hand. Recently we had blogged about a start up entrip which claimed to be a visual travel blog and integrated the map experience to travel planning. Well that is something even zoomtra seems to be attempting.
According to this release zoomtra has tied up with routeguru to [...]

ESPN.com and Orbitz.com, a leading online travel agency, launched ESPN Sports Passport powered by Orbitz – an online community tool that gives sports fans a place to catalog and share their sports travel trips, game memories and milestones. ESPN Sports Passport fans will be able to create and share an online catalog of their sports history, travel experiences and memories via blogs, photo and video sharing, stadium collections and more…

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 like Oktatabyebye by Makemytrip and Raahi by Yatra.com. Recently even WAYN the popular international travel community had launched in India and also hired a local [...]

Web18 Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd, the Internet arm of Network18 Media and Investments Ltd is set to launch a horizontal portal, said two people familiar with the development (according to Livemint).
 
A horizontal portal refers to an Internet portal site that offers a broad range of content and services. Exampels could be Rediff, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL etc.
 
Web18 had launched Josh18 sometime back [...]

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 this, Sanjay Trehan, CEO, NDTV Convergence Ltd, said,

 
Previously we have blogged on travel social networking site WAYN coming to India and on the Travel + Web 2.0 strategy of other travel sites.
 

 
Now, another player Travelobuddies has entered with Social utility service + Travelers community as the theme with a purpose to offer a platform for the users across the globe to share [...]

Travel planning and booking on the web are among the most popular online activities and online travel sales are growing at an explosive rate in India.Online travel in India is expected to double by 2008, reaching a value of $2 billion. Some 65 per cent of the online travel market will then be controlled by [...]

Few days back we had discussed about Travelguru TAP’ing with bloggers and website holders. Travelguru is focusing on hotels now which itself is a big market whether for business travelers or leisure travelers. Though it is easier and faster to book through an online travel portal like Yatra and ClearTrip,   these travel portals still do [...]

 
Sometime back Travelguru had gone for shopping and bought desiya.com. This deal helped travelguru to build a strong base in UK. Google’s partnership with HolidayIQ simplified the search for local hotels. Travelguru has now launched “The Travelguru Affiliate Program” (TAP) to increase its revenue.
 
 
What is TAP?
 
It is a program that offers the website and [...]

With lots of mergers and acquisitions, Indian online travel industry is booming up. Some time back we had blogged about Travelguru buying Desiya for Rs 100 crores. Online travel industry is adding a lot of value in terms of money to the travel industry.
 

 
FundooTrip.com is the newest online travel portal and is the part of [...]

As we had earlier blogged about the social networking sites taking over the world, the trend is fast evolving into tapping the available opportunities as well as fast creating the opportunity for the lay man to improve their lifestyle. We had even blogged about a social networking sites like babajobs.com creating employment opportunities for the [...]

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 [...]

As we had mentioned in our previous posts about Fabmall-manorama launching an e-commerce site and the launch of Futurebazaar, Indian e-commerce market is booming right now. Big players like Big Bazaar, Indiaplaza.in, Globus, Reliance, Pantaloons and others have been making plans to capture a slice of the e–commerce market. Some of them have even launched [...]

 
Travelmartindia India’s first E-commerce Travel portal has recently launched a service that allows customers to Search, Book and make Payment of Airline tickets using sms on mobile phones. Users can also check their status online and can subscribe for latest and best deals available directly on their handset.
The New service provided is in collaboration [...]

Well i think most people would know about Sabeer Bhatia’s Arzoo.com which has been relaunched as a travel portal. It has been in testing mode for sometime and infact i had also seen a few ads in the mumbai newspapers almost 2-3 months back. But an article suggests that Arzoo has been relaunched just yesterday. Well probably its true.. [...]