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MustSeeIndia – A Travel Portal That Focusses Only On Rural Tourist Attractions
Travel Portals are doing really great online. There are various online portals in India already that focus on travels and customer experience. Not very long ago, we did a recap of the travel portals in India in the year 2009. We also told you 61% Of Travellers Look For Best travel Deals Online according to [...]
Offisial Atyachaar – Unique Campaign
Conceptualised by Euro RSCG and executed by digivaasi, Offisial Atyachaar is a kick-ass viral product for MakeMyTrip.com.
What makes this property cool?
Its well thought out and the execution is great.
An audio clip with lyrics which go like…
Som ke andar ghus gaya mangal
Uspe budh aur guru ki ungal
Shukra ko nangey more sa naachey
Anal ye vyapaar.
Obviously a take [...]
Inventus Capital to Fund Redbus.in
We’ve blogged about redbus.in earlier, and kept you updated on redbus.in and other developments in the non-air travel ticketing sector. Redbus.in is a travel-based startup by young entrepreneurs from BITS-Pilani. Networking with travel-agents and bus service providers across the country, Redbus.in revolutionised bus booking facilities, with Redbus.in offering options to book via credit card [...]
Sprice.com Powers Sify.com’s Search: Is There a Need?
Visitors to www.sify.com will now be able to compare offers on various hotels, check the customer reviews and make booking from a host of travel products available on the Internet. The proud release is of course because International travel biggie Sprice is now powering its travel search.
The Indian OTA Nose Dive – Where Is The Value Beyond The Ticket?
We had recently taken a look at the state of affairs in the Online Travel scene and concluded that a slowdown was eminent. Recently there was a lot of heart burn and more on the fact that major airlines like Jet, Kingfisher and Air India had pulled the plug on agent commissions of 5% and [...]
Zoomtra ties up with RouteGuru For Driving Directions In Delhi
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 Sports Passport, Powered by Orbitz – A Community Tool to Share Sports Travel Memorabilia
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 Launches In India.. Already Boasts of 1 lakh Registered Indians!
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 to Launch Horizontal Portal this Month?
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 [...]
Events Update : NDTV New Media Congress, IAMAI Online Travel Conference
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,
Travelobuddies.com = Social Utility Services + Travelers Community
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 [...]
Are we ready for Travel 2.0 ?
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 [...]
MakeMyTrip.com Tries To Attract Holiday Travellers With “Holiday Plus”
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 [...]
Travelguru To TAP The Long Tail Of Blogs & Websites Through An Affiliate Program
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 [...]
Sampurn Steps Into Online Travel Industry With FundooTrip.com
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 [...]