Traffic To Travel Sites In India Increases By 32 percent: ComScore

by | posted: June 6, 2011
As a part of The State of the Internet India report, Comscore released stats on the online travel industry in India. The stats reveal that traffic to these travel sites has increased by 32%, from 13.9...
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Travel Updates: Yatra – Cash On Delivery | Vamoose – Group Buying | Makemytrip – Blackberry App

by | posted: March 9, 2011
Travel space seems back in action as new apps are being launched and new business models are being tried as well. Here is a low down on the same. Yatra Launches Cash On Delivery Yatra.com has announced...
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Expedia To Spend 25 Crore For Launch In The Indian Market

by | posted: February 14, 2011
Expedia recently announced its direct entry into India with Expedia.co.in. Expedia boasts of a humongous inventory of over 130,000 hotels, more than 430 airline partnerships and over 5000 holiday activities...
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Online Advertising Will Be Worth 993 Crores This Financial Year

by | posted: December 17, 2010
The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), in a recent survey, predicts the growth of the online display and text advertising industry at 23% from Rs. 785 crores in 2009-2010 to Rs. 993 crores...
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Jobs, Travel, Mobile Phones Top Keywords on Yahoo! Search – Is There a Yahoo Anymore?

by | posted: August 26, 2010
Jobs, Mobiles and Travel have become the metaphorical roti, kapda and makaan (or bijli, sadak and pani) of Yahoo Search in India. A press release by the company on Yahoo’s “Top 10 Most Popular...
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IRCTC Rakes In Rs.50 Lakh Daily Via Air Ticketing!

by | posted: June 24, 2010
When people think of government organizations, the thought of efficiency and enterprise are hardly the words that come to their minds. But IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd) is...
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Travel Sites Register A Growth Of 50% In Their Indian User Base

by | posted: June 3, 2010
Indians are rapidly becoming tech savvy, especially when it comes to making their travel arrangements. Comparing the current scenario in Online Travel  space to what it was in 2009,  we can only see...
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MustSeeIndia – A Travel Portal That Focusses Only On Rural Tourist Attractions

by | posted: February 26, 2010
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...
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Offisial Atyachaar – Unique Campaign

by | posted: August 11, 2009
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...
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Inventus Capital to Fund Redbus.in

by | posted: July 7, 2009
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...
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Sprice.com Powers Sify.com’s Search: Is There a Need?

by | posted: April 17, 2009
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...
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The Indian OTA Nose Dive – Where Is The Value Beyond The Ticket?

by | posted: December 8, 2008
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...
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Zoomtra ties up with RouteGuru For Driving Directions In Delhi

by | posted: November 5, 2008
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...
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ESPN Sports Passport, Powered by Orbitz – A Community Tool to Share Sports Travel Memorabilia

by | posted: August 25, 2008
A few days back, 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...
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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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Web18 to Launch Horizontal Portal this Month?

by | posted: May 15, 2008
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)....
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