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Citibank India and travelguru.com have come together to launch TravelRewards.co.in, a travel rewards platform for its cardholders which will earn them reward points and discounts on their spending on hotel and holiday packages booked via travelguru ofcourse.

The benefits that a users gets by registering  on Travelrewards.co.in are:

Accrual of triple reward points on hotel and holiday [...]

The online travel segment has been one of the best performing in the e-commerce space in India and has been amongst the fastest growing as well. If a government driven portal can make money by the millions then surely there is no question about its scale and success. Recently, the sector has seen a flurry of activities including newer features, potential mergers, international deals, funding and even pink slips which strangely didn’t stuck out as a sore thumb. WATBlog decided to do a follow up of our much appreciated Bird’s eye view of the Indian online travel niche we covered in May.

Update: Travelguru Founder has denied the story but speculation still exists and now the valuation is being pegged at 75 million $ and acquisition at a higher amount!
 
Earlier Posted:The travel scene has been an overcrowded one and we have been blogging about both the amount of funding and the number of funded players since quite [...]

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 their business models to grow beyond their existing revenue sources.
 
At a recent summit I spoke to Amitabh Pandey, the head of [...]

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 engine. It was only natural for iXiGo which was primarily a search engine for flights to include hotels sooner or later. [...]

 
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 [...]

These days we hear a lot about company mergers, partnership and all. Few days back, we heard about Google partnering with HolidayIQ. This partnership simplified the local search for hotels, resorts and so on. Travelguru, one of the India’s leading travel website conquered Desiya.com, your gateway to India for $25 million (approx Rs 100 [...]

We have mentioned earlier how the Indian Online travel space is one of the most crowded spaces in the Internet arena. Also now international players are also wanting to be a part of this crowd. So if earlier it was Travelocity which opened an india site with hotel bookings in march in a few months [...]

Most travel portals are catching up on the festival spree that starts right from the months Aug-Sept-Oct each year as the volume of travelers through Air, Road and Rail increases. The travel portals are coming out with a lot of discount offers such as Buy1-Get1 FREE or 50% cash back as a promotional tool which [...]

Riding high on its recognition as “India’s largest hotel network”, travelguru has come with a guaranteed hotel room anywhere, and budget. Their marketing campaign for the same takes off today, and finds it roots it’s the disappointment of a broken promise appeal.
Travleguru has also backed its marketing campaign for hotels with the following television [...]

Movies and internet go a long way back. Since the time the internet started movies and movie related content has been a prime attraction for users on the internet. So its no surprise to see that movie affiliated branding is being done on the internet. But the one which is soon to happen is an [...]

It wouldn’t be wrong if last year was called the year of the travel portals. As more than a dozen travel portals were launched and almost half a dozen got funded.
Among all the travel portals the ones like Yatra, Makemytrip, Travelguru, Cleartrip and Ezeego1 have a lot of muscle power due to the funding and backing [...]

Venture intelligence summit on Internet and Mobile was held last week. Many well known faces in the internet industry had graced the occassion.
The summit started with Internet and speaking on internet was a panel of elite internet entrepreneurs and Vc’s as well.
The panel included Murugavel J, CEO of BharatMatrimony, Ashish Gupta MD of HelionVC, [...]