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Yatra Acquires Buzzintown.com: What Could Be Yatra’s Strategy?

by | posted: January 9, 2012
Yatra.com, an online Travel Services providers has just acquired Buzzintown, a website that provides information on deals and events. Earlier this year, Yatra had secured over 150 Crores & 200 Crores...
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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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SnapDeal Breaks Into Top 100 Indian Websites

by | posted: November 22, 2010
We know that the group buy/daily deal sites witnessed major traffic growth in September. One of these – SnapDeal.com has carried on that momentum and broken into the top 100 for India according to...
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HP Introduces DreamScreen In India

by | posted: November 20, 2010
HP India unveils DreamScreen, an icon-based interactive device that caters to shared environment as in family. The touchscreen device has been designed to help users get easy access to contents through...
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Tyroo On A Tie Up Spree – Partners Yatra & IndiaInfoline

by | posted: February 23, 2010
Tyroo the ad network from the SITG group which was invested in by Yahoo has been on a tie up spree off late. Tyroo has tied up with Yatra to exclusively promote and sell Designated Advertising Space on...
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Yatra Ties Up With Yahoo! India & Renews Contract With IRCTC

by | posted: January 6, 2010
Yatra.com the travel portal has started the new year with two alliances. One of them being new and one being renewed from previous years. Yatra has signed a strategic deal with Yahoo India which involves...
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Recap 2009: Online Travel

by | posted: December 29, 2009
The year started with some bad news for OTA’s as the economy was still reeling under the pressure of recession and 26/11 shock of 2008. We interviewed Deep Kalra of Makemytrip early this year on...
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80% Urban Indians Plan Holidays Via Travel Portals – Are The Best Days Back?

by | posted: August 31, 2009
When was the last time you booked a ticket using one of the online travel portals like MakeMyTrip or Yatra? Even if you think that was long time back, chances are high that you used them at least to check...
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IPL Online Tie-ups: Monetization Strategies By IPL Teams

by | posted: April 22, 2009
It looks like IPL Team owners are busy in monetizing their teams by partnering with various online companies for different Team rights. Ebay India partners with Kings XI Punjab to bring IPL merchandise...
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TieUps Update: Bharatmatrimony – Idea / ACK – Vodafone / Shaadi – Atom / Yatra – IRCTC

by | posted: March 2, 2009
Tieups are the need of the hour. The number of tie ups seem to be increasing every week. Also a common trend is the web – mobile tie ups wherein the web companies are tying up with either mobile...
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Recap 2008: Online Travel

by | posted: December 31, 2008
The year 2008 can be termed as the year of online travel as this space has seen immense traction all throughout the year. Whether it was launching of discounted travel, expansions, acquisitions, investments,...
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State of Affairs: WATBlog Analyses The Indian Online Travel Space

by | posted: September 24, 2008
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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Reliance Invests in US Social Networking Portal Whrrl.com – Looking Strongly at Location Based Services

by | posted: May 27, 2008
Reliance Technlogy Ventures Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Capital (owned by ADAG) has invested in a US Based Social Networking Site – Whrrl.com.   I just checked out Whrrl.com and it’s...
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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

by | posted: May 22, 2008
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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After Flights Its Bus Ticketing thats Ready to Take Off!

by | posted: December 14, 2007
We had recently blogged about how flight ticketing was getting plagued by cases of cyber crime primarily due to the high volumes of ticketing transactions that were happening online for booking flights....
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