MakeMyTrip plans $5 Mln Investments On U.S., India Expansion
Online Travel Agency (OTA) MakeMyTrip.com (MMT), which only this week raised $15 million in Series C funding, plans to invest $5 million ove… Read more »
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E-Commerce To See 30% Growth In 2007-08 Boosted By Classifieds, Paid Content, Downloads
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
E-commerce is set to grow at a 30 percent pace to touch Rs. 9,210 crores in 2007-08 from Rs. 7,080 crore in 2006-07 boosted by strength in t… Read more »
Yatra Online Mulling IPO; To Invest Rs 20 Million In Retail
By Rafat Ali
Indian travel portal Yatra Online is considering an IPO, and hoping to launch it by April 1 next year, according to CEO Dhruv Shringhi, spea… Read more »
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MakeMyTrip Raises $15 million From Tiger Fund, Sierra, SAIF Partners And Helion Venture Partners
By Nikhil Pahwa
Online Travel Agency (OTA) MakeMyTrip.com (MMT) has raised $15 million in Series C funding from Tiger Fund, SAIF Partners, Sierra Ventures a… Read more »
Application Roundup: STAR-Yatra; Moneycontrol-Markets On Mobile
By Nikhil Pahwa
– STAR India has signed a 12 month alliance with Online Travel Agent (OTA) Yatra.com to offer air travel reservations, hotel bookings etc o… Read more »
Cleartrip Ties Up With Future Money To Offer Travel On EMI
By Nikhil Pahwa
Online Travel Agency (OTA) Cleartrip has tied up with Future Money, a Future Group non-banking financial corporation, to provide travel prod… Read more »
Times Group Acquires Stake In Travel Masti
By Nikhil Pahwa
So here’s a travel portal that wasn’t in my ever burgeoning list online travel agents (OTAs): Travelmasti.com. The company, Travel Masti Hol… Read more »
Kingfisher Tops E-ticketing Race, A-I Trails
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
While Kingfisher Airlines sells all of its tickets via the Internet, Air-India sells a paltry 7 percent of its tickets through the Web, acco… Read more »
Travel Portals Go Mobile: MakeMyTrip-Nokia, Yatra On The Go
By Nikhil Pahwa
– If you caught the Nokia N-Series adverts on TV recently, you might have noticed a tiny MakeMyTrip logo at the bottom during the final fra… Read more »
Arzoo Allows Restaurant Table Booking
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Sabeer Bhatia’s portal Arzoo.com has introduced a “book-a-table’ service for Mumbai, reports Indiantelevision. The company is providing a si… Read more »
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Govt Of India To Launch E-Commerce Platform On Tourism Site; Ties Up With Travel Portals, Hotels
By Nikhil Pahwa
The Ministry of Tourism of India has launched a new e-Commerce platform on its tourism website Incredible India, that apparently connects cu… Read more »
India’s Online Travel Business Expected To Nearly Quadruple Every Year Until 2010
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
Now, I know some of you may not be surprised by the headline considering that we are talking about a growth spurt in the online travel busin… Read more »
RCom, Yatra.com Join Hands To Provide Hotel, Flight Bookings Via Mobile
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
Reliance Communications and Yatra.com have launched a mobile service to provide hotel & air ticket bookings with a cash on delivery option.… Read more »
About 43% Low Cost Indian Air Travelers Buy Tickets Online
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
Nearly 43 percent of low cost Indian air travelers prefer to buy their tickets online versus just 21 percent of full-service carrier travele… Read more »
Cleartrip Sees Ten-Fold Jump In Hotel Searches Since May
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
Here’s something I found on Cleartrip.com founder Hrush Bhatt’s blog. Apparently, the travel site has seen a ten-times increase in its hotel… Read more »
STAR Launches Video Portal- Video On The Rocks; Tie-Ups For Games And Travel Search
By Nikhil Pahwa
You’re reading it here first: STAR India has launched a video portal called Video On The Rocks (VOTR). It seems that STAR is banking on prem… Read more »
Thomas Cook India Appoints Head Of E-Business
By Nikhil Pahwa
Thomas Cook India has appointed Amitabh Pandey has President and Head of its E-Business. Pandey will be responsible for the redesign of thei… Read more »
E-tickets For Air Travel On The Rise In India
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
The Economic Times had this interesting piece of data in this article on the surge in e-ticketing for air tickets in India. The percentage o… Read more »
Big Chunk Of MSN Users In India Use Web For Travel Info
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
Eighty One per cent of MSN and Windows Live users in India prefer the Internet for leisure and business travel information, according to a M… Read more »
MakeMyTrip Opens Bangalore Office
By Nikhil Pahwa
Online Travel Agent MakeMyTrip has opened an office in Bangalore, reports Business Standard. As per the story (though no source is specified… Read more »
MakeMyTrip Launches Mobile Ticketing Service
By Nikhil Pahwa
Makemytrip.com has launched a mobile ticketing service, wherein users can search, book and pay for tickets by SMS. The service has been powe… Read more »
FlightRaja Gets $5 Million In Funds From NEA IndoUS Ventures
By Nikhil Pahwa
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Online Travel Agency Flightraja has received $ 5 million in funding from NEA Indo US Ventures, reports DNA. The company has been re… Read more »
Saffron Media Kicks Off Travel Mag, Portal
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Saffron Media Advertisement Pvt. Ltd, a unit of the Adfactors Group, has launched a weekly magazine Travel Biz Monitor and http://www.travelbizmoni… Read more »
Makemytrip.com Claims To Break Even, Double Revenue This Fiscal
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Online travel firm MakeMyTrip.com is likely to break even and nearly double its online transactions and revenue this fiscal, according to th… Read more »
MakeMyTrip, Indiatimes Travel Try The Offline Option
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A report in the Economic Times mentions more Online Ticketing Agents (OTA) going offline. Makemytrip has set up a counter at retail store Sp… Read more »
@OT: Engaging, Retaining and Whale Expeditions
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@OT: Merchants are fighting online fraud alone
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@OT: “Online booking of Hotels is a long tail product
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At the IAMAI summit on “Online Travel: Are you hooked”: Ashwin Damera, CEO of TravelGuru feels that the online travel space hasn Read more »
@OT: “We also sell Tickets”
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Online travel portals will have to evolve, was the message from Deep Kalra, CEO of MakeMyTrip at the “Online Travel: Are You Hooked” confere… Read more »
Travel Portal Yatra Ties Up With Hughes For Bookings; Reliance Web World?
By Nikhil Pahwa
Yatra has inked a deal with ISP Hughes to offer travel related services through HughesNet Fusion centres, reports the Hindu. Initially, the… Read more »
Travelocity To Sell Hotel Rooms On Jet Airways Website
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Jet Airways has joined hands with Travelocity India to sell hotel offerings on the airline’s website, Jetairways.com. Jet Airways website wi… Read more »
Travelocity India More Bullish About Hotel Bookings
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easyHotel.com Announces India Plans
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Hotel rooms aggregator easyHotel.com has announced its plans for India. The low-cost hotel chain, which has investment from Dubai’s Istithma… Read more »
FHRAI Survey: Two-Third Of Branded Hotels Sell Hotel Room Inventory Via Net
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Indian hotels seem to have started selling more rooms via the internet. According to an industry survey, about two-third of branded hotels i… Read more »
Yahoo India In Talks With Travel Portals For Partnership; Equity Participation Cannot Be Ruled Out
By Sahad PV
Yahoo India is apparently scouting for a travel partner to offer travel-related services including booking on its portal, reports Business S… Read more »
MTV Partners With MakeMyTrip’s Travel Social Networking Site OkTataByeBye; Drops Travelguru?
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I just chanced upon the beta version of MTVs travel community ‘Aati Kya’, which is powered by the MakeMyTrip.com’s social networking portal… Read more »
Cleartrip.com Claims To Clock 480,000 Transactions And $100 Million In Sales In Year One
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IRCTC Launches Mobile Application For Booking Railway Tickets
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The IRCTC has launched a Java based mobile application called IRCTCmobile, for booking train tickets, reports the Hindu. The application all… Read more »
Yatra.com Clocks Sales Of $5 Million A Month, To Break Even By End-2008
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Travelocity Launches India Portal; To Focus On Hotel Rooms
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Travel portal Travelocity has launched its India website (Travelocity.co.in). But the portal will focus on hotel bookings than air ticketing… Read more »
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