Future of Online Travel in India
The Online Travel sector in India is taking a big leap with MakeMyTrip, Yatra, TravelGuru, ClearTrip and few others already having made their presence felt and lucratively inviting others to join the race of OTA trend.
Online travel sales in India will nearly quadruple to $2 billion in 2010, according to Euromonitor. The online [...]
State of Online Travel Industry in India
The growth in the online travel industry is not surprising, given that the country’s online population totals 25 million currently, and is projected to cross 100 million mark by 2008.
Online travel sector growth in India was established and driven by Indian Railways, and the second phase of growth was lead by airlines, predominantly Low Cost [...]
Travel Distribution India Special
“For how long OTAs in India can sustain aggressive marketing and cash back offers?”
Date Published : 22 Nov 2007
Source: www.eyefortravel.com
This statement came from a traditional player in the travel distribution business in India when EyeforTravel had conducted its first travel distribution conference in New Delhi in October 2006.
While consolidation is yet to take place, questions [...]
Travelguru to acquire Desiya for US$25m
After consolidation in the Indian aviation industry, it is the turn of online travel intermediaries to get on with the same.
20 Dec 2007
According to leading financial daily The Economic Times, Travelguru is acquiring Delhi-based B2B hotel portal Desiya for $25 million (around Rs 100 crore). Travelguru is also scouting for an offline travel player, it [...]
Google chooses HolidayIQ for hotel reviews
Bangalore | 18 Dec 2007
HolidayIQ, India’s popular holiday planning website, has been selected by Google, the global leader in the internet search business, to provide user generated content, specifically hotel reviews and hotel photographs to Google’s India local search.
HolidayIQ and Google have entered into an agreement in which content from Holiday-IQ’s hotel, resorts, home-stays & [...]
