iXiGO - well positioned to take advantage of the booming Indian travel industry

June 3, 2007 at 5:01 pm · Filed under Travel, Website

i-logoI have seen a lot of travel sites in India, since the travel industry in India is booming. However I have never seen a travel meta-search engine for India (just like mobissimo in the US). Here is a difference between travel sites and travel meta-search sites

travel sites - travel sites like travelguru (read over story about travelguru here), makemytrip, cleartrip, etc all have tie ups with majpr airlines and search for the best possible rates on these airlines and often the travel sites take a cut from the air fares. Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity are some of the examples in the US

travel meta-search sites - these are aggregators. They aggregate content from airlines and also from other travel search websites. Have you every searched for best fares in different travel web sites, if you have done that, then it’s a pain to go to different sites and look for it. Travel meta-search sites does the same thing for you in one place. They search for best possible rates in air lines and also in other travel web sites

iXiGO, is the first ever travel meta-search sites for indans. It’s launched yesterday it aggregates content from all 14 airlines and 3 travel websites.

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 The air line are

the travel web sites are

The key features of iXiGO

Zero booking fees - free to use

  • 100% transparencey - shows all the hiden fees and taxes
  • sort and filter results

Overall the first ever travel meta-search for Indians. You will have a great user interface experience. A great web 2.0 experience. I would consider that iXiGO is well positioned to advantage of the booming Indian travel industry.

8 Comments »

  1. dan said,

    June 3, 2007 @ 8:03 pm

    Hello,

    Take also a look to a comparision site called Trabber - http://www.trabber.com

  2. Beatrice said,

    June 5, 2007 @ 12:39 am

    Mobissimo is the first travel meta search engine that launched in India.
    Not only that we search the sites that ixigo is searching but also other sites around the world giving the Indian customers unparallel access to fares from over 170 sites.

    Mobissimo.in lists prices in Indian ruppies. We also operate a specific Indian blog for our Indian customers.

  3. Anitha said,

    June 5, 2007 @ 1:19 am

    Wow thats impressive. Let me have a look at mobissimo. Thank you for the information.

  4. go2indiaweb20.com » Is Proto.in biased? said,

    June 5, 2007 @ 7:11 pm

    […] they biased and leaning towards IXIGO (If you don’t know about IXIGO, read my coverage about IXIGOI here). I agree IXIGO does a good job of it. But there is even better meta-search in travel space, check […]

  5. Daksh said,

    June 6, 2007 @ 5:42 am

    Umm.. Yeah ! Ixigo looks like an Indian replica of Mobissimo :)

    However, the interface and the look-and-feel of site is pretty cool.

  6. Hrush said,

    July 12, 2007 @ 8:28 pm

    So, Ixigo’s key feature is “Zero booking fees - free to use”?

    They don’t provide any booking, so how could they charge fees.

  7. anumks said,

    July 13, 2007 @ 5:01 am

    Hrush,
    Valid point. No booking so no fees. It’s just a meta search. You are correct.
    Thanks,
    Anu MKS

  8. Rajeev K said,

    August 31, 2007 @ 9:08 pm

    Trak.in published a great review of all travel sites in India - http://trak.in/Tags/Business/2007/08/26/indian-travel-airfare-ticket-search-startup/

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