Posted on August 25th, 2007 by anumks
MakeMyTrip.com, an online travel portal, is awaiting an approval from Indian Railway Corporation to sell rail tickets and as well as room bookings for railway budget hotels on its site, reports Business Standard. Currently, railway tickets can be booked online only on Indian Railway sites and nearly 50,000 railway tickets are getting booked online everyday.
MakeMyTrip.com […]
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Posted on July 6th, 2007 by anumks
A few days back I was blogging about HolidayIQ.com (here is the link). I seriously believed that there are no competitors for them in the Travel 2.0 space. However I recently came across another site, called oktatabyebye.com that competes in the same space. I did some comparison and here it is..
HolidayIQ.com (Alexa ranking 29,902)
+ Hotel […]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2007 by anumks
Just about 2 days back, I got a comment from a reader to one of my earlier blog post titled “Travel 2.0 - Is that what’s next for the Indian Online Travel Industry?” (link here). The comment was about a site called HolidayIQ.com, and it mentions that HolidayIQ is based on Travel 2.0 model. Needless […]
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Posted on June 29th, 2007 by anumks
The number of Indians traveling abroad for vacations and holidays are going to be doubled by 2001, reports TimesofIndia. As per the report it’s due to the increase in disposable incomes, more affordable air packages. The forecast says that the outgoing tourism expenditure will reach a value of $21 billion by 2001.
Okay now this all […]
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Posted on June 10th, 2007 by anumks
Think of a travel site where you could do the following
Read user reviews about a Hotel
Read travel weblogs
See traveler’s videos and photos about a Hotel, a place
Read user reviews about an airline career
Tag your travel searches
Scrap book to jot down your travel plans and things to do, places to see in your travel
AND
Book flights, hotels, […]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2007 by anumks
I 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 […]
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Posted on May 29th, 2007 by anumks
Travelguru is a pioneering travel portal catering to the travel needs of the Indian traveler. Modeled on the basis of Expedia and Travelocity the company aims to bring cheaper flight and hotel options to the growing mass of Indian travelers. Travelguru’s current product offering consists of airline tickets, hotel rooms, vacation packages and cruises.Â
In the […]
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