Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by dhirender
An operating company of Expedia Inc, and headquartered at Dallas, Texas, Hotels.com has launched its Indian avtaar at Hotels.co.in.
With over 80,000 properties worldwide, they claim to have one of the widest selections of accommodation on the net, with hotel pricing, amenities and availability and also specialize in providing travellers with accommodation during sold-out periods. Ratings [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009 by dhirender
With rates and availability, in real-time, across more than 220,000 hotels, hostels, heritage properties, serviced apartments, home-stays, guest houses and villas, iXiGo claims to be the world’s biggest hotel search engine.
“With our ability to integrate niche hotel aggregators quickly, we have gone from being India’s biggest, to being the world’s biggest hotel search in just [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2008 by dhirender
In a first, Thomas Cook (India) Limited, launched Indian Railway reserved ticket booking facilities on its portal thomascook.in – the only travel solutions portal that offers this facility at present. IRCTC is the only other website which provides this facility, which is run by Indian Railways. All other websites such as Rediff and Cleartrip offer [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2008 by dhirender
Travel search engine Kayak.com, recently launched its Indian avtaar at Kayak.in, which currently offers flight search and fare alerts facilities. The international site also has search across Hotels, Cars, Vacations, Cruises, Deals etc. so you can expect at least Hotels to follow soon in the Indian avtaar. Seems Kayak.com was already receiving significant traffic, about [...]
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Posted on June 11th, 2008 by dhirender
According to comScore’s recent study on the US online travel industry, supplier websites account for 72% of online hotel spend as of first quarter 2008, a 3% point increase in dollar share from the previous year. Hotel market share through online travel agency sites (e.g. Expedia and Orbitz) is now 28%, 3% points down from [...]
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Posted on March 7th, 2008 by dhirender
The much awaited Indian avtaar of the online travel company Expedia, which recorded gross bookings of $20 billion in 2007, is finally online at Expedia.co.in. The website claims to offer bookings of nearly 80,000 hotels and over 3,000 destination activities and attractions worldwide.
“Indian online travel market is estimated to be worth over $2 billion for [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by dhirender
According to this VCCircle post, Cleartrip, has received $18.5 million funding in Series C from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mahindra Group, taking the total funding received by Cleartrip to a little over $30 million. Earlier, Cleartrip had received $3.7 million funding (September 2005) from Kleiner Perkins and Sherpalo, $8 million from DAG Ventures and Gund [...]
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Posted on February 20th, 2008 by dhirender
According to this scoop in VCCircle, iXiGO.com, the Indian travel meta search engines, which launched in June 2007, has received an undisclosed amount of first-round financing from BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based seed investment firm. The investment will fund iXiGO’s marketing plans and also the plans to scale-up searchable travel content.
iXiGO helps travellers to [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2008 by dhirender
January, marked a watershed for the Indian Railways, with e-tickets accounting for 86% of the total 18.81 lakh online ticket bookings, reports the Hindu BusinessLine.
Users would recall that Indian Railways provides two online booking methods – i-tickets, introduced in 2002-03, allows the traveller to place an order for a ticket, and get a physical ticket [...]
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