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Online travel bookings space is an extremely competitive one in India. New startups are coming up and threatening businesses of large incumbents. This is especially true in Online hotel booking space. Over past year of so, tens of…

Paytm, a leading mobile wallet and ecommerce company in India is now readying itself to launch an Online Travel Agency or commonly known as OTA. The company is said to have been in talks with the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to…

There is a reason Sachin Tendulkar opted to invest in a travel related ecommerce venture, compared to all other businesses in the world: It’s the biggest online business in India! And the fact has yet again been proved as Google…

Sachin Tendulkar, the iconic cricketer who is going to play his 200th and last test match against West Indies next month, has made an investment in online travel portal. Way back in June, 2013, he had picked up a minority stake of 7.5%…

This was on cards – Google’s hotel finder service, which allows users to search hotels across geographies has now started aggregating hotel data from Indian Online Travel agencies (OTAs). Google’s search results are not only getting…

Cleartrip has launched an interesting solution that will be mighty beneficial for international travelers. One of the most difficult task for an international traveler is to time the purchase of his tickets so he gets the best deal.…

Redbus today announced partnership with Expedia, that will enable users to book Bus ticket on Expedia site. With this partnership, Expedia gets access to bus seat inventory across more than 180,000 bus services which are operated by 900…

On one hand IRCTC is launching various initiatives to make it easier for consumers to book train tickets online and on the other hand they are coming up with rules that will make life difficult for consumers. According to a Cleartrip post…

Indian Ecommerce space has been growing consistently over past few years, and is expected to grow even fiercely in coming years. However, it is dominated by one sector – Online Travel Booking. Infact, OTA command more than 80% of all the…

Last year I did a comparison of 10 OTA's operating in India. The comparison was done based on 5 different parameters like Ticket fares, Flight options, Destinations, User Friendliness and value added services. In that comparison IXIGO…