India’s Most Trusted Travel Site – Verdict is out.

March 5, 2009
By sinha

1027 votes and the winner of India’s Most Trusted Travel Booking Site poll is..

iXiGO.

Results

Top 5 Fav Traveling Sites

  1. iXiGo with 274 votes
  2. Yatra – 194 votes
  3. ClearTrip – 171 votes
  4. Surprise entry – 90di with 145 votes
  5. MMT stands at #5 with 112 votes.



Apart from the total number of votes (1000+ is not an easy number and I am sure market research companies will agree with me on that), what’s important is the fact about the quality of audience pluGGd.in reaches out to – mostly very tech savvy and early adopters/influencers in technology world.

Congrats to iXiGo team (read our first impressions of iXiGo when they launched in 2007)

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15 Responses to “ India’s Most Trusted Travel Site – Verdict is out. ”

  1. Ravi Venkatraman on March 6, 2009 at 8:08 am

    Congratulations to iXigo .

  2. Aloke on March 6, 2009 at 9:36 am

    We feel overwhelmed and would like to thank our users, supporters and evangelists for all their adulation !

    This gives our team renewed belief and enthusiasm on building more killer products to solve your complex travel problems.

    Cheers,
    Aloke
    on behalf of the iXiGO Team

  3. Khushnood on March 6, 2009 at 10:30 am

    Ashish & folks at pluggd.in – Congratulations on your effort and the enthusiastic response you got! We are also quite pleased to be in the top 5 and to appear at no. 4. Thanks to all who voted and supported us.

    We take the verdict with humility – knowing that we are still establishing ourselves and are yet to gain as much traction as some of the biggies, whom we are close to in this poll.

    But I guess this poll kind of reflects, what the thought leaders (the early adopters of any technology) feel and I am particularly happy with the response that travel search has been getting, in India, with-respect to OTA. So congrats to all who have done well!

    PS: I also promise on behalf or our team at 90di, that we shall also put in all our effort and will try not to lag much behind in solving the “complex travel problems” and building good products. :-)

    • Virupakshan K on March 6, 2009 at 11:39 am

      Hi Khushnood,

      I travel by train most of the time. Sometimes I use both Flight & Train. Your service through http://www.90di.com/travel is really useful in many ways. To say in a few words about 90di, “It is Simply Superb!”.

      Hope you will reach No.1 position soon.

      All the best!

      Thanks and regards,
      Viru

      Founder: http://www.HomePlanGuru.com

  4. Saurav Patnaik on March 6, 2009 at 11:04 am

    Nice I must say :)

  5. [...] India’s Most Trusted travel booking Site %26ndash; Verdict is out … 1027 votes and the winner of India’s Most Trusted travel booking Site poll is.. iXiGO. Results Top 5 Fav traveling Sites iXiGo with 274. [...]

  6. Tamal on March 7, 2009 at 12:33 am

    Congrats iXiGO, glad to have announced them way back in Jun 2007 :)

  7. Aloke on March 7, 2009 at 2:42 pm

    Thanks everyone.

    We need to work harder to maintain the level of trust everyone has put on us!

    Cheers,
    Aloke

  8. [...] came fourth at pluggd.in poll for Indis’s most trusted travel search site among 12 sites polled. This poll drew amzing user participation with more than 1000 votes casted. [...]

  9. Vivek on March 9, 2009 at 6:13 pm

    Any idea how they make money?

  10. Aloke on March 9, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    Yeah !

    Go to http://www.ixigo.com/html/info/faq.ixi

    See General Question #8 “How do you make your money?”

    Cheers,
    Aloke

  11. Dalaman on April 12, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    Finally someone who can write a good blog ! I loved your post and will be telling others about it. Subscribing to your RSS feed now. Thanks

  12. venkat bangalore on April 17, 2009 at 5:01 pm

    Hi everybody frm India bangalore…venkat speaks..to all I want to check the train fare for bangalore to chennai oneday.I used the site http://www.indiantrains.orgIt was really good to check the fare,availablity,Maps..Etc..I was useful for me on that day so If govt official join with this means can do better service to all over India..Thank you all…

  13. Amol Singh on August 19, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    Congratulations to iXoGO. Definitely a good site.

    We launched a site (www.terimerideal.com) recently for India. It is primrily focused on Travel and Electronics deals out there with many online sites and vendors. The platform is in Beta stage, Check it out. Would love to get feedback from others.

    Thanks.

  14. Ashish on April 12, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    @Rajesh – you probably didn’t read the earlier post on criteria for including travel sites.
    Please read and then tweet (hope that helps)

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