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Indian OTAs – Who is riding the traffic wave?

By sinha 5 Comments

So the consolidation in Indian OTA business has begun and what’s interesting is that post Travelguru acquisition, Travelocity will be an OTA as well as a search player (iXiGo powers Travelguru’s flight search). We believe there will be further consolidation … Read More »

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18 May

Indian OTAs on Airline’s decision to launch their Agency (Rang7)

By sinha 12 Comments

We earlier covered the launch of Rang7, OTA created by Kingfisher/Spicejet and Indigo airlines that will enable users to buy tickets directly from the site (and help airlines reduce agency/distribution cost). Though there are few concerns we had regarding domain … Read More »

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10 Dec

Indian Railways Clocks Rs 3.7Billion in e-transaction, partners with ClearTrip for Hotel Booking

By sinha 7 Comments

Indian railways has launched online hotel booking service powered by Cleartrip (they are the exclusive provider of hotel content, availability and pricing to the Indian Railways) This is quite a big win for ClearTrip as Indian Railways is one of … Read More »

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14 Aug

And why ClearTrip is supporting India’s offline travel agents and wants to stand by them?

By sinha 8 Comments

Very recently, I covered how Indian OTAs are under a serious threat because of the vanishing commission from flight booking. It seems ClearTrip is realizing this fast and is now displaying following message on it’s site: Cleartrip supports India’s offline … Read More »

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28 May

ClearTrip launches Travel Videos

By sinha 1 Comment

ClearTrip has launched travel videos covering 36 Indian cities. One to three minutes long, these videos (un)cover everything from monuments and traditional sightseeing hubs to hidden facets of a city. So expect to see not only the Taj Mahal and … Read More »

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11 Apr

Spamming – the Indian Startup way

By sinha 10 Comments

Won’t take names, but you should be able to guess: Startup #1 : Two ways to spam: Sends emails from different names, and different ids. Also sends email from the team@x.com id – which is the official mailer id. One … Read More »

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10 Apr

New Launches roundup: Reliance’s Education Portal, ClearTrip’s international products..and more

By sinha 1 Comment

RCom launches educational portal Reliance Communications has launched an educational portal called ‘Exam Guru’ on mobile platform that will provide information on exam results, college admissions, exam schedules, admission deadlines, mock tests and tips for bettering performance. The portal also … Read More »

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28 Feb

ClearTrip receives third round of funding

By sinha 10 Comments

ClearTrip has received $18.5mn in the third round of funding led by DFJ ($10 mn) and the rest was led by Mahindra Group and all the four firms that had previously invested in Cleartrip. This brings the total investment in … Read More »

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06 Feb

Exclusive: ClearTrip to launch Train search service

By sinha 8 Comments

Cleartrip is working on train search service and though the service is not part of the main product, one can access it from here. As of now, the service allows one to only search for train routes, check fares, train/details, … Read More »

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