Tag Archives: Indian travel Industry

12 May

IRCTC Flying and Wants You To Fly- Starts Selling Air Tickets, Catering Partner for CWG

By Guest Author 12 Comments
IRCTC Flying and Wants You To Fly- Starts Selling Air Tickets, Catering Partner for CWG

IRCTC had announced earlier that it would be looking to sell Air tickets on their site and that offering is now live. IRCTC.co.in has started selling flight tickets for all routes and all domestic carriers. Though some routes were available … Read More »

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17 Sep

Customer Focus : Why Indian online travel space is not with it, mostly

By sameer 6 Comments

Indian OTAs are purely transactional in nature – what they are missing is the art of ‘consultative’ selling. 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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18 May

Rang7 – Confusion over the entity

By sinha 3 Comments

We earlier covered the launch of Rang7, the OTA from Spicejet, Indigo and Kingfisher. Contrary to the press release (which even had the quote from FIA secretary), one of the industry sources tell us that the airlines have decided to … Read More »

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18 May

Spicejet, IndiGo and Kingfisher partner to launch their online travel agency, Rang7

By sinha 5 Comments
Spicejet, IndiGo and Kingfisher partner to launch their online travel agency, Rang7

Spicejet, IndiGo and Kingfisher have partnered to launch their own OTA (online travel agency), Rang7 (will go live by May 3rd week). Teaming up will help them reduce agency cost (Indian carriers spend close to Rs. 200 Crore in distribution

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06 May

MagicRooms – FlightRaja Founder Launches B2B Hotel Aggregator Startup

By sinha 2 Comments
MagicRooms – FlightRaja Founder Launches B2B Hotel Aggregator Startup

FlightRaja (now Via) co-founder, Niranjan Gupta has launched MagicRooms, a B2B hotel aggregator that distributes the inventory of hotels across travel agents as well as online channels. MagicRooms enables hotel partners to distribute parity rate over different sales channels and … Read More »

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22 Apr

Quiz : Who acquired Tripmela?

By sinha 4 Comments

We conduct quiz on twitter (follow us) everyday @ 2 PM and the same enthusiasm has now percolated to pluGGd.in. So today’s quiz question – Who acquired Tripmela? To give you some context, Tripmela was a deal sourcing site and … Read More »

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05 Mar

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

By sinha 15 Comments
India’s Most Trusted Travel Site – Verdict is out.

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

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27 Feb

Update on “India’s Most Trusted Travel site” poll

By sinha 6 Comments

800 votes so far!! Well, like I mentioned earlier, we extended the poll deadline and the poll ends on March 5th. Few details to keep in mind: Several of the travel companies have called/mailed me asking how to vote/poll etc … Read More »

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