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 in
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Etislat-RCOM Tower Deal Etislat (earlier acquired 45% stake in Swan Telecom for $900mn) has signed a 10 year old tower sharing deal with Reliance’s infrastructure arm, marking the deal size to Rs. 10,000 crores. Earlier, Telenor had signed a deal with Tata-Quippo for
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Percept Knorigin has launched a travel search engine, ChalBabaChal that will enable travellers to look for cheapest flight tickets, trains and hotels
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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 name etc, but assuming that the news is true (it’s also published in all the...
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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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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 after few months back, put itself up for auction on eBay – the company, as we...
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iXiGO.com, India’s fastest growing travel site, today announced that it supported the move by international airlines to zero commissions for travel agents and that it will continue working strategically alongside airlines in growing their direct sales and reducing their distribution cost. 14 international carriers in India have recently moved to zero commissions with a transaction...
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Recently, we asked you all on your favorite Indian travel website and iXiGo emerged the final winner (in total, 1027 votes were polled). Post poll, we decided to conduct a detailed interview with iXiGo team – ask them questions on their business model, competition, future launches and most importantly, their entrepreneurial journey. So, here we go: You...
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1027 votes and the winner of India’s Most Trusted Travel Booking Site poll is..
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Discussions happening @ the startup forum: Updates from Startups IXiGo claims to have world’s largest hotel search engine – their search engine now searches 220,000 budget & luxury hotels across 23,400 cities in 202 countries. – more details @ Startup Marketplace Plug n Play Office Space for Startup in Gurgaon: Coexist with other startups. 24/6 access.100% Power backup...
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OTAs across the country have stopped selling Jet Airways ticket protesting against the zero commission/erosion of transaction fee. Esesntially, over 2500 travel agents (including OTAs) have stopped showing results from Jet Airways on their site – and this is where iXIGo sees an opportunity to position itself as a neutral player (with no specific alignment...
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Now that the online travel business is slowing down (commissions have dropped from 7% in 2001 to 5% in 2005, to almost 0% by October this year.) , most of the travel players are eyeing the hotel search business and are attempting to be the travel planner (instead of ticket booking portal) In order to...
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iXiGo has launched hotel search engine covering 4500 hotels in 320 Indian cities. iXiGO’s hotel search accesses more than 30 leading national and international hotel booking websites, enabling comparisons of room tariffs of the same hotel across multiple sites within a few seconds. The hotel search engine sorts accommodation by price, star ratings, amenities and...
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Just in: iXiGO, India’s fastest growing and innovative travel metasearch engine, announced their first round of financing from BAF Spectrum, Singapore today. The value of funding is undisclosed, but it seems like a pre Series A funding for marketing and content scale-up strategy. William Klippgen, Executive Director at BAF Spectrum is joining iXiGO’s board of...
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Indian startups have arrived and it’s great to see few names in the same league as Joost, Pluck, Wikia and other top tech startups of the world. iXiGo, the meta travel search engine is one of the few Indian startups that is part of Red Herring’s “Top 100 global tech startups in the...
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iXiGo has launched a new feature to compare OTA results with their own and has boldly enabled India’s first airline-OTA comparison paradigm. While searching for the cheapest flight, you can also select the OTA and iXiGo will open a new window displaying the search result from OTA’s website. Now why is this a big deal? Because iXiGo...
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90di, the newest entrant in Indian online travel industry is attempting to cover the entire spectrum of travel that is relevant to the Indian community :: cheapest airfare search + train search. Few key features of 90di:
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The online travel market, as we all know is overcrowded. Here is a quick recap of the existing players, what they do and their funding status: OTA (online travel agency) Funding Investor Extra plugs FlightRaja (now called Via) $5 million NEA Indo US ventures (owned by Vinod Dham) Domestic + International flight ticketing, bus ticketing, hotel reservations. MakeMyTrip $10 million SAIF Capital...
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iXiGO, the newest kid in “Indian Travel Search” town launched yesterday. It is a travel meta-search engine that aggregates content from 14 airlines and 3 travel search websites (makemytrip, yatra & indiatimes), and brings them to you in a pure Web 2.0 experience. But, do I need another travel search website? Aren’t there too...
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