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
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
Percept Knorigin has launched a travel search engine, ChalBabaChal that will enable travellers to look for cheapest flight tickets, trains and hotels
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
1027 votes and the winner of India’s Most Trusted Travel Booking Site poll is..
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 [...]
