Following up on my earlier post on online travel space , here is an updated compilation of the travel players who have either launched their offerings or have announced the same.
Operational sites
Indiatimes Travel
MakeMyTrip
Travelguru
Xplorz : (Promoted by Tulip Travels)
Thomas Cook
Mobissimo : Fare search & redirect to airline for booking fulfilment
Rediff Fare Search : Fare search & redirect
Traveljini : Tavel content
Launch announced
Yatra
Cleartrip
Ezeego1 – Cox and Kings, read more
Travelocity India : read more
Sify's acquisition of Globe travels : read more (Updated : 6th June 2006)
This makes it more than a dozen sites already and counting ! Any wagers on who will survive ?
8 comments:
This list has only one international player travelocity who have recently anounced their plans to enter ndian market through their Asian company -Zuji.
I am sure we can expect Expedia, Priceline etc to also come in.
I thought traveljini.com funded by ICICI went under. Its main page was non operational for ages (now I see it operational).
How much money do they recieve for the local flight booking.
In US I think expedia & Travelocity gets $5 flat rate per Domestic flight booking.
Regarding Hotel booking, StayXS has been in existence for years.
In fact, our site http://www.Hotel.co.in is powered by StayXS
Success for any player, IMHO, will depend on how comprehensive the listings will be, how 'full-service' the firm will be, and how much of the market will they address. Mobile users included? Offline users included?
The US-based players will definitely enter the Indian market shortly, so expect there to be consolidation pretty soon. Firms like Cleartrip, Travelguru and MakeMyTrip have all raised VC moolah from US-based investors. Look for them to get "biz-dev'd" into an exit soon.
what will be interesting to see how many can survive the market .
The domestic airlines are already would rather go direct and offer the price advantage to the end customer .
With the serve shortage of hotel rooms in the country, not much of a play ...
So it will be interesting to see the biz models these guys come up with .
Anurag:
Its actually interesting to see the continuous emergence of new players in this space - the wierdest thing is that almost all of them are online travel agents and have little advantage over discount-savvy airlines and other travel providers. I wrote about this sometime back here:
http://blog.indiagoes.com/?p=28
and
http://blog.indiagoes.com/?p=10
you would see an entry into this space by Yahoo India very soon ... something of their own or a tie-up...
Depends on how they deferentiate,build the brand makemytrip doing well in building there brands(there viral campigns are cool)
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I am searching for some facts and figures on online education in india, current players, their geographical spread and other indian education statistics, if u can help me out in this.
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