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As India gradually opens up, travellers begin to check in for leisure travelAccording to a survey done by ixigo with over 5,000 users in September, 21% of the respondents said that they were travelling for a workati...
Move over, expensive hotels: Homestays are offering a home-away-from-home experienceHomestays opened up windows to forge friendships that last beyond that week-long trip.
Use Airbnb, TripAdvisor to make money off your spare roomWhile smaller spaces, such as a single bedroom, will draw less rent, small and shared spaces have more takers.
Homestays, 'bleisure', food and medical tourism were most popular travel trends of 2017Homestays is a rapidly growing segment in the country, primarily to tap the culture of a place visited.
Yatra.com launches android ‘smart watch wear’ appYatra said it is also the first online travel agency in India to have adopted accelerated mobile pages (AMP) in an attempt to offer a faste...
More Indians heading out for vacations this year, shows dataPortals, tour operators and travel companies say there has been a significant surge in hotel and flight bookings for the upcoming summer va...
Yatra unveils new brand identityVikrant Mudaliar, chief marketing Officer, Yatra said, "The new red logo helps us to stand out in an increasingly cluttered media environme...
Musafir finds new hands to join its journey to profitsMusafir that offers booking services in flights, hotels, holidays and visas sees 75% of its revenues coming from flights and 25% from hotel...
MakeMyTrip enters alternate homestay space with RightstayDeep Kalra, chairman of MakeMyTrip, expects the number to rise to more than 100,000 by the end of next year.
Yatra.com launches TG Rooms, TG Stays starting at Rs 499Yatra.com has launched TG Rooms and TG Stays with a starting price of Rs 499 in over 60 cities, expanding its presence in the budget accomm...
How online travel firms like Yatra and Cleartrip are enteringing into the budget accommodation spaceExecutives at OTA have set their sights on the burgeoning budget accommodation space as travellers in India increasingly prefer small, unbr...
Mobile apps topple travel agents, emerge as top mode of holiday bookings"Our mobile bookings have risen significantly, with over two-fifths of our traffic recorded from smartphones and tablets," said Sharat Dhal...
Guesthouser: A startup that verifies accommodations, offers travellers taste of local cultureThe Gurgaon-based company has 14,000 properties listed and has received over 2,000 booking requests since the portal was officially launche...
Homestays gain popularity among youth, grab part of online business from premium hotelsSaffronstay, which opened its bookings this August, already has 725 homestays and B&Bs (having over 3,500 rooms) listed on it.
Travel startups Zostel, Trip Factory, Oravel clone global businesses to suit tourist interestsThe startups are cloning biz models of successful int'l travel ventures like Expedia, TripAdvisor etc. to suit the business conditions in I...
Travelling with lot of friends? Vacation rentals offer a good dealFor the uninitiated, this is a fully furnished private accommodation, which is let out by the owner to tourists who are interested in short...
- Thailand floods push tourists towards India
More tourists are coming to India or travelling within the country due to the devastating floods in Thailand, the popular Southeast Asian b...