Online Travel

Ixigo to acquire 60% stake in Spanish train booking platform Trenes

Travel aggregator Ixigo's board has approved the acquisition of a 60 per cent stake in Spain's second-largest train booking platform Online Travel Solutions (Trenes), for 11.70 million euro (over Rs 125 crore). The proposed acquisition will help leverage Ixigo's product, technology and AI leadership in the European OTA market as Trenes is engaged in the business of providing an online platform for train ticket bookings, primarily catering to the Spanish market, with operations extending to certain other parts of Southern Europe. Consequent to the acquisition, Online Travel Solutions, S.L. will become a step-down subsidiary of Ixigo, it stated in a late-night regulatory filing on Friday. The board of directors of Ixigo also approved the acquisition of a 45.02 per cent stake in Squad As Service, S.L., Spain (Sqaas) for a total consideration of 0.45 million euro (over Rs 4.83 crore). The total consideration for both acquisitions includes non-compete fees and authorisation of the signi

Insights on visa processing from the co-founder of StampMyVisa

In this session, Rahul Borude, Co-founder & CEO of StampMyVisa shares his rich insights on visa processing and provides career tips to BSchool students

Electric ride-hailing startup BluSmart may opt for hybrid model of ops

Services likely to be offered on Uber as well

India a top five country for us globally, says Booking.com parent

While foreign tourist arrivals in India are yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, Steenbergen noted strong international demand from travellers wanting to visit the country

EaseMyTrip enters medical tourism; board approves Rs 90 crore acquisitions

EaseMyTrip has acquired a 30% stake in Rollins International for Rs 60 crore and a 49% stake in Pflege Home Healthcare for Rs 30 crore

Significant percentage of Indians fall victim to online travel scams: Rpt

With the rise in tourism in the country post Covid, the sector is also witnessing an increase in online travel scams as a significant percentage of travellers have been duped while trying book holidays to save money, a report said on Sunday. About 51 per cent of Indian respondents have fallen victim to online scams while trying to save money when booking travel, according to the 'Safer Holidays' Travel report by McAfee Corp. The report also revealed that 77 per cent of those who had money stolen have lost up to USD 1,000 (Rs 83,000) before their trip has even begun. The Safer Holidays Travel report is based on a survey among 7,000 people across seven countries, including 1,010 from India. The report further revealed that 66 per cent of all Indian vacationers said they will travel domestically this year and 42 per cent will do so internationally. In today's economic environment, Indian adults are more likely to seek out a bargain deal online (54 per cent), move quickly to snap up a

Uber users in Delhi, NCR can book their rides using Hindi on WhatsApp

Uber users can now avail its services on WhatsApp in both Hindi and English languages

MakeMyTrip-owned RedBus plans integrated end-to-end online travel solutions

With the launch of RedRail app, the leading bus platform aims to be IRCTC's biggest ticket booking partner in two years

EaseMyTrip net profit zooms over four-fold to Rs 27 crore in Sept quarter

The online travel firm on Tuesday reported an over four-fold jump in consolidated net profit

Sonu Sood launches rural B2B travel tech platform Travel Union

With a mission to support, digitally empower and build a leading travel agent community in rural India at zero investment, the firm aims to be the largest rural digital travel services platform

Easy Trip Planners IPO subscribed 159.30 times so far on last day

Easy Trip Planners' initial public offer was subscribed a whopping 159.30 times so far on the last day of subscription

Tourism firm TUI Group aims to tap India's booming online travel market

The Indian online travel market has been seeing a growth led by steep discounts and offers from market leaders

Demonetisation effect: Online travel sales rise in 2017

Mobile travel sales, a subset of online sales, to residents grew by 58% in terms of current value sales

Yatra to merge with Nasdaq firm

Deal with TRTL values travel portal at $218 million; existing management to continue