Tag: MakeMyTrip
Travel portals remove Oyo and Zo
October 29 (TravelAndy): Oyo and Zo, two budget hotel aggregates in India, have recently been de-listed from major online travel portals MakeMyTrip, Yatra and Goibibo, said The Economic Times (ET).
Both Oyo and Zo have confirmed the de-listing. They said this was not going to affect their business.
“There will be a small dip in bookings, but the growth from our app and other associations will more than make up for it,” Kavikrut, chief growth officer at OYO Rooms told the newspaper. Continue reading Travel portals remove Oyo and Zo
Mobikwik says hi to Indian travellers
May 11 (TravelAndy): India-based digital payment service provider Mobikwik recently announced its partnership with four leading Indian travel portals — MakeMyTrip, Cleartrip, Yatra and Goibibo.
People using these sites will be able to book make payments for flights, train, bus and hired cars taxi and hotel bookings from their Mobikwik wallets, instead of using credit cards, debit cards and net banking accounts, the company claimed.
MobiKwik expects to facilitate travel and hotel bookings worth Rs 200 crore over the next one year, reports said.
Paytm, another mobile wallet company, recently started a similar partnership with Indian Railways.
MakeMyTrip acquires Mygola
April 23 (TravelAndy): Online travel agency MakeMyTrip has acquired “certain assets” of travel start-up Mygola.com.
A statement released by the acquiring company said the entire team of Mygola will now work with MakeMyTrip.
“The Mygola team’s deep understanding of travellers’ planning and in-destination experience preferences will be very valuable in strengthening our proposition in these and related areas of customer engagement,” said MakeMyTrip India co-founder and CEO Rajesh Magow, Co-Founder & CEO – MakeMyTrip India.
Mygola.com covers more than 20,000 destinations worldwide and sees around five lakh organic visitors every month.
Mygola CEO Anshuman Bapna, who founded the company with Prateek Sharma in 2009, said, “MakeMyTrip is the leader in one of the world’s most exciting travel markets, and the (Mygola) team is super-excited to bring all this knowledge to the millions of MakeMyTrip travellers.”