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TUI and Booking.com announce strategic global tours, attractions and experiences partnership
Leading travel companies TUI and Booking.com on Monday (08 June 2020) announced a strategic global experiences, activities and excursions partnership, providing millions of Booking.com customers worldwide with direct access to the rapidly growing activities segment of TUI and its digital…
Yatra Online Scraps Merger Deal With Ebix
Online travel services company, Yatra Online Inc on Friday said that it is terminating its pending merger agreement with US software firm Ebix Inc and filed a litigation over Ebix’s breach of agreement terms. The termination of one of the…
Tourism Minister discuss post lockdown protocols with OTAs
Union Tourism Minister Prahlad Patel on Friday met a delegation of leading online travel agents (OTAs) of the country to discuss calibrated opening of hotels and accommodation units and issuing post-lockdown protocols for travel-related activities. He shared the plan of…
14% of people says they will travel in 2020 – Thomas Cook & SOTC Survey Report
Thomas Cook (India) Ltd., India’s leading integrated travel services company, along with its Group company SOTC Travel Ltd. surveyed over 2500 consumers across India’s metros and Tier 1 & 2 cities (including Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Pune, Lucknow, Guwahati,…
EaseMyTrip Integrates Flight Bookings On WhatsApp
Popular online travel portal EaseMyTrip on Wednesday has announced integration on WhatsApp messenger to book flight ticket bookings. The integration will allow customers to book flight tickets at competitive rates for their desired destination through WhatsApp itself. This association of…
Thomas Cook UK to re-launch as an OTA by June
Fosun Tourism Group is reported to have recruited several former Thomas Cook UK executives ahead of a re-launch of the brand as an online travel company this summer. The Times says Thomas Cook UK is all set to be re-launch…
Online Travel Platform HappyEasyGo Raises Rs 350 Crore
Founded in 2017, Gurugram-based online travel startup HappyEasyGo declared that it’s raised its extended Series B round of funding. HappyEasyGo will use these funds to strengthen its air-ticketing business and develop its hotel division. Reportedly, the startup has raised around…
Booking.com plans to enter into flight and car rentals in India
As per the report published in Times of India (TOI), Bookings.com is planning to enter India’s extremely competitive online flight booking market, together with its car rentals platform rentalcars.com and restaurant reservation platform OpenTable. Booking.com presently operates its hotel aggregator…