Indian travel portals comparison


MakeMyTrip.com 		Yatra.com ClearTrip.com TravelGuru.com TravelmartIndia.com
Founded April 2000 US2India ticketing
2005 – India domestic ticketing		 August 2006 July 2006 February 2006 March 2000
Market served
(TIFI == Ticketing to International destinations From India)		 Domestic flights, hotels,vacation packages, TIFI
Offer ticketing from US & Australia to India as well		 Domestic flights,hotels, recently started TIFI Domestic flights, hotels Domestic flights, hotels, TIFI, vacation packages Domestic flights, hotels, TIFI, vacation packages
Sales Figures $100 million by Feb 2007
Estimated $120 million by march 2007 [1 ]		 $30-35 million by Feb 2007
Estimated $120 million by 2007 end [2 ]		 No figures available. Aiming for 400000 transactions in first year [3 ] none available none available
VC Funding $10m + $6m + $13m
[4 ],[5 ],[6 ]		 $5m
[7 ]		 $3m + $8m
[8 ], [9 ]		 $10m + $15m
[10 ]		 none available
Market Share
(based on alexa traffic)		 50-55 % 17-19% 17-19% 7-9% 1-3%
User Interface while searching/booking tickets Bad. Gaudy colors. My biggest gripe – till the last screen, it did not clearly show me the total cost (tax incl.) of the selected flights. decent – looks very cluttered though. sorting of flights by price, departure time etc. Also displays the cheapest fare for the selected itinerary. Response time a bit slow though. Simplest, cleanest and best user interface amongst all. Easily readable info about prices (incl. taxes) good, intuitive interface for selecting the departing and returning flight. however, when i clicked book it, took forever to contact payment gateway – huge problem. after 2-3 minutes of searching, it came back with an error that no flights were found.
Results from a sample booking from Ahmedabad to Mumbai (dep: April 9, return: April 23) Rs/- 3548 Rs/- 4000 Rs/- 3555 Rs/- 3324 returned no flights in result
Sample itinerary booking above – airlines included in result SpiceJet, Indian Airlines, Jet,Air India Indian Airlines, Jet, Air India, Sahara, Kingfisher Spicejet,Indian Airlines, Kingfisher Spicejet, Indian Airlines, Air India, Jet, Kingfisher returned no flights in result
Mobile features recently announced mobile features in the works [11 ] couldnt find any on their website Recently introduced searching for fare listings by SMS launched SMS flight booking in Karnataka. Couldnt find anything on their website though.
[12 ]		 Search, book flights by SMS. Tied up with Paymate for booking through mobile
Miscellaneous differentiators Market leader. shortlisted for Red Herring 100 Asia companies. Book hotels from any Reliance World Outlet. Also, have introduced a sister site www.raahi.com as a travel destination guide. Great, clean interface. Founding team collaborates through blog soliciting feedback and making appropriate changes. offers cruise bookings too. mobile booking features. first online travel portal in India. offers ‘conference planner’ service.
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8 comments

  1. Abhinav Saxena
    March 18, 2007 at 6:39 am

    You should compare http://www.in.farechase.yahoo.com too. It is good. Recently, when I was trying to book tickets, farechase gave me better prices in comparison to makemytrip.com & yatra.com.

  2. Abhinav Saxena
    March 18, 2007 at 6:40 am

    Sorry for broken link, it should be http://in.farechase.yahoo.com/

  3. pranav
    March 19, 2007 at 10:17 am

    Abhinav,

    Based on the research I did, I did not find yahoo farechase to be so very popular. People still turn to MMT, yatra and cleartrip for their travel bookings.

    However, if you’ve come across any resource which mentions that yahoo farechase is very popular, pass on the url to the resource. I ‘d be interested in reading that.

    thnx,
    -pranav.

  4. Abhinav
    March 21, 2007 at 11:35 pm

    Pranav, you are right, Farechase isn’t popular in India. But it looks like they are purposefully not marketing this product in India now, and perhaps waiting for it to stablize (This was said by a senior Yahoo! India official)

  5. pranav
    March 22, 2007 at 4:57 pm

    Abhnav,

    thanks for keeping me informed.

    Pranav.

  6. arpan kar
    August 14, 2007 at 1:45 pm

    Dear sir,
    I’m a marketing student of XLRI jamshedpur.
    I’m currently comparing the following in the travel and tourism.
    ”
    Incredible India
    Malaysia – Truly Asia
    Cox and Kings
    Madhya Pradesh – Hindustan ka dil
    Kerala – God’s own Country
    Make my trip.com
    ”

    I’m looking these up in terms of positioning, segmentation, and other marketing dynamics as applicable depending on avaibility. If you have any data as the above, it would be of immense help if you could share it.As it is, I found the above data very helpful.
    Hoping to hear from you soon.
    arpan