TravelMarg.com provides a wide choice of Holiday, Honeymoon, Family, Adventure and Tour packages across India and abroad.

Website: http://www.travelmarg.com/

Management

Raju Gottemukkala, CEO
Sunil Kumar, Marketing Manager

Company Address

TravelMarg.com
A division of EasyWay Technologies
4th floor, Uma Chambers,
Road No. 1, Banjara Hills,
Hyderabad – 500034, India

Contact Email ID: customercare@travelmarg.com

Contact Number: 040 – 400 20202

Key Competitors: MakeMyTrip, Cleartrip, Yatra

Must See India is a free travel planning and sharing site with the aim to make travel in India easy. It focuses on:
• Information: Provide complete and reliable information on all tourist destinations in India (when to go, where to go, what to see, maps)
• Planning and Sharing: Help travelers in trip planning and booking, sharing photos and experiences.

Management:

Vikas Rana, Founder & CEO
Vikas did his B Tech from IIT Delhi in 2002. He has over 5 yrs of leadership experience at Trilogy. He left Trilogy in late 2007 to fulfil his dream for Travel.

Sanjay Goel, Co-founder
Sanjay did his B Tech from IIT Delhi in 2002. He has over 5 yrs of product development experience in Internet advertising at Tribal Fusion.

Karan Nahata, Co-founder
Karan did his B Tech from NSIT in 2002. He has over 5 yrs of management and consulting experience at Trilogy in various customer-facing roles.

Company Address:
C3-1205, L&T South City,
Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore – 560076

Email: contact@mustseeindia.com
Tel: 080-4120-6179

Key Competitors:
HolidayIQ, OkTataByeBye, TripAdvisor

Website URL: http://www.mustseeindia.com

Journey Partner is an inbound e-travel and tour marketing company offering a wide range of inbound related products from hotel reservations of all budgets, India packages, sightseeing options and customized solutions to travel agents and tour operators.

Management

Ashwani Malhotra, Co-founder

Ashwani Malhotra, a 28-year old MCA with vast experience in travel industry, has created a dedicated and strong team, which can cater to every need of the discerning travellers.

Contact Information

H – 31, 3rd Floor Bali Nagar
New Delhi – 110015, India
Tel: +91 11 25463222 / 25463888
Fax: +91 11 25153097

Website: http://journeypartner.com/

Additional Information

JourneyPartner.com also has Hotel Reviews, Photographs and Client Testimonials. The company has worldwide tie ups with reputed and professional companies who ensure that its clients’ needs are taken care of in most reliable, friendly and service oriented manner.

Company Profile:

Holiday IQ is a leisure and lifestyle information services comapany based out of Bangalore. Launched in 2004 as India Resorts survey, Holiday IQ is a traveler community led Holiday Information site.

Management:

Hari Nair, Founder & CEO

Hari is a chartered account who left his corporate career to pursue his passion for travel. Prior to Holiday Hari was a Partner & Executive Director at KPMG India in Mumbai; Hari is the co-founder of HolidayIQ portal. Hari’s blog. Contact Hari: ceo@holidayiq.com

Vinu Krishnan – Co-founder & COO

Vinu is the Co-founder of Holiday IQ portal. An XLRI Jamshedpur graduate, Vinu has previously served at key positions in companies like Hewitt Associates & KPMG. Vinu looks after operations in Holiday IQ.

Investors

HolidayIQ has received 2 rounds of funding from Erasmic ventures & Vireet Investments. BCCL has also invested in HolidayIQ.

Contact Information:

HolidayIQ

No. 68, 1st Cross, 2nd Main
HAL III Stage,
Bangalore 560 075, India

Tel: +91 80 41153595

Additional Information:

Holiday IQ is a web 2.0 venture where consumers provide feedbacks and photographs of Travel destinations and Holiday accommodations in and across India.

Travelmasti” is an e-travel services business based out New Delhi, India. They provide Internet travel related services to inbound / domestic tourists & Corporate India for their conferences and other requirement. It also offers hotel reservations and information on various hotels and resorts in India. They also have a forum in place, Link Travelmasti forum:

Management:

Saghan Aggarwal, Founder & CEO

Saghan Aggarwal is a post graduate from Poona University. Prior to Travelmasti, Saghan’s held senior management posts in product management at Aricent and at Huges Software Systems. He overlooks product development and is also the CEO of the company.

Manan Aggarwal, COO

Manan Aggarwal a 28 year old MBA Finance graduate co-founded Travelmasti in mid 1999 along with Saghan.

Investor:

Bennett Coleman & Co. which owns The Times of India has acquired stake in Travelmasti for an undisclosed amount.

Website: www.travelmasti.com

Contact Information:

707 Vishwa Sadan Building
District Centre, Janakpuri
New Delhi – 110058, India

Tel: +91 11 25554101 – 25554105
Fax: +91 11 25554106

Additional Information:

Travelmasti also runs a forum board, which provides information and personal experiences needed traveling across the world.

Company Overview:

Arzoo is a travel portal which offers a range of services like Air Ticket Bookings, Hotel Bookings, Holiday Packages, Car Rentals, Travel Insurance, Foreign Exchange for Travel, Weekend Getaways etc.

Management

Sabeer Bhatia, Founder

Sabeer Bhatia has been to Birla Institute of Technology and Science before moving on to Stanford to finish his graduation. While at Stanford he got a chance to work on Ultra Low Power VLSI Design. He has worked with companies as diverse as Apple Inc a conglomerate & Firepower Systems Inc an early start up before launching HoTMaiL Inc in 1996. Hotmail was bought over by Microsoft in 1997 and from there he moved on to Arzoo.com, which was shut during the Dotcom bubble burst. In 2006 Arzoo was relaunched as a Travel portal. His other achievements

Yogesh Patel, COO & CTO

Yogesh Patel is a serial entrepreneur who founded and co-founded many startups. He has worked at IBM Storage Division as Team Leader for ASIC chips for Storage products. Hotvoice Communications International, Inc. funded by SoftBank, was co-founded by him. Rincon was another IT consulting company co-founded by Mr Yogesh. Yogesh Patel now is the Chief Operating & Technology Officer at Arzoo.com.

Website: www.arzoo.com,

Corporate Address

Arzoo.com
NavinMail Services (I) Pvt. Ltd.
Samrudhi Venture Park, 5th Floor,
MIDC Central Road, Andheri – East,
Mumbai – 400093.

City: Mumbai

Additional Information:

Arzoo was founded in 2006 and it serves different consumer segments viz:  individuals, families and businesses.

Company Overview:

Yatra is an online travel portal. It provides travel-related information, pricing, availability and reservations for airlines, hotels, buses and car rentals across 5000 large cities and small rural areas, throughout India.

Management

Name: Dhruv Shringi, Co-Founder

Prior to co-founding Yatra, Dhruv was working as Director, Group Operations and Technology of the Ebookers Group. Prior to his stint at Ebookers, he worked with Ford Motor Company and also with Arthur Andersen. Dhruv holds an MBA from INSEAD and is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Name:Manish Amin, Co-Founder

Manish is a veteran of the travel industry with over 20 years experience in the Travel and IT industry, 15 of which were with Ebookers.

Name: Sabina Chopra, Co Founder

Prior to Yatra, Sabina headed India based Operations of ebookers, Europe’s largest online travel company. She has also worked with Japan Airlines and a Canadian Airline. Her BPO work experience includes heading Operations for RAC (Aviva Plc) and Hewitt Associates. Sabina holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Delhi University.

Website: www.yatra.com

Corporate Address:

Yatra Online Pvt. Ltd.

B-21, Infocity, Sector-34,

Gurgaon-122002, Haryana,

INDIA
City: Haryana

Investors: Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Reliance Capital and Television 18 Group (TV18)

Key Competition: www.makemytrip.com , www.cleartrip.com

Additional Notes: Booking of airline and bus tickets and reservation of hotel rooms and car rentals can also be done by calling Yatra’s call center.

The company has also launched a social networking site raahi.com that aggregates content related to travel advisory and other support functions.

Company Overview:

Expedia.com is an internet-based travel agency, part of Expedia, Inc.(NASDAQ: EXPE), headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, USA. It books airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages, and various attractions and other travel related services via their online travel site in US, localized versions throughout Europe and their extensive partnerships in Asia. They are yet to launch their India specific operations. The company currently operates in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and UK, besides US.

Management:

Sharat Dhall, MD – India Operations, Expedia Inc.

Sharat Dhall is MD – India operations, Expedia Inc. Sharat Dhall was VP, e-commerce at Indiatimes & prior to joining Times Internet Ltd (TIL) about a year-and-a-half ago, Dhall was working for HLL (now, HUL) as business head of its rural venture, Project Shakti.

Corporate Board Members:

• Barry Diller, Chairman and Senior Executive, Expedia, Inc.
• Dara Khosrowshahi, President & CEO, Expedia, Inc.
• Michael Adler,CFO, Expedia, Inc.
• Paul Brown, President, Expedia, Inc. / Partner Services Group /President, Expedia North America.
• Bill Holtz, CIO, Expedia, Inc.

Website: www.expedia.com

Corporate Address

Expedia Headquarters

Expedia, Inc.
3150 139th Avenue SE
Bellevue, WA 98005

Company Overview:

Travelocity is an US based full service, consumer – direct travel agency for the leisure and business traveller. It provides information on airlines / cruise lines / car rentals & vacation and travel related packages around the world. Travelocity offers Indian travellers online travel planning and shopping experience, varied value and choices, safe and secure booking and buying online.

Travelocity works in India through its acquired, Asia-Pacific subsidiary Zuji.com, headquartered in Singapore. Travelocity India Pvt. Ltd operates from Delhi in India.

Management:

Himanshu Singh, MD – Travelocity, India

Himanshu Singh has been on the Executive member team of Zuji and is responsible for Travelocity strategy and team, including marketing, supplier relations, customer service and B2B opportunities in India. Prior to joining Travelocity, Himanshu worked as group head of global distribution, electronic sales and marketing at Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces.

Other Key Executives, Zuji

• Scott Blume, CEO – Zuji, Singapore.
• Kok Kit, Wong, CFO – Zuji, Singapore
  

Website: www.travelocity.co.in

Investor:

Travelocity is private limited company owned by Sabre Holdings, Silver Lake and TPG and is headquartered in Southlake, Texas. Sabre holdings closed the final quarter for the year 2006 with a revenue of $ 2.8 billion.

Key Competitors:

www.makemytrip.com

www.cleartrip.com

www.travelguru.com

Additional Information:

The new Travelocity India website offers Indian travelers a choice from a list of 72,000 hotels, 1,000 cruises and over 4,000 popular sights, tours, along with destination guides and other travel tools globally. Travelocity intends to promote online travel agents (OTA) and thus mark their foray into Indian local market.

Customer care:

Email Info: hotelcustomercare@travelocity.in

Phone: 0124 239 8222

Company Overview:

VIA formerly known as flightraja is an integrated travel service company also providing its ticket reservation assistance through kiosks, SMS, travel agents and through its website Flightraja.com in India and Internationally.

Management:

Ashwini Kakkar, Chairman

Ashwini Kakkar joined the board in September 2005 and has taken an equity stake for an undisclosed personal investment in the company. Ashwini Kakkar is an industry veteran and prior to Flightraja, he was working as a Managing Director and CEO at Thomas Cook India.

Vinay Gupta, CEO & Founder

Vinay Gupta founded Flightraja (2005) and has been the CEO since then. His past experience includes working with Credit Suisse First Boston as a Sr. Consultant (2004 – 2005). He is pursuing his CFA – level II from Sri Venkateshwara institute.

Board Members:

1. Niranjan Gupta
2. Amit Aggarwal
3. Rohit Gaddi
4. Harsh Azad

Investors:

NEA Indo US ventures has invested in FlightRaja.

Key Competitors:

MakeMyTrip, Yatra, TravelGuru,Cleartrip,Ezeego1,Indiatimestravel

Corporate Offices:

Flightraja,
No. 53, Alpine Murali Point,
Bowring Hospital Road,
Bangalore – 560 001
INDIA