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It is a comprehensive travel site, which
offers some of the best travel options in flights,
hotels, cruises, car rentals etc
Makemytrip.com is India's first
travel portal with online booking capabilities.
The company has received the IATA accreditation.
Makemytrip.com launched in October 2000, is incubated
by eVentures. It is a joint venture between Soft
Bank Inc., ePartners (NewsCorp) and
P.K. Mittal (Ispat Group).
It is a comprehensive travel site, which offers
some of the best travel options in flights, hotels,
cruises, car rentals and trains along with specially
created packages for destinations worldwide. It
displays information on all travel related products
- visas, passports, insurance and travel finance.
The site gives the user the advantage of booking
discounted airfares on all major routes to, from
and within India.
The site also has an exhaustive section on global
destinations, supported by photographs, intelligent
maps and exciting downloadable videos. It features
exclusive content for over 120 destinations, provided
both by professional travel writers and Lonely
Planet, the world's leading travel guide. It also
has special student & kids packages, online
chat facility with in-house travel experts and
even a section that encourages user generated
content in the form of travel stories and photographs.
To tap the NRI and international traffic, makemytrip.com
has created a network of offices at New Delhi,
Mumbai and New York. The travel portal also has
an extensive network of fulfillment centers, managed
and operated by its franchisees across important
cities in India and abroad. It currently has franchisees
in the top 15 Indian cities, in addition to leading
partners in UK and Australia.
Deep Kalra, CEO, makemytrip.com said,
"We have generated this high turnover largely
from inbound traffic, domestic packages for the
holiday season and due to our round-the-clock
customer support with online web chat facilities
and toll free numbers from 39 Indian cities."
Commenting on the IATA accreditation, Ambreesh
Mahajan, V.P.- Business Development said,
" IATA accreditation will give us instant
recognition in the travel and tourism trade and
open many windows of opportunity for our customers."
visit www.makemytrip.com
By Rahul Surkund
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