Technology Magazine May 2018 | Page 112

YATRA ONLINE PVT LTD

By leveraging trailblazing technologies , Yatra Online is fulfilling the needs of the burgeoning Indian travel market to ensure that wherever your journey leads , it ’ s a good one

With a mushrooming population of around 1.3bn people , a burgeoning middle class , and travel becoming mainstream , the Indian travel sector is growing swiftly , and it shows no signs of slowing down .

Vacationers are not shying away from opening their wallets either , with the Indian travel market projected to reach a value of $ 48bn by 2020 , according to an in-depth report by Boston Consulting
Group ( BCG ) and Google India . Yatra Online , named after the Hindi word for ‘ journey ’, prides itself on understanding the true meaning of travel , making sure that whether you ’ re looking for hotels , holiday packages , bus , rail or flight tickets , it is a name you can count on .
As competition from foreign players like Airbnb and Booking . com has intensified , Yatra has steamed ahead with technological innovations that are helping the firm redefine itself
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