Business Description:Yatra.com is India's leading Online Travel Company. Air tickets, hotel rooms, holiday packages, buses, car rentals; yatra.com has everything to service today's traveler.
With yatra.com, you can book tickets over the internet, through their 24x7 customer care center, Yatra.com Holiday Lounges or by simply using your mobile phone.
Industry:Hospitality/ Travel
Founded in:2005
Source of idea:Replicated or modified an idea encountered through previous employment
Significant Competitors:makemytrip.co.in, cleartrip.com, and travelocity.co.in
Company Details :
Company Name:Yatra Online
HeadQuarters:Gurgaon
Stage of the company:Scaling up
No of Employees (2006):101-300
No of Employees (2007):301-1000
Office Locations(2006):0-1
Office Locations(2007):16-30
No of companies promoted:No
Profits (2006):
Profits (2007):
>Partnerships:* Mastercard: Special privileges from Yatra to Mastercard users
* Sify: Offering Yatra's services via Sify's 7000 retail points in 220 cities
* Barclay: Issue of exclusive Barclay credit card to Yatra users
* ICICI: Special privileges from Yatra to ICICI customers
* AOL: Powering AOL's travel search functionality
* Indiaplaza: Powering Indiaplaza's travel search functionality
* Hughes: Offering Yatra's services via HughesNet Fusion centers
* Citibank: Special privileges from Yatra to Citibank customers
* ITZ: Offering Yatra's services via ITZ's 3000 retail points
Initial Funding:Personal savings
Addl Funding:Venture capital
Institutitional Capital:Yes
Revneue Model:Commission from service providers (airlines/hotels/buses etc.) on bookings.
Awards & honors:* Award for Excellence' in August-07 from TTF-OTM (India's biggest travel show).
* In June, 2008 Yatra.com was recognized as the 'most used travel website' by JuxtConsult.
* Kingfisher has awarded Yatra twice in 2007 for its contribution to national flight bookings.
* Amadeus has honored Yatra for 'Outstanding Productivity' in 2006.
Promoters Details :
Promoters Name(s):Dhruv Shringi
Age:35
HomeTown:New Delhi
Education:Masters
No of companies promoted:No
Family Background:First gen entrepreneur
Job:Director at E-Bookers.com
Ex-Job Description:Handling operations of Europe region
Favorite Book/Movie:Art of War by Sun Tzu, Translation by Samuel B Griffith
