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OYO Rooms expands to North-East region of India
Budget hotel aggregator OYO Rooms has added new geographies and expanded its presence in North-East. They are now offering OYO Rooms across popular tourist destinations in the region like Darjeeling…
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Alex Lopoukhine shares how Viator cracked the activity code
Tours and activities are challenging to distribute and very few seem to have cracked the activity code. Fragmented market and the lack of standardisation further add to the challenges in…
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ixigo’s updated Chrome extension ‘inspire’ is yet another star on their bandwagon
ixigo launched its very own chrome extension called ixigo inspire. This lets the traveller scroll through inspiring places and instantly compares deals online across various travel sites. The extension opens…
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OMitra tries to take the boredom out of train travel
While we have seen huge technological developments in air transport, the train transport has continued to be the same in India for quite a while. This holds especially true in…
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Here is what BMW plans for the future of transportation
BMW has been among the first movers when it comes to autonomous cars. They have showcased that they are capable of being competitive in the race for driverless cars by…
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The All-in-one Skymate drone makes adventure photography cakewalk
Adventure and photography go hand in hand. Like always. The millennium is looking at some greatest trends roll out in an anticipation that it will dazzle the hell out of…
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Track Me Mobi: A safety app for women travelling at night
A Bengaluru-based tech firm Software Technology Parks of India has rolled out a safety app for women who specifically travel at night. The app Track Me Mobi is aimed at…
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Here are the problems cab hailing companies need to address
We love how technology is simplifying travel for us and are really amazed at how in a very short time, cab hailing companies have registered strong growth all over the…
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Holidify co-founder quits, are we going to hear more such stories as funding dries up in travel?
Over the past few months, the startup ecosystem has witnessed a slowdown in funding and the story is being replicated in travel industry as well. A significant mismatch between the…
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Hyperloop One puts traditional transportation to shame in its first successful propulsion test in Nevada
It is being called the ‘Concorde of modern commute’. When Elon Musk first conceived the idea of shooting people through tubes at a whopping speed of 700 miles per hours,…
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Kerala Tourism is leveraging Instagram accounts to play an interesting game
It’s interesting how social media has transformed the art of story-telling. It’s no more mundane and repetitive. There have been instances where DMOs have leveraged the reach of social media…
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Travel brands, Facebook has got new cuisines for you
With over 1 Billion daily users on the platform, Facebook is the go-to platform for many travel brands and the social platform has now decided to improve its ad offerings…
Akshay Sharma
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