Travel portals surfing high tides in India

Gone are the days when one had to make several annoying phone calls to an airline company or travel agent to get that one air ticket from Bangalore to Mumbai. Now through online travel portals, within minutes you can book your ticket on your favourite airline and hotel accommodation, all at a surprisingly low cost.

Booking travel tickets and hotels online is not only a convenient option, but an attractive choice with all the goodies that come along with it today. If you are booking tickets through an Online Travel Agent (OTA) like Cleartrip.com you might get a Motorola L6 mobile phone worth Rs 6,020 absolutely free! You can also get lucky by using the site ezeego1.com, where if you book an air ticket you might get the second one free, through their ‘Ticket pe, Ticket offer.’ Or look at the offer of MakeMyTrip: if you make hotel reservations on the MakeMyTrip.com site you can get cash back for your return train journey. Also while planning a weekend getaway on yet another site, you might land up with a deal that gives you 40 per cent cash back for well-known destinations. While surfing online travel sites you can get entangled through a plethora of holiday packages which include five star hotels, excursions like scuba diving, para-sailing, weekend treks, cruises; all available at your fingertips.



Deccan Herald, India