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The “Greatest Of All Trips,” a unique, out of the box IP that was brought to life with two of the most renowned brands! EaseMyTrip.com and Yas Island, Abu Dhabi – the leading leisure and entertainment destination in the Middle East region are teaming up to deliver an unparalleled travel experience. This innovative campaign features 30 of India’s top content creators engaging in thrilling challenges across Yas Island’s award-winning theme parks. These creators explore the destination’s exceptional attractions, while creating compelling content and facing challenges to inspire Indian travellers to explore the destination as a memorable experience. By combining EaseMyTrip’s expertise in travel with Yas Island’s premier offerings, this partnership presents exclusive packages designed to elevate the Yas Island adventure. Designed to offer an unforgettable journey blending excitement with adventure, the campaign is set to redefine destination marketing! The challenges undertaken by the creators will be presented in an engaging episodic series on the YouTube page of Yas Island, which will inherently build audience interest, excitement and engagement over time. Each episode will showcase the participants’ originality, skills, and experiences as they navigate through Yas Island’s thrilling attractions, one activity at a time. The series will end with crowning one ultimate winner who would showcase exceptional content creation abilities, creativity, talent, problem solving skills and would best capture the essence of Yas Island’s world-class offerings. Adding star power to the campaign is celebrity host Sonu Sood, an acclaimed actor known for his significant contributions to Indian cinema and charitable efforts. Truly matching the superhero identity, his participation adds considerable prestige and appeal, enhancing the campaign’s reach and impact among Indian audiences. The series invites viewers on an exhilarating adventure through …

At Travel M!CE and Corporate Show, Rikant Pittie, Co-Founder, EaseMyTrip.com, said, “We have seen 15% increase in our business when we started selling flights, hotels and accommodation together, so bundle products should be recommended for business augmentation.”

Travel M!CE & Corporate Show at Novotel Jaipur Convention Centre saw over 1600 meetings with top corporate buyers from across the country. At the event, Rikant Pittie, Co-Founder, EaseMyTrip.com, recommended that bundle products should be offered to corporates to boost business.

EaseMyTrip.com, one of India’s largest online travel tech platforms, has launched its latest offering, EasyDarshan (http://www.easydarshan.com/). This dedicated platform has been meticulously crafted to cater to the spiritual needs of travellers by providing comprehensive pilgrimage packages across India. EasyDarshan offers an array of specially curated divine packages, ensuring devotees can focus solely on their spiritual journey and are free from the hassle of logistics and planning. The platform offers diverse packages and covers a wide spectrum of revered pilgrimage sites across the country, from the serene Himalayan shrines to the tranquil temples of the South. The packages offered to the customers are inclusive of transportation, accommodation, guided tours and special pujas. Prioritising safety and sanitation measures, the platform will ensure travellers have convenient, safe and peaceful spiritual tours. Elated to announce, Mr. Nishant Pitti, CEO & Co-Founder, EaseMyTrip, said, “India is known as the land of spirituality and is home to beautifully carved temples, peaceful Gurudwaras, majestic churches and opulent mosques. This is why spiritual tourism holds a special place in the hearts of Indians, and people are now keen to visit vibrant religious and spiritual destinations more than ever before. We were aware this was an untapped territory and had immense potential for growth. This prompted us to launch EasyDarshan. With this platform, our vision is to bridge the gap between devotion and convenience and offer seamless, convenient and safe pilgrimage experiences that resonate with our customers’ spiritual aspirations.”    

EaseMyTrip.com is set to acquire 51 per cent of the aggregate paid-up share capital of each of the three prominent travel companies incorporated in India, to solidify its position as a major player in the travel and tourism industry. The company proposes to acquire includes – Guideline Travels Holidays India Private Limited, Mumbai, TripShope Travel Technologies Private Limited, Jammu and Kashmir and Dook Travels Private Limited, New Delhi. The consideration for the proposed acquisition will be paid by EaseMyTrip by way of issuance of its equity shares to the selling shareholders of the respective target companies on a preferential basis. Nishant Pitti, Co-Founder of EaseMyTrip, “These three companies have a strong track record and a wealth of experience in their respective areas. Together, with these remarkable travel companies, we extend and embrace to a diverse spectrum of exceptional services catering to larger markets. Together, we are poised to ignite the wanderlust of countless explorers, crafting unforgettable journeys that resonate with every soul and paint the world with the colors of adventure and discovery.’’ Guideline Travels Holidays India Private Limited, Mumbai: Guideline Travels, a highly reputed travel company that excels in both B2C and B2B circuits. The company boasts an extensive product portfolio international group tours, bespoke FIT ventures, fixed departures and MICE movements and has its major business line in cruises. “Being pioneers at cruise selling, we sought an aggressive online selling platform for cruise products around the world. Our partnership with EaseMyTrip gives us a big thrust to bring a bouquet of cruise products to our B2B as well B2C clients. Partnership with EaseMyTrip opens up our horizons and will allow us to bring to fruition our vision hence …

EaseMyTrip makes second acquisition, Spree Hospitality. Prashant Pitti- Co-Founder, EaseMyTrip said, “There is a synergy between EaseMyTrip and Spree Hospitality where we leverage the asset-light model to build a lean and efficient infrastructure. With this acquisition, EaseMyTrip is well-positioned to unlock the market potential of a recovering hospitality sector and quickly scale up the business to meet the evolving needs of the modern traveller”.

EaseMyTrip will be entering into a non-binding agreement offer with Traviate Online Private Limited for the acquisition of the business. This will be the first-ever acquisition by EaseMyTrip that will add a new revenue stream and fast track its expansion in the B2B hotel and holiday space. The consummation of the proposed transaction is expected in 3 months, subject to finalisation of definitive agreements, customary closing conditions and other necessary approvals, as may be required.

In its ongoing effort to strengthen the hospitality and tourism industry, especially in these times of a pandemic, Ministry of Tourism has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with Cleartrip and EaseMyTrip. The tourism ministry says that more such MoUs will follow in the near future.

Travelport has announced that it had won a competitive tender process undertaken by Air India for the sole provision of distribution of its domestic flight content. The contract awarded to Travelport will begin to come into effect from November 2018 and be fully implemented by the end of 2019. The agreement confirms Air India’s continued deployment of Travelport Rich Content and Branding, now used by over 270 airlines. This displays airlines’ graphical content, their fares families and a full range of ancillary products. Travelport has seen a rapid expansion in India in recent years following the acquisition of business from the largest online travel agencies like MakeMyTrip, Ibibo, Yatra, EaseMyTrip and ClearTrip as well as working with the major corporate travel agencies and new entrants to the travel sector such as Paytm. Pradeep Singh Kharola, Chairman and Managing Director, Air India, said, “Air India is pleased to award this important contract to Travelport. In written submissions and in discussion with their team, the company demonstrated a clear understanding of our needs and displayed impressive technological and financial capability. As we make the switch to Travelport, we hope to be able to deliver even better value for money and a superior distribution to our customers in India and abroad.” Gordon Wilson, President and CEO, Travelport, commented, “Travelport is delighted to have been selected by Air India to provide these services. It is another welcome endorsement of our technology and our services in India. We look forward to implementing the agreement and delivering a world-class service to the airline.”