Wednesday, April 9, 2008
iXiGo Launches Hotel Search
iXiGO.com which recently got funded has launched hotel search. Hotels has been a domain which first came into focus when travelguru shifted its focus from being a flight booking engine to a hotel booking engine. It was only natural for iXiGo which was primarily a search engine for flights to include hotels sooner or later. I also expect bus and rail to be added soon as that would complete the term travel search engine which it claims to be.
Currently iXiGO’s hotel search can search through 4500 hotels in 320 Indian cities. iXiGO’s hotel search provides users with information on budget accommodation across hostels, guest-houses, serviced apartments and villas.
As iXiGo is just a search engine it does not provide booking but instead redirects to 30 national and international hotel booking websites.
Mr. Aloke Bajpai, Founder & CEO of iXiGO said, “We are bringing our disruptive flight search model to hotel bookings by allowing instant real-time search across hotel booking sites. By comparing aggregators like Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, Desiya and some exclusive international content partners such as HotelsCombined, we hope to strategically integrate with booking sites of independent hotels and hotel chains in the future, to better manage their yields and lower their internet distribution costs”.
iXiGo is my favourite search engine when it comes to searching for flights but the biggest issue that I see is that people will search and then book from the original site. Thats exactly what I do. I search from iXiGo and then go to the official site instead of clicking the link from iXiGo. Dont ask me why! Its only because I want to recheck if there is any lower prices.
I think the same would be the case with hotels. What iXiGo needs to figure out is a monetization strategy that doesn’t get affected by such habits.
IXIGo.com is a travel search engine offers cheap flights and cheap hotels booking in India.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
iXiGO.com leading the way: NASSCOM
03 April 2008,
iXiGO was recognised as one of India’s top six online companies in India at the Proto.in and chosen by Red Herring as one of the finalists for the Red Herring 100 Global Awards.
INDIA’S NATIONAL Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) choses iXiGO.com, India’s leading travel search engine, among India’s most innovative technology companies ‘100 IT Innovators 2007’. This is a showcase list of India’s large, medium and small organisations that have made innovation an important part of their growth strategies. NASSCOM recognises such companies annually, in its 100 Innovators list as a part of its ongoing efforts, to promote product research and development that will help India move up the value-chain from services to products.
iXiGO.com, a travel search engine launched in June 2007, is one of the very few ’startup’ innovators and certainly the youngest company on the list, which includes leading established names in the Indian and International Information technology (IT) industry, including Infosys Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro Technologies, Reliance Communications, and Media Labs Asia among others. The only other online companies in the list are BharatMatrimony, a leading online matrimony classifieds site and MakeMyTrip.com, India’s largest online travel agency.
iXiGO.com’s unique market approach, product usability, and passionate management team have been key contributors to its path-breaking success. “At iXiGO.com, our mandate is to innovate in every aspect of the product, be it design, speed, accuracy, transparency or overall user experience. We have consistently set new benchmarks on all these fronts, not just in India, but globally. We believe that Innovation and India can be synonyms”, said Rajnish Kumar, Co-founder and Vice President, Technology. Rajnish is an IIT Kanpur graduate who came back to India with his ex-colleagues to launch iXiGO from their shared apartment’s living room in Gurgaon.
“We are changing the rules of the game. In what was considered a competitive online travel vertical, our disruptive business model has created new market space and created a blue ocean, where we are able to deliver more value to both our suppliers (airlines) and users”, said Aloke, Founder-CEO, an INSEAD MBA, IIT Kanpur alumni and avid world traveller.
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Unlike most travel portals that just do bookings, iXiGO is an online and mobile travel search engine that strives to provide the most comprehensive and transparent search platform for comparing travel information, fares & deals from multiple airlines, hotels, buses, taxi providers, tours & activities providers in India.
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iXiGO searches directly on airline websites, hotel websites, online travel agencies and tour operators to find up-do-date, real-time information on deals, prices and availability. It thus allows consumers to retain a direct relationship with airlines, hotels & travel websites, with a superfast, accurate & personalizable search experience.
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