Articles tagged “india”

A great overview of the online travel sector in India, with lots of innovation yet to come as large swathes of Indian population are new and yet to come online, most of them using mobile.

In addition to sparking change on the ground, the U.S. government's latest initiative will also give travelers another safety risk to consider before booking an overseas trip.

The airline has yet to reveal its cabin interiors selections, but Skift has requested a peek. Based on the extensive branding effort we’ve seen so far, we expect very good things.

India’s economic rise will introduce a new generation of middle class tourists to overseas travel. The country’s GDP has grown to 5.4% this year and is expected to reach 6.7%…

Give your Starbucks jokes a pause, this one in New Delhi is worth going to, if only to marvel at the difference between this store and the best of them in NYC. Add to that the hot, humid and crowded Indian surroundings in August, and the refuge that this very well designed Starbucks offers. This is worth a tourist-gawking trip.

There you go, problem solved. You feel safer now?

If you think hotel industry is fragmented here, try India, where it is hard to tell the difference between real estate and hotel industry. Now, as airlines and rail are being booked at volume online in India, hotels are coming into the mix of online travel.

This being India, the network will likely be overwhelmed by usage, primarily mobile device usage. But then, how different would that crawl be from Amtrak or Bolt Bus wi-fi here?

Contrast and comparison is a particularly effective technique for travel ads, because it highlights what makes each culture or company unique -- the ultimate goal of any good campaign.

AirAsia will come in with a big splash, but will have to sustain the cost structure long term and learn from past failures of players before them.