Online Travel Industry in India 2010

Oct. 24, 2010 - PRLog -- India is the most dynamic and fast growing online travel market in the APAC region.  Online travel contributes 70% of all e-commerce activities globally. Private equity players have made huge investments in the online travel agency (OTA) segment in the past two years.

The report begins with the overview of the online travel market, including market size, growth and market share of key segments. It provides an overview of the industry supply chain and business model of online travel agencies. An analysis of drivers explain factors contributing to the growth of online travel market including proliferation of internet, rising income, Indian railways online portal, growth in low-cost carriers, secure payment mechanisms and rise of medical tourism. The key challenges discussed are low margins, high operating costs, poor internet and credit card penetration, and limited inventories and lack of awareness.

The key trends identified include online railway bookings becoming the preferred segment in online travel, growing emergence of corporate travel packages, growth in offline counters, emerging travel information portals backed by OTAs, rising international travel, booming religious tourism, emerging travel information portals, and OTAs serving as a preferred search tool for checking fares and ticket availability.

Competitive landscape identifies the major players and provides details of their revenues, market share and brief business description including financials. The report also covers the details of the private equity investments and other key developments in the industry.



Table of Contents
Page 1: Executive Summary  
Market Overview
Page 2: Online Travel-Market Size & Growth (2008-2011e), Market Share by Channel and Online Travel Penetration Level
Page 3: Industry structure-Market segments, Market Share by Segment
Business Model
Page 4: Supply Chain
Page 5: Business Model
Page 6-7: Incentives Provided to Consumers  
Drivers & Challenges
Page 8: Summary
Page 9-13: Drivers
Page 14-15: Challenges
Trends
Page 16: Summary
Page 17-21: Trends  
Competition
Page 22: Summary-Segmentation of Players
Page 23: Competition-OTA Market Share, GDS Market Share
Page 24: OTA segments-Daily Sales of Players Over Different Platforms, Average Minutes Spent per Visitor
Page 25: OTA Penetration and Popularity segment-wise and gross booking split across players
Page 26-32: OTA Players in the Market
Page 33-34: Meta Search Engines
Page 35-36: GDS Players in the Market
PE Investments
Page 37: Private Equity investments in Online Travel Industry
Key Developments
Page 38: Key developments

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