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Cleartrip

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Type	Private
Founded	2006
Headquarters	Cleartrip, Ground Floor, Sitaram Mill Compound, , Delisle Road, N.M.Joshi Marg, Lower Parel Mumbai, India
Key people	Sandeep Murthy, Stuart Crighton, Hrush Bhatt, PKX Thomas
Industry	Travel & Tourism
Products	train tickets, airline tickets,Online hotel reservations & and various kinds of domestic and International holiday packages.
Website	Cleartrip

Cleartrip is an Indian company that permits online booking of flight tickets and hotels. The company's products include search and booking for domestic and International flights, search and booking for over 5,500 domestic hotels and 109,000 international hotels, Railway Tickets, holiday packages, insurance and mobile services for travel, and global destination guides.

History

• In 2006 On 4 July 2006, Cleartrip.com was launched.

• In 2007, the company launched an SMS based ticketing service which allowed users to book their tickets using mobile phones.^[1]

• In 2008, the company partnered with Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation to include rail bookings.^[2]

• In 2009 Cleartrip Calendar launched.^[3]

Awards

• Cleartrip.com was awarded the India’s best travel website by PC World’s Best Indian Websites awards 2006 and Cleartrip.com won the award again in 2007.^[4]

• The PC World Web Awards 2008 jury has termed it ‘Google of Travel Sites’ since it serves its purpose for customers who are looking for just information and were not interested in any frills.

• Cleartrip.com was rated the most user friendly travel website by a consumer research that was conducted by JuxtConsult in 2007.

• Cleartrip.com was awarded the excellence in Open Source Technologies Implementation by Skoch Consultancy Services and Red Hat in 2007.

See also

• Airline tickets
• Online hotel reservations

References

External links

• Official website of Cleartrip
• Cleartrip On Twitter