MakeMyTrip.com gets big on Bangalore

Bangalore, June 12 (UNI) MakeMyTrip.com, India's top online travel company today launched its regional office in Bangalore.

The offline presence complements the company's online offerings, to provide customers in Bangalore with greater flexibility and choice in buying international and domestic holidays.

This launch was part of the company's broader strategy to maintain market leadership by strengthening its presence in existing markets, expanding to newer markets, and introducing new and varied customer touch-points to purchase travel anytime and anywhere.

Commenting on the launch Deep Kalra, Founder&CEO, said, "The Bangalore market presents a huge opportunity to travel solutions providers. It has always had a strong corporate travel opportunity." Take My Trip set up its India operations in September 2005 after four years of profitable operations in the US to India travel market. The India operation was launched to address the needs of the growing travel community in the country, and today Make My Trip sells over 5000 flight tickets, 1000 hotel room nights and more than 50 holiday packages every day.

The recently launched advanced hotel search engine is another first as it allows for one-click search to a database of over 2500 hotels in over 300 locations. The new enhanced Hotel 2.0 search engine provides for easy search for any information related to hotels.

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