Cleartrip

Cleartrip.com

Type	Private
Industry	Online Travel Company
Founded	2000
Founder	Stuart Crighton (Founder & CEO) and Hrush Bhatt (Founder & Director - Product & Strategy)
Headquarters	India
Products	Booking Flights, Hotels, Resorts, Holidays, Buses, Trains, Weekend Getaways & Activities
Website	cleartrip.com

Headquartered in Mumbai, India, Cleartrip Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian online travel company providing online booking services for flights and train tickets, hotel reservations, and domestic and international holiday packages. It is amongst the top Online Travel agencies in India. Apart from India, Cleartrip is also featured as a leading Online Travel Agency in the Gulf Region.

History and Growth

Cleartrip was founded by Mathhew Spacie, Hrush Bhatt & Stuart Crighton in 2006. Following the slogan –“Making Travel Simple”, it provides easy booking to travellers along with useful travel tips through their website with an objective to provide simple travel solutions for customers. In May 2010, Cleartrip launched its first overseas venture^[1] in the UAE. In May 2012, it started services^[2] to the Gulf nations of Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia.

In August 2014, Cleartrip established booking contracts with over 15,000 hotels across the globe, and reported approximately 15,000 air transactions and 2,000 hotel bookings on its portal.

Products and Services

Along with the full-service web portal, Cleartrip also operates Cleartrip for Business,^[3] an online corporate travel management tool; Agent Box,^[4] a travel tool for India's large agency base; and Cleartrip Mobile,^[5] a travel booking app for mobile devices.

Flight and Retail Booking

Cleartrip offers services of searching and booking tickets for both one-way and roundtrip flights across all major domestic and international airlines. In addition, train reservation services for all major trains in India are available, wherein users are able to search for the seat availability across all classes and connect Cleartrip and IRCTC accounts. The portal assists users to search for trains between stations, retrieve train schedules, check PNR statues, and verify Waiting List or RAC reservation.

Hotel Reservation

Cleartrip offers an option to book from numerous hotels around the globe, with options of same-day and next-day check-ins. Cleartrip also offers the Pay@Hotel feature, wherein users can book their room with Cleartrip and pay the full amount directly at the hotel.

Hotel Packages

Cleartrip offers a range of holiday packages comprising flight-and-hotel combination deals for destinations around the world.

Cleartrip Mobile

Cleartrip Mobile is company’s flagship app offering all the features of Cleartrip's full-service portal for mobile devices. Users can search for information; book seats aboard flights, trains and buses; and make hotel reservations through this app. Cleartrip Mobile is available for Apple, Android, and Symbian devices.

Cleartrip for Business

Cleartrip offers travel booking services to 2,000 small and medium corporate enterprises, through Cleartrip for Business, wherein users can book flight, trains, and hotels.

AgentBox

AgentBox is an online product for travel agents, powered by Cleartrip, which allows travel agents and tour companies to book tickets and receive commissions. AgentBox offers an inventory of domestic and international flights as well as hotels to over 3,000 registered travel agents across India.

Cleartrip Special Features

• Fare Alerts, Cleartrip's real-time airfare tracker
• Expressway,^[6] which enables users to make one-touch bookings
• Passbook support,^[7] which enables paperless ticket booking
• Quickeys,^[8] last-minute deals on hotel booking
• Waytogo,^[9] a journey planner featuring air, rail, coach, ferry and self-driven options
• Collections,^[10] a Curated list of destinations, activities, travel themes and hotels
• Pay@Hotel,^[11] which allows users to book their room with Cleartrip and pay the full amount directly at the hotel
• Weekend getaways,^[12] which lets users search for getaways from the city of origin based on drive time or destination; and select a hotel and make a room reservation
• Online Amendments, which allows users to modify their itineraries online

Awards and recognition

Year	Name of the Award	Awarded By	Ref(s)
2014	Editor's Pick	Apple App Store	[13]
2013	Product of the Year - Travel Category	Nielsen survey	[14]
2013	Best App - Travel & Hospitality	The Mobies, UAE	[15]
2011	Mobile Mover of the Year	WITovation Awards, Singapore	[16]
2010	India’s Favourite Travel Website	Readers’ India Travel Awards - Condé Nast Travel Awards	[17]
2010	Top eCommerce Websites in India	The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)	[18]
2010	Most Innovative Companies in Asia	Red Herring Top 100 Asia	[19]
2008	Google of Travel Sites	PC World Web Awards	[20]
2007	Excellence in Open Source Technologies Implementation	Skoch Consultancy Services and Red Hat	[21]
2006	India’s Best Travel Website	PC World’s Best Indian Websites Awards	[22]

Venture Funding

• Concur^[23] Technologies Inc. holds 40% stake in Cleartrip with a strategic investment of $40 million
• Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
• Sherpalo Ventures
• DAG Ventures
• Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Leadership Team

• Stuart Crighton – Founder and Chief Executive Officer
• Hrush Bhatt - Founder & Director, Product and Strategy
• Samyukth Sridharan^[24] – President and Chief Operating Officer
• Amit Taneja - Chief Revenue Officer
• Subramanya Sharma – Chief Marketing Officer

Board of Directors

• Sandeep Murthy - Chairman, Cleartrip
• Stuart Crighton- Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Cleartrip
• Avnish Bajaj
• Mohanjit Jolly
• Sridar Iyengar
• S.Steven Singh
• John Torrey

See also

• Tripoto
• Cleartrip’s Analysis on travel buying behaviour across devices - Tnooz^[25]
• Discounts & Flash Sales: Analysis and Impact - Times of India^[26]
• Weekend Getaways Launch - Hindustan Times^[27]
• Big Data Analytics - MINT^[28]
• Cleartrip launches Online Amendments - India Digital Review^[29]
• Cleartrip launches Collections - NDTV^[30]
• Cleartrip has a radically different take on M&A -MINT

References

1. "Cleartrip launches UAE operations"
2. Fernz, Charmaine. "Cleartrip to invest significantly and expand localized operations in the GCC". Travel Daily Media.
3. "Cleartrip targets 2000 corporates"
4. "Cleartrip registered more than 3000 agents in India"
5. "Cleartrip launches mobile travel solution"
6. Pahwa, Nikhil. "Cleartrip Expressway: 1-Click Bookings, But Not 1-Click Checkout". www.indiatourismreview.com.
7. Iyer, KS Sandhya. "Cleartrip brings air, rail and bus tickets to Apple's Passbook". http://gadgets.ndtv.com/. External link in |website= (help)
8. Rai, Aman. "Cleartrip Launches Last Minute Hotel Booking Service, Quickeys". http://www.medianama.com. External link in |website= (help)
9. "Cleartrip launches Waytogo, a Very Cool Multi-Mode Route Finding and Booking Tool". http://www.nextbigwhat.com. NextBigWhat. External link in |website= (help)
10. SN, Vikas. "Cleartrip & Condé Nast Traveler Launch Curated Holiday Guides". http://www.medianama.com. External link in |website= (help)
11. Balanarayan, NT. "Cleartrip Launches Pay@Hotel; CoD Equivalent For Hotels?". http://www.medianama.com. External link in |website= (help)
12. Rai, Anand. "Cleartrip expands its hotels product with the launch of Weekend Getaways service, what’s on offer?". http://techcircle.vccircle.com. External link in |website= (help)
13. Editor's Pick App Store by Apple App Store
14. Product of the Year - Travel Category by Neilson Survey
15. Best App for Travel and Hospitality at the Mobies 2013, UAE
16. Mobile Mover of the Year at WITovation Awards, Singapore
17. India's Favourite Travel Website by Reader's india Travel Awards
18. Top eCommerce Websites in India by The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)
19. Most Innovative Companies in Asia by Red Herring Top 100 Asia
20. Google Travel Sites at PC World Web Awards 2008
21. Excellence in Open Source Technologies Implementation by Skoch Consultancy Services and Red Hat
22. India's Best Travel Website at PC World's Best Website Awards
23. "Concur increases India push with $40M stake in online travel agency Cleartrip". http://www.tnooz.com. External link in |website= (help)
24. Saxena, Anupam. "Samyukth Sridharan Joins Cleartrip As President & COO". http://www.medianama.com. External link in |website= (help)
25. "Travel bookings via mobile and tablet eating into desktop share in India". http://www.tnooz.com. External link in |website= (help)
26. "Discount fare offers revive domestic air travel market". http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com. External link in |website= (help)
27. "Fliers Make Impromptu Trip with Flash Sales". http://myimpact.impactmeasurement.co.in/. External link in |website= (help)
28. Sanjai, P.R. "How Big Data helps customize your travel". http://www.livemint.com/. External link in |website= (help)
29. "ClearTrip starts online rescheduling of flights; waives off amendment fee". http://www.indiadigitalreview.com. External link in |website= (help)
30. "Cleartrip launches visually-appealing travel guides, Collections". http://gadgets.ndtv.com. External link in |website= (help)

External links

• Official website