siliconindia | | August 20214Not so long ago, we can recall having to reach the rail-way station to reserve seats or berths for our travel. Even with or without the improvement that India wit-nessed in its average income per household, booking fl ight tickets involved us having to visit the airport on the day of travel. A couple of years, there were travel agencies that enjoyed the limelight. It was only until the internet era was at its peak that we were introduced to online ticket booking. The web has revolutionized the way we travel, allowing consumers to search, buy and share trips at the touch of a button. The introduction of the World Wide Web not only fundamentally changed the travel experience, but also turned an entire industry on its head as new brands emerged to take advantage of it, while many existing players were left strug-gling to keep-up with a blistering rate of changeE-Tourism started with the fi rst automated airline computer reservation systems (CRS) implemented on mainframes. With the global spread of data transmission networks, they evolved to global distribution systems (GDS), which serve as B2B touristic distribution backbones until today. The seamless integration of heterogeneous data networks into the Internet and the invention of the World Wide Web as a distributed multimedia application plat-form led to the development of comfortable Internet/web booking engines. They enabled easy-to-use browser-based online booking as a self-service for customers and new forms of B2C travel dis-tribution. In a world full of makemytrip and goibibo, we introduce you to some of the most impactful online ticket booking service providers who have made a stir in the Indian scenario. These vendors have innovated and curated a unique set of value add services that will further streamline your ticket booking experience. Do let us know what you thinkEmmanuel Christi DasEditoreditor@siliconindia.comWeb Away Your Way to Destination Vol 09 · Issue 10 - 03 · August 2021 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Emmanuel Christi Das Editorial Team Aveek Pal Chaudhuri Avinash Roy Mandvi Singh VP - Sales & Marketing Virupakshi Pattar GM - Sales & Marketing Rohit Kumar Advertising Managers Editorial queries editor@siliconindia.com To subscribe Visit https://www.siliconindia.com/subscribe/ or send email to subscription@siliconindia.com Cover price is Rs.150 per issue. Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017. Editor Alok ChaturvediCopyright © 2020 SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.advertise@siliconindia.comVisualisers Suanya Chakraborty Group Art DirectorAshok KumarNoidaAshu Sethi Garima Anand Circulation Manager Magendran PerumalAnupreethi Danila.D Chander Thyagaraj Felisha Rita Correspondents Sambit Satpathy Subhadarshani MohantyEditorial
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