JANUARY 20194The Indian travel market is growing at a quite squandering pace. With the expanding economic scenario, people now have access to greater disposable incomes, greater awareness because of the internet and social media, and also have increased air connectivity both within India and from India. Consumers are now more inclined towards online travel booking. According to industry reports, the Indian travel industry is set to grow from $33 billion in 2015 to $56 billion by 2020. To address the increasing number of Indians travelling, numerous startups have emerged to meet their demands. The Indian startup sector is buoyant as entrepreneurs are racing to provide services for the country's online population.Indians traditionally used to travel with their families. There has been a massive change in this trend as young solo professionals are taking a greater number of vacations every year to places that are off-the-beaten-track. And these youth are extremely tech-savvy and heavily use apps and the internet to plan their trips as opposed to word-of-mouth recommendation. There is a fleet of travel startups seen in the market currently steering the industry forward with their innovative approach and contemporarily tailored solutions. These are the startups that take care of curating travel lists, making travel arrangements, arranging the foreign exchange, and handling the back-operations of travel. In fact, they have been perceived spending massive budgets on marketing and focusing on branding and customer service.We have listed "10 Best Startups in Travel" in this edition. Realizing the market potential that such a vast and populous country with incredible travel vistas to boot can offer, these prominent travel startups have jumped into the fray to emerge as the most promising in a market untapped. As travel habits get more sophisticated, it would be interesting to see a large number of dedicated entrepreneurs and venture capitalists devising solutions which will help them tap into this growing chunk of the market.Do let us know your thoughtsNandini MukherjeeManaging EditorStartups are Revolutionizing the Travel Industry EDITOR'S NOTEsiliconindia Vol 4 · Issue 5 - 7 · January 18, 2019 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Nandini Mukherjee Editorial Team Amit Raja Naik Anitha T. Hridkamal Roy Lakshmi G Sales & Marketing Garima Anand Shubham Rastogi Editorial Queries editor@startupcity.com To subscribe Visit www.siliconindiamagazine.com/subscribe Cover price is ` 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 © 2019 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.sales@startupcity.comGroup Art Director Ashok KumarCirculation Manager Magendran PerumalVisualisers Mohana Krishnan Vimalraj MSr. Manager Sales & Marketing Amrit Singh
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