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Travelyaari.com is an Indian bus booking company headquartered at Bangalore, India.[5] With a network of over 3,500 bus operators[6] on its website and 150,000 bus options per day on 45,000 routes, it has served over 150 million bus travelers[6][7] till date.[2][3] It books 150,000-200,000 bus tickets daily through Mantis Technologies platform.[6] It also enables 8,000-9,000 offline travel outlets to help them book bus tickets.[6]
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Type of site | Private |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | April 2008 |
| Headquarters | Bengaluru[1][2][3], |
| Area served | India |
| Founder(s) | Aurvind Lama, Parthasarthi Sinha, and Prateek Nigam.[4] |
| Industry | Travel services |
| Products | Bus booking, Travel Agent booking, Bus ERP |
| URL | travelyaari |
| Current status | Active |
About edit
Travelyaari.com is the flagship brand of Mantis Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Mantis, through its wide range of online products (i.e. Travelyaari, BusCRS.com, IamGDS.com, BusTicketBooking API) has drastically shifted the entire bus industry in India to the Internet.[8][9] Thus, making the industry more accessible, organised, transparent, efficient and collaborative. Travelyaari.com also has a tours section which offers handpicked travel packages at affordable prices.
Travelyaari is an Indian online bus ticketing website with its offices in Bangalore and other major cities like Ahmedabad, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, and Chandigarh.
It claims to have 1.54 million monthly visits as per Similarweb.[10][11] and expects a turnover of about $200–250 million for the financial year ending March 2018.[7][2]
Travelyaari has features in their online booking system that maintain the safety of single women passengers. It also provides insurance that provides bus travelers protection against last minute cancellations and accidents.[12][6]
History edit
Travelyaari.com started operations in year 20 April 2007[13] by IIM Ahmedabad Graduates and industry professionals,[14] Parthasarthi Sinha, Aurvind Lama and Prateek Nigam.[4]
Mantis Technologies, Travelyaari's parent company, also develops a global distribution systems for bus operators to manage their inventories and operations.
References edit
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- ^ Pai, Vivek (August 11, 2016). "Travelyaari secures $7 million from existing investors". Medianama. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
- ^ a b c d e Das, Mamuni (2017-01-24). "Travelyaari offers cashless ticket, food bookings for bus travellers". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
- ^ a b "2017 will be an acid test for travel tech startups: Travelyaari's Lama". Techcircle.in - India startups, internet, mobile, e-commerce, software, online businesses, technology, venture capital, angel, seed funding. 2017-01-09. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
- ^ Pradeesh Chandran (December 1, 2015). "Travelyaari may close Rs.50 crore deal this month". The Hindu. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ^ Avik Das (November 30, 2015). "FLYING-START-Its been a fascinating journey". Times of India. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
- ^ "travelyaari.com Traffic Statistics". SimilarWeb. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
- ^ Venkatesh Ganesh (March 15, 2012). "No more missing the bus". The Hindu. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
- ^ "TYSURE is Travelyaari's reliability assured service. A Promise of Assured Travel". Travelyaari. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
- ^ "MANTIS TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED - Company, directors and contact details | Zauba Corp". www.zaubacorp.com. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
- ^ ET Bureau (Nov 12, 2012). "How three IIM-A graduates solved the problem of booking bus tickets". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2013-03-11.