Flipkart is said to be one of the biggest online shopping apps where online transactions can be done in an easy way as well as cash on delivery also. Whereas Make My Trip deals with the booking of tickets for railway, flights, buses. A new deal has been signed up by Flipkart to tie up with Make My Trip to increase their business.
Flipkart enters the online space of travel
Flipkart is mostly known for selling gods whether it may be clothes, electronic items, home and kitchen appliances etc. Flipkart is said to be the E-commerce market leader who recently entered into a partnership with Make My Trip, the online ticket, and traveling platform. More commonly it can be said that the Flipkart users can easily leverage the service of Make my trip on the platform of Flipkart.
Other online services which include the services which have been offered by Goibibo, Redbus and other platforms that are owned by Make My Trip will be accessible through Flipkart because of the tie-up.
According to the press release
According to the press release, starting off the new partnership of Flipkart and MakeMy Trip will be the roll-out of the bookings of the domestic flight bookings in the next upcoming booking which may be followed by the booking of bus, hotel and holidays. There are almost 100 million users who have registered and downloaded the app. This can now be leveraged by Make My Trip. A substantial portion of the revenue of the Make My Trip is coming from the Indian unit that is Make My Trip (India) Private Limited.
Other subsidiaries include UAE, Singapore contribute small revenue towards revenues of parent firms. It also executes travel insurance apart from bus tickets, rail tickets, airplane tickets and holiday bookings.
Early incident performed by Snapdeal
A similar incident was performed by Snapdeal also that has they included booking of rail and airplane tickets but they fail to attain any success. However, Flipkart can gain success if this is implemented in a better way. Travel bookings will be a seamless experience if this partnership is implemented in a good manner.
We can hope that this tie-up of Flipkart along with Make My Trip will benefit their customers.
