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What are OTAs (Online Travel Agents) ? Name Of Various OTAs

 What are different OTAs ? Name Of Various OTAs 

As mentioned in our previous article, there are lots of OTAs in the travel industry. Here we will learn about some of the popular OTAs.

1. Booking.com - Booking.com is a worldwide popular OTAs which is headquartered in Netherlands. They have a very smooth Hotel Booking interface.


2. Expedia - Expedia is an international and a very popular OTA. They have mostly higher-end hotels on their platform which means Expedia usually does not keep budget properties on their platform.


3. MakeMyTrip.com - MakeMyTrip.com is the most popular OTA in India. It had budget to higher-end, all kinds of hotels listed on theit platform. Customers can even Book travel packages using MakeMyTrip.


4. Goibibo - Just like MakeMyTrip, Goibibo also has a big customer base and vast presence pan India. Goibibo also has huge range of hotels on their platform.


5. HappyEasyGo - HappyEasyGo is a new entrant in the travel industry which provides facilities like Hotel booking and flight booking to customers.


6. EaseMyTrip - EaseMyTrip is also a new entrant in the travel industry which is most popular for flight booking.


7. Yatra.com - Yatra.com is an old and popular OTA which allows customers to Book hotels online.


8. Agoda - Agoda is also an international OTA which is used for online hotel rooms Booking. If a hotel is listed on Booking.com, it is usually seen that it gets listed on Agoda too on its own and prices and Inventory gets updated on Agoda as per booking.com 


There are lots of OTAs (Online Travel Agents) available in the market, out of those, some of the very prominent ones are mentioned above.

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