Yatra.com Clocks Sales Of $5 Million A Month, To Break Even By End-2008
Ok, here are some details on travel portal Yatra.com revenues. The company claims monthly revenues of $5 million, and a volume of 2,500 tickets and 150 rooms a day. The company expects to break even by end of 2008, according to a company official.
In contrast, market leader MakeMyTrip.com is doing revenues of about $10 million a month. But Yatra is the latest entrant into the market by launching its services only mid-last year. So the numbers look good, from that perspective.
“We have posted an average revenue of $5 million a month with a volume of 2,500 tickets and 150 rooms a day. The company expects to break even by the end of 2008,” Nikhil Rungta, head of marketing, Yatra Online Pvt Ltd, told Financial Express.
Meanwhile, Yatra has announced a tie-up with Reliance Web World outlets for booking hotel rooms. Reliance Capital is an investor in the company, so that would have helped in clinching the deal with Reliance Web World, which will earn a commission from the bookings made out of the outlets. The pilot has been launched in 48 centres in three cities, initially—- Kolkata, Mumbai and Bangalore. The outlets will have a travel desk to handle this part of the business.
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Comments (21)
Mar 23, 2007 1:04 PM
lol, 2,500 tickets and 150 rooms a day is over exaggerated !.,
Mar 24, 2007 2:21 AM
With $ 5 million a month and min of 2% margin the company must be earning at least $1.2 million a year i.e. Rs 5.2 Crores (assuming no growth from here onwards). Do they really have so much of opex, that it will take them 2 years to break even, given that they are an online company with no physical presence. Numbers look exaggerated. Any thoughts ?
Mar 25, 2007 2:11 AM
Yes the numbers look really exaggerated..
Im sure they dont have offline presence..
Mar 26, 2007 2:23 AM
when are these guys gonna learn from jobsites?? ( minus the one that claims that they get 20K CVs per day…lol [:p] )
Doing press release with unbeleivable numbers is gonna question the credibility of the organisation. Tommorow , even if they do USD 5 Million, nobody is gonna beleive that and gonna continue assuming that its actually 1/100th of what they claim…
Jul 6, 2007 3:49 PM
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Jul 7, 2007 4:34 AM
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Jul 7, 2007 4:36 AM
Also you say:
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Jul 7, 2007 12:45 PM
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Jul 7, 2007 11:14 PM
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Jul 17, 2007 1:05 AM
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I guess you should turn moderation on dude.
Jul 17, 2007 2:48 AM
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Oct 11, 2007 5:17 AM
Yatra is terrible for its customer support…... It is highly unlikely to ever do an IPO, if its customer support sucks.
I have personally lost more than Rs 1 lakh in Yatra.com - which is primarily their mistake….and the company talking about Rs 2 crore and other investment is growing only by cheating its customers and not returning the monies.
Its despicable management starts from the top - to the very low level employees, who have refused to refund after fighting after several days.
I am sure the company will not go anywhere, with this approach.
Mar 27, 2008 5:29 AM
grt website
Apr 16, 2008 1:31 AM
I also think that the numbers given on this article here may be too high. But it might be possible as Yatra have lots of big partners to support and expand its services like they mentioned here Reliance Capital and others. The site do have good reach to most of the people around the country. So might be possible! Haven’t used Yatra so can’t say about the support team.
Apr 30, 2008 8:54 AM
:) hmmm Yatra is only best option in market for flights booking and if you want to feel just open 5 travel website of India and you will see best user interface and cheap fares only on Yatra.com
Jul 14, 2008 7:18 AM
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Jul 31, 2008 5:52 AM
gr8 webiste providing air tickets
Aug 11, 2008 7:45 AM
it is also a gr8 website providing air tickets
Aug 20, 2008 3:50 PM
Nikhil - please dont bad mouth someone to stop his/her aparent bad behavior. You expose yourself in the process.
Apr 21, 2009 3:51 AM
I also agree that the numbers are quite high…