eCommerce in India is more or less the same as online travel. A study by Visa last year showed that all the three top categories in online shopping was related to travel booking. And one of the biggest companies to benefit from this is state-owned IRCTC which is responsible for booking the train tickets in India. According to a recent report from Comscore, IRCTC received 7.7 million unique visitors in April 2010 – 46% up from the numbers in April 2009.
Here are the top 10 online travel sites in India and the monthly uniques for April 2010
1. Indian Railways (IRCTC) : 7.75 million
2. MakeMyTrip : 2.37 million
3. Yatra Online : 1.93 million
4. Expedia : 1.64 million
5. ClearTrip : 1.19 million
6. TravelAdNetwork : 872,000
7. Travelocity : 812,000
8. IndiaRailInfo : 647,000
9. Jet Airways : 585,000
10. eRail.In : 464,000