Paytm has appointed Abhishek Rajan as the VP and head of its travel unit. Paytm has confirmed Rajan's appointment, while the development was first reported by ET. Rajan will be based out of Bangalore. Prior to joining Paytm, Rajan worked as the head of mobile business at Myntra for 1.5 years where he looked after Myntra’s growth revenue on mobile. Before that, he co-founded Easy2commute in 2009 and continues to work there. Rajan also worked as a product manager at Flipkart for over 2 years, before which he was with Paytm as the founder and head of the commerce business for over 3 years. He has worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers for about 3.5 years, as a business consultant with Keane Consulting Group for about 2 years and as an associate software engineer at ST Microelectronics for a year. Hotel bookings, entertainment tickets: In October, Paytm launched hotel bookings on its Android and iOS apps, where it offered 20,000 hotel listings across the country in the first rollout phase. Paytm said it would enter the hyperlocal services vertical, starting with food ordering, table bookings, cinema tickets and deals in the user’s neighbourhood. In September, the company had also said that it would add movie and entertainment tickets on its platform. QR payments: In the same month, Paytm launched QR code based payments in the Paytm Wallet app, which could be used by shopkeepers or service providers in order to accept digital payments. Users could also pay via the Wallet app. The QR…
