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Yatra to aggregate cabs from aggregators & car companies: report

Online travel agency (OTA) Yatra will be aggregating cabs from online cab aggregators Ola and Uber on its mobile app starting next week, reports VCCircle. Users can also book cabs outside their city as well as self-drive cars (timeline not mentioned) from companies like Myles, Zoomcar and EasyCabs through tie ups. It will charge a commission from cab aggregators for likely each booking. As of now, the feature is not live on the app. It is unclear if Yatra will launch a new category for booking cabs or if it will suggest a cab when a user is booking a hotel/flight or other mode of transport. The report cited Manish Amin, co-founder and CIO of Yatra, as saying that the company is looking to automate queries from its customers through bots. Delisting budget hotel chains; homestays launched Incidentally, Yatra, along with other OTAs MakeMyTrip and Goibibo had delisted budget hotel chains Oyo Rooms and Zo Rooms from their platforms last October. Before this move, and in the same month, it launched two new types of accommodation options for travellers: TG Rooms and TG Stays, which would be bookable via both Yatra and Travelguru. Note that TravelGuru was acquired by Yatra in 2012. Travel-logs acquisition; appointments In January, Yatra acqui-hired the trip planning startup Travel-logs for an undisclosed amount. The startup’s founder Dhiresh Sharma joined Yatra as head of a new segment called Metro X. Yatra also appointed Vikrant Mudaliar as the chief marketing officer, whereas in September last year, it…

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