EaseMyTrip to increase focus on travel packages for higher margins

Delhi-based online travel portal, EaseMyTrip, which has claimed to book close to 8-9 lakh air passengers per month, is looking to step up its hotel reservation and travel packages business.

According to Nishant Pitti, co-Founder and CEO, EaseMyTrip, nearly 95 per cent of the company’s business currently comes from flight bookings.

The remaining 5 per cent flows from hotel reservations, travel packages, and train and bus bookings.

“Planning travel packages for consumers gives a better yield as compared to the margins earned from flight bookings. So the target would be to increase the share of holiday packages and other businesses to close to 20 per cent by 2020,” Pitti told BusinessLine.