10 Best Online Travel Booking Websites & Agencies in India 2023

Making travel bookings via brick and mortar agents has become an old story now. Today, you don’t need to visit various tours & travel offices for the best price, itinerary, planning, inclusions, facilities, and more. There are many online travel booking platforms which provide all of the above and much more making your travel easier & cost-effective. Moreover, you can compare their services to find the best suitable for you. Therefore, we have got the 10 Best Online Travel Booking Websites & Agencies in India 2023 so let's check them out.

MakeMyTrip is a 21 year old online travel agency with Indian operations started in 2005. It is well known for its 24x7 customer service. Also for its wide range of travel services which includes flights, hotels, villas & apartments, trains, buses, holidays, cabs, charter flights, visas, and activities. It also ranks well in handling corporate travel bookings.

It includes Goibibo and redBus as its subsidiaries. MakeMyTrip is high on offering lucrative rewards to its customers which helps its users save more on travel expenses. It is also among the few to provide travel gift cards.

Yatra is based in Gurugram, India. It was launched in 2006. It is popular for its corporate travel services with 700+ corporate customers. Moreover, it has won the National Tourism Award for Best Domestic (Rest of India) Tour Operator 4 times. It has tie-ups with nearly 1 lakh hotels in India and over 15 lakh hotels globally.

You can book flights, hotels, villas & stays, buses, cabs, holiday packages, trains, freights, adventure activities, monument visits, and charter flights on Yatra. Thus, makes it a start-to-end online travel booking experience for customers.

Goibibo offers online booking of flights, hotels, trains, cabs, and buses. It was founded in 2009 and is currently a subsidiary of MakeMyTrip Limited. It is well known for its lowest price guarantee on International flights. Moreover, its goStays feature for hotels which ensures clean rooms & bathrooms, tv, ac, wifi, high customer ratings, and more is also popular.

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Goibibo has got several recognitions including Amazon Web Services Mobility Awards 2017, Economic Times Best Tech Brands 2016, and Leisure & Travel website of the year India 2015. It also excels in online travel booking discounts with Goibibo new user offers, GoCash offers, bank offers, and more.

Oyo Rooms is an Indian multinational hospitality agency. It includes leased and franchised hotels, homes and living spaces. It is a 8 year old company, but has been successful as an online hotel booking platform in a short period of time.

Oyo Rooms is well known for its low cost & budget hotels in India. It is wide spread across the country with majority of properties in Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Mumbai. In all (globally), it covers 80 countries, 43K+ hotels, and 150K vacation homes.

EaseMyTrip is a 13 year old online travel agency. It had 52,752 travel agents, as of 30th September 2019, in India which is a huge number. Moreover, it accounts for 9.27 million direct customers in the country. Besides, it took a leap into the Indian stock market via its Easy Trip Planners Ltd IPO recently.

In 2018-19, it was 3rd in the list of key online travel agencies in India. You can book flights, hotels, trains, buses, cabs, holidays, activities, and charters on its online platforms (website and app).

Booking.com is a 25 year old online travel agency. It operates in 70+ countries globally including India. Moreover, it is the only digital travel platform to be available in 43 languages. Additionally, it has 28M+ reported accommodation listings on its site out of which 6.2M+ are homes, apartments, and other unique stay places.

Here, you can book stays, flights, hotels, cars (on rent), attractions, and airport taxis. You can also list your own property here to make some good money. It is a well established international travel agency.

Ixigo is backed by Sequoia Capital India, Fosun Kinzon Capital, SAIF Partners, MakeMyTrip Ltd, and Micromax Informatics Ltd. It has a user base of 170M+ travellers and was founded 15 years back.

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Ixigo is well known for its trip planner feature which helps you get the best travel itinerary. It also helps you book flights, trains, buses, and hotels.

redBus is an online bus booking agency with a unique touch. The unique touch here means features like rPool (bike & car sharing) and bus hire. It has taken road travel to the next level and that too by offering budget and low-cost services.

redBus has 36M+ customers and 3500+ bus operators worldwide. It has booked 220M+ bus tickets so far in Colombia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, and Singapore. Moreover, it has won recognition as Business Standard’s most innovative company, most trusted brand by The Brand Trust Report, and mobile innovation award by Eye For Travel.

IRCTC stands for Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation which itself says a lot. It is well known for online train ticket bookings. Also, it is popular for hill railways, charter trains, tourist trains, religious holiday packages (buddhist circuit, char dham, vaishno devi, etc).

IRCTC got a huge financial boost by bringing its IPO in the stock exchange some months back. You can also book buses, flights, hotels, meals, international holidays, rail tours, and special trains.

HappyEasyGo started its operations in 2017. In this short period of time, it has done well in the Indian online travel market. It is well known for its best prices on travel services i.e. flight and hotel bookings. It’s agent program is also one of its type as it is rewarding for both agents and customers.

Here’s the summary of List of 10 Best Online Travel Booking Websites & Agencies in India 2023.

Whose services have you experienced and what did you like or disliked about them? Feel free to mention even if it is not in this list.