Disha Shah Ghosh - Mumbai RateHawk, a B2B platform by the UAE-based company Emerging Travel Group, which offers hotel booking services, air tickets and transfers has seen a three-fold growth in business from India during Q4, 2023, since foraying in this market mid-last year.
Talking about this, Victoria Vlasenko, Senior Sales Manager, Asia Pacific Region, RateHawk, said, “My first visit to India last year was to gauge the market potential, and the opportunities here. Now we have a team of four, including two local managers, and are gradually expanding the team here. Between Q3 and Q4 of 2023, we have seen a three-fold growth from India. We have doubled the number of companies that have started using our system reaching over 2000 partners.”
Currently, 2.54 million hotels across the world are listed on the RateHawk system. “We are one of the biggest platforms in hotel bookings space. We work with over 230 global accommodation wholesalers and also develop direct hotel contracts with hotels in India to make sure that we cover not only outbound but also domestic and inbound demand. While we also offer air ticket bookings and land transfers, hotel inventory remains our key offering. For airlines, we use the GDS, and for hotel bookings we have contracts via direct sales and through local B2B partners.”
