Redbus.in – Online bus tickets booking, reservation – Features and Review
By Chandramouly Rathinasababathy on 5 November, 2009, 8:01 am
Online Travel Industry is still in its early stage in India. Good number of Startups are already operating on India Online Travel Market and helping consumers in hassle less travel experiences. And, Venture Capitalists have invested millions of money in many of Online Travel Startup Companies in India in the past few years.
With 1.2 Billion population, Indian market has a good potential for Online Travel Booking / Reservation. But, broadband penetration in India might be a limiting factor for Online Travel Market. Still, the country boasts of having one of the largest mobile subscriber base , which is helping Online Travel Companies for sure.
I used to travel in trains, buses and flights but some 3 years back. I have never seen people bringing E-tickets to trains or buses. But now its very common, they bring their E-tickets and self printed boarding passes and travel with no pain. Gone are those days where we used to spend time with less professional travel agents in getting tickets and seat numbers of our wish.
We all knew that we can reserve tickets for flights online(in airways websites or travel sites like makemytrip.com, yatra.com, etc.,) and train tickets too(irctc.co.in, indianrail.gov.in). But what is the site for booking buses? Anyone booked it before? Or wonder if that is possible?
Many people are still not aware of the possibility of booking bus tickets online with no hassles or without calling the travel offices. Yes, its so simple to book a bus ticket. I used to travel every week from Chennai to Pondicherry and many of friends travel frequently from Bangalore to Chennai. You know we all waste too much time in calling travels and asking for tickets availability every week. After IT boom, many people who travel frequently are software engineers especially the crowd from Bangalore to other cities. We all struggle in booking the bus tickets, we have been surviving with this pain for long time, lets take a turn and look at the online bus reservation site redbus.in today!
According to Nielsen’s India Online Travel Agent Study, 80% of Indians view all the online booking sites as a boom & make their job easy. Below survey is the clear indication of growing online travel agents in India.
Nielsen India Online Travel Agent Survey
Where is the booking bus tickets stand here, yes its not at all in picture because of its very small ratio. But its picking up very fast. One of the growing online bus booking/reservation site is redBus.in. I personally used this site to book my tickets sometime back when I had to travel from Bangalore to Pondicherry.
More details on RedBus.in, their services and offerings in the next page …
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Really it has a good support. You are treated well and your request is considered immediately.
evalo kuduthanga machi>? redbus.in
Deeii…serious blog la comedy panriyey !!!
well, an A/C bus and a lifetime coupon for free travel anywhere within India.
@Hari – Thanks. I haven’t seen anything about coupon code? have you made use of any coupons?
Pretty neatly covered the whole portal of redbus.in !!
Have been using redbus service for almost 2 years now…
“Do you give any advantages if I refer my friend to book his tickets through redBus.in?”
I guess they have some coupon code for promotions as well.
Check this site http://www.SimplyBus.com … I did my bookings (Bangalore to Chennai and back) for my last week travel.
Seems like they have an affiliate program as well – where in some money/commission can be made. Haven’t tried yet though.
Sharath