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Headquartered in Mumbai, India, Cleartrip Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian online travel company providing online booking services for flights and train tickets, hotel reservations, and domestic and international holiday packages. It is amongst the top Online Travel agencies in India. Apart from India, Cleartrip is also featured as a leading Online Travel Agency in the Gulf Region.

History and Growth
Cleartrip was founded by Mathhew Spacie, Hrush Bhatt & Stuart Crighton in 2006. Following the slogan –“Making Travel Simple”, it provides easy booking to travellers along with useful travel tips through their website with an objective to provide simple travel solutions for customers. In May 2010, Cleartrip launched its first overseas venture in the UAE. In May 2012, it started services to the Gulf nations of Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia.

In August 2014, Cleartrip established booking contracts with over 15,000 hotels across the globe, and reported approximately 15,000 air transactions and 2,000 hotel bookings on its portal.

Products and Services
Along with the full-service web portal, Cleartrip also operates Cleartrip for Business, an online corporate travel management tool; Agent Box , a travel tool for India's large agency base; and Cleartrip Mobile , a travel booking app for mobile devices.

Flight and Retail Booking
Cleartrip offers services of searching and booking tickets for both one-way and roundtrip flights across all major domestic and international airlines. In addition, train reservation services for all major trains in India are available, wherein users are able to search for the seat availability across all classes and connect Cleartrip and IRCTC accounts. The portal assists users to search for trains between stations, retrieve train schedules, check PNR statues, and verify Waiting List or RAC reservation.

Hotel Reservation
Cleartrip offers an option to book from numerous hotels around the globe, with options of same-day and next-day check-ins. Cleartrip also offers the Pay@Hotel feature, wherein users can book their room with Cleartrip and pay the full amount directly at the hotel.

Hotel Packages
Cleartrip offers a range of holiday packages comprising flight-and-hotel combination deals for destinations around the world.

Cleartrip Mobile
Cleartrip Mobile is company’s flagship app offering all the features of Cleartrip's full-service portal for mobile devices. Users can search for information; book seats aboard flights, trains and buses; and make hotel reservations through this app. Cleartrip Mobile is available for Apple, Android, and Symbian devices.

Cleartrip for Business
Cleartrip offers travel booking services to 2,000 small and medium corporate enterprises, through Cleartrip for Business, wherein users can book flight, trains, and hotels.

AgentBox
AgentBox is an online product for travel agents, powered by Cleartrip, which allows travel agents and tour companies to book tickets and receive commissions. AgentBox offers an inventory of domestic and international flights as well as hotels to over 3,000 registered travel agents across India.

Cleartrip Special Features

 * Fare Alerts, Cleartrip's real-time airfare tracker
 * Expressway, which enables users to make one-touch bookings
 * Passbook support, which enables paperless ticket booking
 * Quickeys, last-minute deals on hotel booking
 * Waytogo, a journey planner featuring air, rail, coach, ferry and self-driven options
 * Collections, a Curated list of destinations, activities, travel themes and hotels
 * Pay@Hotel, which allows users to book their room with Cleartrip and pay the full amount directly at the hotel
 * Weekend getaways, which lets users search for getaways from the city of origin based on drive time or destination; and select a hotel and make a room reservation
 * Online Amendments, which allows users to modify their itineraries online

Venture Funding

 * Concur Technologies Inc. holds 40% stake in Cleartrip with a strategic investment of $40 million
 * Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
 * Sherpalo Ventures
 * DAG Ventures
 * Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Leadership Team

 * Stuart Crighton – Founder and Chief Executive Officer
 * Hrush Bhatt - Founder & Director, Product and Strategy
 * Samyukth Sridharan – President and Chief Operating Officer
 * Amit Taneja - Chief Revenue Officer
 * Subramanya Sharma – Chief Marketing Officer

Board of Directors

 * Sandeep Murthy - Chairman, Cleartrip
 * Stuart Crighton- Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Cleartrip
 * Avnish Bajaj
 * Mohanjit Jolly
 * Sridar Iyengar
 * S.Steven Singh
 * John Torrey