page_title: Cleartrip
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Cleartrip / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Cleartrip
context_page_description: Cleartrip is a global online travel company, headquartered in Mumbai and Dubai. The company operates an online travel aggregator website for booking flights and train tickets, hotel reservations, and activities in India and the Middle East countries. It has offices across India, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
context_section_description: Cleartrip was founded in 2006 as a hotels and air aggregator by Hrush Bhatt, Matthew Spacie and Stuart Crighton. Seeing the fragmentation that existed in the Indian travel and hospitality sector, the founders decided to enter the online travel space with a vision of making travel simple.
  Cleartrip also operates Cleartrip for Business, an online corporate travel management tool; Agent Box, a travel tool for travel agents; and Cleartrip Mobile, a travel booking app for mobile devices. In 2012, it added new services such as Quickeys, for last-minute deals on hotel booking and other journey planning services. In April 2012, Cleartrip launched iOS app with a split-screen search feature to enable round-trip search results. Its app also came with geo-location feature to choose the airport for departure from the current location. The search platform of the app also allows to swap the from and to cities with a tap. The app is compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad.
  In January 2013, Cleartrip brought air, rail and bus tickets to Apple's Passbook. The same year the company undertook a massive UI redesign project, Tuxedo where every field in the website was thought through in terms of placement, display, action.
  In 2014, Cleartrip Mobile was recognized as part of Apple’s Best of 2014 Trends of the year and also featured as the ‘Editor’s Pick.
  In 2015, Cleartrip became the first Indian online travel agency to feature on Apple Watch and by the end of 2015, its app traffic had overtaken web traffic and accounted for 59 per cent of its total traffic. By May 2016 nearly 75% of Cleartrip’s traffic was coming via mobile.
  In April 2018, Cleartrip launched an Arabic version of its website to target the growing Arabic community in the GCC region.
  In May 2018, Cleartrip launched an app for Amazon's Alexa voice assistant that enables Alexa users to voice search air travel options.
  With gross booking value of $1.4 billion and revenues worth of $110 million, Cleartrip is one of the few companies of scale in this space. It is seeing annual growth of over 40% in MENA, driven by the increasing shift from offline to online.
  In 2018, Cleartrip was named as one among the only two companies that followed the GDPR and allowed users to delete personal information associated with their accounts.
caption: The company's office at Bangalore, India
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