NEW DELHI : MakeMyTrip, India’s largest online travel booking company, is witnessing high growth rates in domestic travel.
The company’s second-quarter (Q2) earnings indicate an 80% recovery in domestic hotels and packages. Even in Q2, the lean travel period this year, the company achieved high volume growth in the air ticketing business as well as room nights in its hotels and packages, Deep Kalra, founder and group chief executive officer of MakeMyTrip, said in an interview.
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