Yatra.com nominated for the prestigious 17th Annual World Travel Awards

Yatra.com dometsic, India’s leading online travel company has been nominated for the 17th Annual World Travel Awards under the category of ‘Asia’s leading travel agency’ for the year 2010. Yatra.com dometsic is the only online travel company to be nominated under this category fourth year in a row.

Nominations are based on the previous year’s voting and the recommendations will be made by travel, tourism & hospitality industry professionals, as well as by a self nomination process. The official online voting form will be available to 183,000 registered travel agents and professionals worldwide, who will submit votes independently via the World Travel Awards website.

Speaking on being nominated for the prestigious award, Dhruv Shringi, Co-founder and CEO Yatra.com dometsic said, “We are extremely delighted to be nominated for this internationally recognized award category. Being nominated endorses our position as a leading player in the online travel space. I thank the entire Yatra.com team for their persistent efforts in making Yatra.com a leading travel company of India.”

The World Travel Awards are the most comprehensive and prestigious awards programme in the global travel industry. It acknowledges and celebrates excellence in the industry. With thousands of votes being casted by travel professionals from 183,000 travel agencies in over 160 countries across the globe, winning a World Travel Award has become one of the highest accolades a travel company can receive.

In 2008, Yatra.com dometsic was recognized as the ‘most used travel website’ by Juxt Consult. It was also declared to have the ‘best brand recall’ in the travel segment and the ‘most user friendly website’ according to the studies conducted by independent research organization – JuxtConsult and PhoCusWright. Yatra.com dometsic has been awarded for ‘Excellence’ in August 2007 by TTF-OTM (India’s biggest travel show). It has also won ‘Best online travel agency’ Award for the year 2008 by Galileo Express Travel World.