Yatra Launches Innovative 'Xplore' Feature to Help Optimize Traveler Budgets

GURGAON, India and NEW YORK, August 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

Yatra Online, Inc. (NASDAQ: YTRA, OTCQX: YTROF), India's leading online travel company, has introduced a new feature called 'Xplore', which is aimed at optimizing traveler budgets. With a user friendly, easy to navigate and visually appealing design, Xplore aims to revolutionize and simplify the user experience while enabling a traveler plan a trip within a stipulated budget.

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Earlier this week, while announcing strong June 2017 (F1Q18) quarterly results posting 34% YoY Revenue less Service Cost growth, Yatra's CEO and Co-founder Dhruv Shringi, commented on the ongoing innovation at Yatra Labs, "On the product development front we launched an exciting new product feature towards the end of the June 2017 quarter that we are calling 'Xplore'. This feature allows customers to find the cheapest air-fare for travel to any region in the world over the next 12 months using a new and intuitive user interface. We expect this to help us further drive growth in our international air business. A culture of Innovation is now well embedded in Yatra's DNA. Such innovative products combined with the ATB acquisition and a strong travel macro backdrop in India gives us confidence in achieving our projected Revenue Less Service Cost growth of 35-40% for FY18."

Xplore resonates well with Yatra's commitment to innovation in the travel landscape and further expands its suite of Industry leading innovationssuch as Voice led search, Booking Chat Bots and UBER app integration.

You can find the Xplore feature at https://www.yatra.com/etw-desktop/

About Yatra Online, Inc. 

We are the second largest online travel agent company in India. Yatra, based in Gurgaon, India, is a one-stop marketplace for all travel-related services. The company provides information, pricing, availability, and booking facility for domestic and international air travel, domestic and international hotel bookings, holiday packages, buses, trains, in-city activities, inter-city and point-to-point cabs, homestays and cruises. As a leading consolidator of accommodation options, Yatra provides real-time bookings for more than 65,000 hotels in India and over 500,000 hotels around the world. Through our website, http://www.yatra.com, our mobile application and our other associated platforms, leisure and business travelers can explore, research, compare prices and book a wide range of services catering to their travel needs.

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For more information, please contact:
Manish Hemrajani
Yatra Online, Inc.
VP, Head of Investor Relations
+1-646-875-8380
[email protected]

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