Bengaluru leads, through the two global reservation companies, Amadeus and Sabre, and several travel sites. Delhi NCR follows through Expedia Group and India's own travel apps, like MakeMyTrip and ixigo, and Mumbai through Priceline's centre, while Agoda hires across many Indian cities. India's own apps also sell bus tickets, through redBus and AbhiBus, and Indian companies sell hotel software to the world, like RateGain and Hotelogix.
For an engineer, these are large, fast, always-on booking sites, where a slow page loses the sale. Java and frontend engineers are far more common here than at a typical product company, and the workforce is unusually senior.
Travel tech is one of the Industry Verticals of
The Market Segments follow a trip from the site it is booked on, through the systems underneath, to the company trip, the hotel and the paperwork before departure.
The world's travel sites, like Agoda, Expedia Group, Booking Holdings and Airbnb, sit beside India's own, like MakeMyTrip, redBus, ixigo and Cleartrip.
The reservation systems that connect airlines, hotels and agents come from Amadeus and Sabre, and airline software from Accelya.
Business trips booked within a company's rules run on platforms like Navan, Spotnana, Amex GBT and ITILITE.
Hotel pricing, distribution and guest software comes from companies like RateGain, IDeaS Revenue Solutions, SiteMinder, Cendyn and Hotelogix.
Apps for the visa, the itinerary and paying abroad come from companies like Atlys, Scapia and Pilot.
A hotel chain run with software at its core is here through Treebo.
What travel tech companies hire software engineers for, and which roles they hire, is on