India online travel

A couple of pieces on contentsutra.com suggest that a large portion of e-commerce in India currently relates to travel:

Three-fourth Of Indiatimes’ E-commerce Accounted By Travel Products: Indiatimes is the website linked to what is arguably India's most powerful newspaper company, Bennett Coleman & Co., the publishers of The Times of India.

Expedia looking for country head: The report notes that Expedia is setting up shop in India, most probably in the first quarter of 2007.