Yandex is going to open a single travel portal

The former services will be restarted to merge services for the meta-search of plane and train tickets, hotels and tours, and the search for transport schedules within one travel resource.

 

Teams of these services have already united, the former head of Ozon.travel Dmitry Yakovlev has been invited to a leadership position.

 

Yakovlev noted that “Yandex was presented only as an advertising platform in the tourism market, although the company’s ecosystem capabilities allow us to expand our presence in the travel niche to more advanced services.”

 

According to him, in a single travel portal, it will be possible to create new services: a personal account, a passenger notebook, notifications about the status of the flight, recommendations and advice on travel.

 

It is planned that Yandex partners will be responsible for pricing, and he himself will remain a search engine, and Yandex is going to take a commission for orders from partners. The greatest hopes are placed on the service "Yandex.Air tickets".

 

According to Data Insight, the volume of the online travel market in the Russian Federation in 2017 increased by 22%, to 780 billion rubles, of which 49% accounted for air tickets, 21% for railway tickets, 24% for hotels, 3% for tours, etc. In 2018, the market will increase by 18%, to 920 billion rubles.