Online travel booking portal Cleartrip to increase its workforce by 400 by the end of this year

• Cleartrip to increase its workforce to 700 employees, a three-fold increase from October last year.
• Earlier this quarter, the travel aggregator had increased its workforce by 60%.
• The hiring will be done in technology and product teams and across various destinations in India.

Cleartrip, a Bengaluru-based travel aggregator website, is looking forward to ramping up its workforce by 400 employees by December 2022. Hiring of 400 employees will take the workforce to a total of 700 employees, a three-fold increase from 240 employees in October 2021.

The hiring will be done in technology and product teams and across various destinations in India — Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab.

Earlier this quarter, the travel aggregator had increased its workforce by 60%. Large number of hiring was dedicated towards its plans to scale up its hotel category business.

When asked about the reason behind this massive hiring spree, Ayyappan Rajagopal, chief executive officer (CEO) of Cleartrip said, “Cleartrip is actively hiring for their upcoming tech park in Chennai where all the technology-related backhand work will be handled so that we can reach the target of 400 employees by the end of this year.”

He further said, “By hiring top talent from the industry across levels, we are infusing fresh energy and ideas into our teams, setting us up for success. As we move forward in 2022, one of our key goals this year is to bring more offerings, scale up our existing verticals to bring more digitally-enabled travel experiences for our customers to boost their confidence while travelling during what has been a difficult time.”

The announcement comes after Cleartrip’s acquisition by the Flipkart Group, part of US-based Walmart Group, which has accelerated the brand’s growth strategy to make an end-to-end travel app for the company by the end of 2022.

In 2021, e-commerce giant Flipkart had acquired a 100% stake in Cleartrip, making it a Flipkart Group company.

Cleartrip has raised a total of $56.4 million in funding over 7 rounds, as per data from Crunchbase. Their latest funding was raised on October 29 last year in a secondary market round.

Founded in 2006, Cleartrip is an online travel firm for booking flights, train tickets, hotel reservations, and activities in India and the Middle East countries. It holds offices across India, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

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