Yatra.com appoints Mr. Chakrapani Gollapali as Chief Business Officer, Holidays..!

 Yatra.com appoints Mr. Chakrapani Gollapali as Chief Business Officer, Holidays..!

Chakrapani is tasked with the charge of innovation and disruption

Yatra.com, one of India’s leading online travel portals, today announced the appointment of Mr. Chakrapani Gollapali as Chief Business Officer, Holidays for the Company. Chakrapani, a former Microsoft India executive, will be responsible for the strategic direction, operational execution and the overall business results for the Holidays Unit of Yatra. 

This charter will enable Yatra to deliver an integrated organizational approach for product innovation and customer delight across the domestic, international and exotic destinations spanning across all it’s channels; Online, Contact Centers, Retail and Direct Sales.

Commenting on the appointment, Mr. Dhruv Shringi, Co-Founder and CEO, Yatra said, “We are thrilled to have Chakrapani join the leadership team and look forward to his vision in our continued strategic transformation to becoming a comprehensive service and product provider within the travel industry. 

Mr. Chakrapani Gollapali,
Chief Business Officer,
Holidays, Yatra.Com.

Hebrings with him a legacy of outstanding experience in the technology and consumer businesses that will be key in formulating and driving our Holiday business, which is a vitalarea for the Company. We are certain that he will help pioneer breakthrough product innovation in the Holiday smarket with a focus on superior customer experience.”

With over two decades of experience in technology, mobile and consumer businesses, Chakrapanihas had led several established and also incubating businesses. 

In his last role, he served as the Country General Manager for Microsoft India, leading all of Microsoft’s core consumer categories; Windows, Office, Windows Phone and Xbox across the Retail, Online, OEM and Operator Channels. 

He also spent 6 years from 2005-11 with Nokia as the General Manager of the Eseries Smartphones business in India and also in the global organization that created the mobile payments business for Nokia and led the GTM for Emerging Markets and India. Earlier in his career 1999-2000, he also founded and ran for 3 years, an internet-startup; Office Infinity, in the consumables and supplies space and pioneered quite a few product and business model innovations.

“The online travel industry has evolved rapidly over the last decade with the growth of internet, broadband and mobile penetration. I feel excited about the opportunity to create fundamental product differntiation by leveraging new internet business models while also obsessing about delightful customer experiences at every stage of engagement.’”,said Chakrapani Gollapali. 

“I hope to inject a fresh perspective to the business and help dramatically build scale while making Yatra the most preferred brand choice for holiday travellers in India”.

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About Yatra.com

Yatra.com is India’s leading online travel company. Positioned as a brand that believes in “Creating Happy Travellers”, we provide information, pricing, availability, and booking facility for domestic and international air travel, hotel bookings, holiday packages and bus and railway reservations. We offer a host of travel services designed to make business and leisure travel easier.

Based in Gurgaon, India, Yatra.com is a one-stop-shop for all travel-related services. A leading consolidator of travel products, Yatra.com provides reservation facility for more than 40,000 hotels in India and over 400,000 hotels around the world. 

Through continued excellence in providing travel solutions, responses to booking travel online through Yatra.com have also reached new heights with the company doing 20,000 domestic tickets and 10,000 hotel room nights a day.

Customers can access Yatra.com through multiple ways: through our user-friendly website, mobile optimised WAP site and applications, 24x7 multi-lingual call centre, a countrywide network of Holiday Lounges and Yatra Travel Express stores. 

Yatra.com provides booking facility for all the popular as well as exotic national and international destinations. Launched in August 2006, Yatra.com is today ranked as the leading provider of consumer-direct travel services in India. 

Yatra.com has emerged as the most trusted travel brand in India, and has won three awards at the India Tourism Awards felicitated for ‘Outstanding performance as a Domestic Tour Operator (Rest of India)’, Outstanding performance as a Domestic Tour Operator in Jammu and Kashmir’ and ‘Outstanding performance as an Inbound Tour Operator-Cat C’.

For further information on Yatra.com please contact:

Krishna Moorthy - 994291717

Avian Media, Chennai

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