Yatra.com, India’s leading online travel company, has won the coveted Red Herring Asia 2009 awards under the category of ‘100 Most Innovative Private Technologies Companies in Asia’. This is a prestigious award which recognizes companies that will lead the next wave with innovative and potentially disruptive technologies.

The Red Herring editorial board diligently surveyed the entrepreneurial scene throughout Asia and identified the top 100 out of more than 1,000 closely evaluated companies that are leading the next wave of innovation.

Established in August 2006, Yatra.com has grown fast to become India’s leading travel company, serving over 1 million customers per annum. Yatra.com believes in providing the best in class services to its customers and reaches out to them through its website, 24×7 call centre and 11 Premium Retail Holiday Lounges spread across the country. Yatra.com has an employee base of more than 700.

Speaking on being awarded, Dhruv Shringi, Co founder & CEO, Yatra.com, said, “We are truly honored to be awarded by Red Herring second year in a row. Being the only Indian travel company to be awarded endorses our position as a leading player in the online travel space.”

Last year Yatra.com was announced as a winner of the ‘2008 Red Herring Top 100 Start-ups’ in Asia. In the past, Yatra.com has received a lot of prestigious awards and recognitions. It has been recognized as the ‘most used travel website’ by Juxt Consult in their India Online Survey 2008. It has also been declared to have the ‘best brand recall’ in the travel segment and the ‘most user friendly website’ according to the recent studies conducted by Juxt Consult and Phocus Wright, which are independent research organizations. Yatra.com has also been awarded for ‘Excellence’ in August-07 by TTF-OTM (India’s biggest travel show). Yatra.com has also won ‘Best online travel agency’ Award for the Year 2008 By Galileo Express Travel World.