Tiket Kereta Api Kini Sudah Bisa Dibeli Secara Online

Akhirnya. Setelah sekian lama tertinggal dari moda transportasi seperti pesawat untuk kemudahan pemesanan tiket, akhirnya PT Kereta Api Indonesia (PT KAI) meluncurkan fasilitas pemesanan dan pembelian tiket melalui Internet. Fasilitas ini melengkapi cara-cara lain untuk membeli tiket kereta api, termasuk di dalamnya Rail Card dan Rail Box serta pembelian di minimarket terdekat. Tidak perlu lagi datang ke stasiun untuk mengantri dan bersaing dengan calo demi mudik atau mengunjungi teman dan kerabat.

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Airline Tickets Now Available from Tiket

Tiket.com has finally added a long awaited feature prior to its grand launch today. Following hotel reservations, movie tickets and concert and event tickets, Tiket.com today lets customers purchase airline tickets to a number of cities across Indonesia as well as outside of the country. The site currently is partnering with Lion Air, Sriwijaya Air and Batavia Air. At the moment there aren’t any local online third party services that allow ticket purchases with Citilink and Garuda Indonesia although the group does have its own online reservation facilities.

You can say that just about every Indonesian city with a flight route is listed on Tiket. Aside from that, you can also look up flight schedules for Singapore, Guangzhou, Jeddah, and Riyadh should you plan to travel to those cities. There’s no need to login to look up your travel costs but if you plan to book from the site, you’ll get more benefits from logging in and it’s quicker and easier through your Facebook account if you have one. Schedules and fares are valid until early 2013.

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Online Hotel Reservation Service and Their Shining Market

When was the last time you reserved a hotel room by phone? Unless your office has special discount privilege on certain hotels, online hotel reservation is probably your best option. You can find out and confirm room rates as well as do a comparison with other hotels in just a few clicks.

There is one thing I quoted from Rusdi Kirana, Lion Air CEO, on the controversial agreement to buy Boing 737. It said that the middle class in Indonesia is increasing in numbers. It influences the drastic growth of traveling desire. Automatically, the need of hotels as the accommodation and its easy way to reserve is a must.

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Online Travel Platform GoIndonesia To Be Launched Soon

A new travel site will be launched this November, the site is called GoIndonesia and they’re aiming to be an online social platform for everything related with travel. GoIndonesia will also enable visitors to make an online reservation and also online payment.

GoIndonesia will also provide an integrated solution for hotels, end-consumer and travel agents. This integrated system will also provide several payments options such as credit cards, bank transfers, internet banking and also pay on the spot.

This concept of integrated online travel platform could be a huge business especially if nicely integrated with international platforms. But of course all of this is just the concept, we still need to see whether GoIndonesia can live up to their own words and expectations.

So far, most of the travel portal sites in Indonesia is merely an online brochure for the real offline backend process. It remains to be seen what GoIndonesia has to offer in the travel business in Indonesia. Let’s wait for it.

YukTravel.com Joins Online Travel Service Competition

If you like or your in a condition that requires your to travel a lot, you are bound to be familiar with online ticket and hotel reservations. In Indonesia such service that offers full online service is still sparse, most of them still need manual transfer and or phone confirmation.

YukTravel is likely to become full online service using credit cards and PayPal service directly to purchase flight ticket and hotel reservation. YukTravek also provides holiday packages that include flight tickets and hotel.

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