Online travel booking platform EaseMyTrip.com on Wednesday announced venturing into the insurance sector with the launch of its subsidiary EaseMyTrip Insurance Broker Pvt Ltd.
The company termed it a “strategic move” to diversify its service portfolio and tap into the insurance market by creating a specialised product to solve customer needs.
“The new venture is expected to solidify EaseMyTrip’s position in the industry and cater to a Rs 7.9 trillion market with EaseMyTrip’s own 20 million userbase,” the company said in a regulatory filing.
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The company’s insurance foray comes days after it made headlines for suspending flight bookings to the Maldives in the wake of diplomatic tensions between India and the island nation.
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