• Prabhakar Singh
• Dr. Devaraj Badugu

It is being used by millions of people but the Bus traveling industry in India is highly unorganised and took really a long time to see some innovation in the organised bus traveling and Ticketing in India. Thanks to the growing Tourism and Telecom industry of India which anchored the Bus industry and took it to the new heights. This Paper tries to explore and evaluate the level of the transformation and its impact by focusing the Mobile applications for the travel ticket booking. The paper is divided in various sections and the very first section covers the nature Travellers specially bus travel industry and the various challenges faced by it in India. The second section covers the various challenges faced by the various bus ticket booking apps which covers the most of the geographic area of the Country. Also this paper examines the growth model in existence of the apps which would provide a sustainable growth in long term to the organised bus travel industry in India.

Organised, ticketing, Apps, Travel industry

"ONLINE TRAVEL APPLICATIONS & SURFACE TRANSPORT IN INDIA: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.32-40, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905606.pdf

"ONLINE TRAVEL APPLICATIONS & SURFACE TRANSPORT IN INDIA: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp32-40, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905606.pdf