Brands
Skybags announces ‘Canvas Project’s new edition
MUMBAI: Skybags has announced the 3rd season of much awaited annual design event ‘The Skybags Canvas Project’, providing an opportunity to people who are creatively inclined to design a new collection for Skybags.
The Skybags Canvas Project is a platform for the designers to showcase their creativity on a larger scale. For this online competition, Skybags has created a separate microsite that will host the contest. Designers have to download the design kit from the website and upload an original design including Skybags Logo to the microsite once created. The designers ask their peers to vote for their designs and the designs with maximum likes have a chance to win the award.
Varun Dhawan, the Skybag’s brand ambassador, and VIP Industries VP design and development Vasant Dewaji will review all the entries and select the best design. The winning design will be featured on the Skybags latest collection. Also, the winner will be awarded a high-performance 4K desktop and the runner up of the contest will get a 4K camera. Skybags will gift a backpack to the best design of the day.
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MakeMyTrip partners with OpenAI to boost AI-powered travel planning
Conversational AI now guides travellers from inspiration straight to booking
GURUGRAM: MakeMyTrip, India’s leading online travel company, has teamed up with OpenAI to bring a fresh twist to AI-driven travel planning. The collaboration integrates OpenAI’s APIs into MakeMyTrip’s app, making it easier than ever for travellers to move from chatting about dream trips to booking them.
The move centres around MakeMyTrip’s Myra interface, a GenAI trip planning assistant that now handles over 50,000 conversations a day in languages ranging from English and Hindi to Tamil, Telugu and Bengali. Myra helps travellers explore options, create itineraries and book flights, hotels and extras without the usual hassle of searching and filtering.
MakeMyTrip co-founder and group CEO Rajesh Magow said, “With OpenAI, we turn curiosity into confident decisions. When travellers start their journey through conversation, MakeMyTrip becomes a seamless extension of that discovery process. AI combined with our travel data makes it possible to deliver personalised, bookable options at scale.”
OpenAI managing director- international Oliver Jay added, “MakeMyTrip is showing how AI can make travel planning feel more like a conversation than a chore. Advanced AI isn’t just about back-end efficiencies, it’s about transforming the way travellers experience and engage with the platform.”
MakeMyTrip has long invested in AI across the travel lifecycle, from inspiration and discovery to booking and post-sales support. Nearly half of Myra’s queries now come from tier-2 and smaller cities, and voice interactions are booming outside metros, making AI travel assistance more accessible than ever.
With this partnership, MakeMyTrip is not just keeping up with AI trends, it’s aiming to lead the way, turning every traveller’s whim into a smooth, bookable adventure.
