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MakeMyTrip Sale Lines Up 30,000 Hotels for Holidays

MakeMyTrip's second Travel Ka Muhurat Sale went live on November 14, 2026, with more than 30,000 domestic hotels, 3,500 international properties, 35 airlines and eight banks offering year-end holiday deals. The sale covers flights, hotels, homestays, packages, buses, trains, cabs, tours, forex and visa services. MMTBLACK loyalty members got access on November 13, a day early, and daily Lightning Drops run from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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Palolem Beach, Goa (archive). Goa is among the domestic destinations in MakeMyTrip's Travel Ka Muhurat Sale, alongside Coorg, the Andamans, Kerala and Rajasthan. Photo: Satyajit Nayak, via Wikimedia Commons.
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MakeMyTrip's sale is built on one argument: December inventory only gets scarcer and pricier, so 30,000 hotels and 35 airlines are being put in front of travelers in mid-November instead.

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MakeMyTrip has opened the second edition of its Travel Ka Muhurat Sale, and the scale is the pitch. The sale, which went live on November 14, 2026, brings together more than 30,000 domestic hotels and 3,500 international accommodation properties, 35 airlines and eight banks, aimed at travelers planning year-end holidays. The offers run across flights, hotels, homestays, holiday packages, buses, trains, cabs, tours and attractions, plus forex and visa services, on a single platform. The partner figures are MakeMyTrip's own, as of November 11, 2026.

The timing is deliberate, and the company says so. The sale is built to pull December bookings forward into mid-November, ahead of the peak season's rising prices and thinning availability. The domestic destination list reads like India's winter map: Coorg, the Andamans, Lakshadweep, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Rajasthan, the North-east and Goa. International offers cover Japan, Dubai, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom and other European destinations.

"With the second edition, our focus is to go beyond just another sale and give India's travellers the confidence to move from considering a holiday to booking one," said Raj Rishi Singh, MakeMyTrip's chief operating officer for corporate, flights, GCC and marketing. "We want 'Travel Ka Muhurat Sale' to become a fixed date in the calendar, when travellers know that they can plan their year-end break with a range of savings, and our partners see peak season demand early enough to prepare for it." The second half of that sentence is the business model: hotels and airlines get demand signals weeks earlier than the usual December scramble.

The loyalty mechanics are layered on top. Members of MMTBLACK, the company's loyalty program, received early access on November 13, a day ahead of the public launch, and get exclusive Black Friday deals every Friday during the campaign. All users can chase Daily Lightning Drops, limited-inventory deals available between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. OneCircle, MakeMyTrip's global rewards program for hotels and homestays launched earlier this year, adds further benefits on bookings made during the sale. Six new advertising films fronted by Alia Bhatt and Ranveer Singh, carrying the tagline "Ab toh Jaana Padega," promote the components from flights to outstation cabs.

The partner roster is the verifiable core of the offer. Airline partners include Air India, IndiGo, Air France, British Airways, Etihad Airways, Lufthansa, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Turkish Airlines and Virgin Atlantic. Hotel partners include Taj Hotels, ITC Hotels, The Leela, Lemon Tree Hotels, Royal Orchid Hotels, Club Mahindra, Sterling Holiday Resorts, Wyndham and Sarovar, with homestay and villa partners from amã Stays & Trails to StayVista and The Hosteller. The eight banking partners are Axis Bank, DBS Bank, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Punjab National Bank, RBL Bank and YES Bank. A sale this size is a distribution event as much as a discount event: for a traveler still deciding, the choice it actually offers is book in November at these terms, or book in December at whatever's left.

The attractions list shows the same bundling logic at the destination end. Ferrari World in the United Arab Emirates, Universal Studios and Madame Tussauds in Singapore, Mandai Wildlife Group's Night Safari and Singapore Zoo, and Sun World Ba Na Hills in Vietnam have all joined the campaign, so the sale reaches past the flight and the room into the days travelers actually spend. A platform that sells the ticket, the bed and the itinerary in one transaction is selling the whole trip, and the partner count is how it proves it can.

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