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The information contained in this document is preliminary and is solely intended to facilitate the review with respect to the comments received from the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Yatra Online, Inc.

Notes to the consolidated financial statements for the period ended March 31, 2023

(Amount in INR thousands, except per share data and number of shares)

 

5. Segment information

 

For management purposes, the Group is organized into lines of business (LOBs) based on its products and services and has three reportable segments as mentioned below. The LOBs offer different products and services, and are managed separately because the nature of products and/ or methods used to distribute the services are different. For each of these LOBs, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) reviews internal management reports and . Accordingly, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is construed to be the Chief Operating Decision Maker (CODM). Segment revenue (determed as revenue as per IFRS plus customer inducement and acquisition costs) and adjusted margin (determined as segment revenue less service cost) from each LOB’s are reported and reviewed by the CODM on a monthly basis. Both Segment Revenue and Adjusted margin are non-GAAP measures used by the CODM in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance.

 

The following summary describes the operations in each of the Group’s reportable segments:

 

1. Air Ticketing: Through internet, mobile based platform and call-centers, the Group provides the facility to book and service international and domestic air tickets to ultimate customers through B2C (Business to Consumer), Business to Enterprise (B2E) and B2B2C (Business to Business to Consumer) channels. All these channels share similar characteristics as they are engaged in facilitation of booking of air tickets. Management believes that it is appropriate to aggregate these channels as one reporting segment due to the similarities in the nature of business.

 

2. Hotels and Packages: Through an internet and mobile based platform and call-centers, the group provides holiday packages and hotel reservations. For internal reporting purpose, the revenue related to Airline Ticketing issued as a component of group developed holiday package is assigned to Hotel and Package segment and is recorded on a gross basis. The hotel reservations form integral part of the holiday packages and, accordingly, management believes that it is appropriate to aggregate these services as one reportable segment due to similarities in the nature of services.

 

3. Other services primarily include the income from sale of rail and bus tickets and income from freight forwarding services. The Other services do not meet any of the quantitative thresholds to be a reportable segment for any of the periods presented in these consolidated financial statements. However, management has considered this as the reportable segment and disclosed it separately, since the management believes that information about the segment would be useful to users of the consolidated financial statements.

 

4. Other operations primarily include the advertisement income from hosting advertisements on our internet web-sites, income from sale of coupons and vouchers and income from facilitating website access to travel insurance companies. The operations do not meet any of the quantitative thresholds to be a reportable segment for any of the periods presented in these consolidated financial statements and therefore reported under “All other segments”.

 

Until June 30, 2021, for internal reporting purposes, Other Services was included under “All other segments”. Effective July 1, 2021, the Company has changed the composition of its operating segments which has resulted in “Other Services” segment now being reported as one of the reportable segments. Following this change in the composition of its reportable segments, the Company has restated the corresponding items of segment information for earlier periods.

 

Information about Reportable Segments:

 

   Reportable segments         
   Air Ticketing   Hotels and Packages   Other Services   All other segments**   Total 
   March 31 March 31   March 31 March 31   March 31 
 Particulars  2021   2022   2023   2021   2022   2023   2021   2022   2023   2021   2022   2023   2021   2022   2023 
                                                             
Segment revenue*   1,487,465    2,211,074    4,335,292    372,806    758,435    1,735,025    47,178    161,504    177,685    173,406    171,984    421,717    2,080,855    3,302,997    6,669,719 
Service cost   -    -    -    (22,276)   (159,284)   (669,099)   -    -    -    -    -    -    (22,276)   (159,284)   (669,099)
Adjusted Margin   1,487,465    2,211,074    4,335,292    350,530    599,151    1,065,926    47,178    161,504    177,685    173,406    171,984    421,717    2,058,579    3,143,713    6,000,620 
                                                                            
Other income                                                               132,045    158,648    152,520 
Customer inducement and acquisition costs(recorded as a reduction of revenue)***                                                               (809,587)   (1,313,621)   (2,842,455)
Personnel expenses                                                               (778,915)   (1,021,881)   (1,148,434)
Marketing and sales promotion expenses                                                               (79,584)   (124,147)   (336,472)
Other operating expenses                                                               (978,315)   (893,313)   (1,554,963)
Depreciation and amortization                                                               (749,480)   (308,153)   (190,152)
Impairment of goodwill                                                               (264,909)   -    - 
Impairment of loan to joint venture                                                               -    (72,719)   (1,000)
Share of loss of joint venture                                                               (3,962)   41,616    - 
Finance income                                                               81,604    47,816    28,944 
Finance cost                                                               (117,252)   (100,453)   (326,399)
Listing and related expenses                                                               -    (55,818)   (23,591)
Change in fair value of warrants gain                                                               378,994    32,756    - 
Loss before taxes                                                               (1,130,782)   (465,556)   (241,383)
Tax expense                                                               (64,096)   (16,906)   (46,788)
Loss for the period                                                               (1,194,878)   (482,462)   (288,172)
                                                                (1,194,878)   (482,462)   (288,172)

 

*There were no inter-segment revenue during the year ended March 31, 2022, March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2020. This amount constitues of ‘revenue from external customer’ and customer inducement and acquisition costs, for details refer below table on ‘Reconciliation of information on Reportable Segments to IFRS measures’.

 

**Primarily includes the advertisement income from hosting advertisements on our internet web-sites, income from sale of coupons and vouchers and income from facilitating website access to travel insurance companies. The operations do not meet any of the quantitative thresholds to be a reportable segment for any of the periods presented in these consolidated financial statements and therefore reported under “All other segments”.

 

 
 

 

Assets and liabilities are not identified to any reportable segments, since the Group uses them interchangeably across segments and, consequently, the Management believes that it is not practicable to provide segment disclosures relating to total assets and liabilities.

 

Reconciliation of information on Reportable Segments to IFRS measures:

 

   Air Ticketing   Hotels and Packages   Other Services   Others   Total 
   March 31   March 31   March 31   March 31   March 31 
Particulars  2021   2022   2023   2021   2022   2023   2021   2022   2023   2021   2022   2023   2021   2022   2023 
                                                             
Segment revenue   1,487,465    2,211,074    4,335,292    372,806    758,435    1,735,025    47,178    161,504    177,685    173,406    171,984    421,717    2,080,855    3,302,997    6,669,719 
Less: customer inducement and acquisition costs***   (594,426)   (1,060,600)   (2,555,320)   (199,409)   (237,695)   (263,756)   (15,752)   (15,326)   (23,380)   -    -    -    (809,587)   (1,313,621)   (2,842,455)
Revenue as per IFRS   893,039    1,150,474    1,779,972    173,397    520,740    1,471,270    31,426    146,178    154,305    173,406    171,984    421,717    1,271,268    1,989,376    3,827,264 

 

Notes: ***For purposes of reporting to the CODM, certain promotion expenses including upfront cash incentives, loyalty programs costs for customer inducement and acquisition costs for promoting transactions across various booking platforms, which are reported as a reduction of revenue, are added back to the respective segment revenue lines and marketing and sales promotion expenses. For reporting in accordance with IFRS, such expenses are recorded as a reduction from the respective revenue lines. Therefore, the reclassification excludes these expenses from the respective segment revenue lines and adds them to the marketing and sales promotion expenses.  

 

Geographical Information:

 

Given that Company’s products and services are available on a technology platform to customers globally, consequently, the necessary information to track accurate geographical location of customers is not available.

 

Non-current assets are disclosed based on respective physical location of the assets

 

   Non Current Assets* 
  

March 31, 2022

  

March 31, 2023

 
India   1,003,868    1,025,568 
Others   98    - 
Total   1,003,966    1,025,568 

 

* Non-current assets presented above represent property, plant and equipment, right-of-use assets and intangible assets and goodwill.

 

Major Customers:

 

Considering the nature of business, customers normally include individuals and business enterprises. Further, none of the corporate and other customers account for more than 10% or more of the Group’s revenues.

 

 
 

 

The information contained in this document is preliminary and is solely intended to facilitate the review with respect to the comments received from the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Old Disclosure

 

   Air Ticketing   Hotels and Packages   Other Services   Others   Total 
   Three months ended March 31, 
Amount in INR thousands (Unaudited)  2022   2023   2022   2023   2022   2023   2022   2023   2022   2023 
Revenue   1,150,474    1,779,972    520,740    1,471,270    146,178    154,305    171,984    421,718    1,989,376    3,827,265 
Add: Customer promotional expenses   1,060,600    2,555,320    237,695    263,756    15,326    23,380    -    -    1,313,621    2,842,456 
Service cost   -    -    -159,284    -669,098    -    -    -    -    -159,284    -669,098 
Other income   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    158,648    152,520 
Adjusted Revenue   2,211,074    4,335,292    599,151    1,065,928    161,504    177,685    171,984    421,718    3,302,361    6,153,143 

 

Updated Disclosure

 

   Air Ticketing   Hotels and Packages   Other Services   All other segments**   Total 
   Three months ended March 31, 
Amount in INR thousands (Unaudited)  2022   2023   2022   2023   2022   2023   2022   2023   2022   2023 
Revenue   1,150,474    1,779,972    520,740    1,471,270    146,178    154,305    171,984    421,718    1,989,376    3,827,265 
Add: Customer promotional expenses   1,060,600    2,555,320    237,695    263,756    15,326    23,380    -    -    1,313,621    2,842,456 
Service cost   -    -    -159,284    -669,098    -    -    -    -    -159,284    -669,098 
Other income#   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    - 
Adjusted Margin   2,211,074    4,335,292    599,151    1,065,928    161,504    177,685    171,984    421,718    3,143,713    6,000,623 

 

# The company proposes to remove this line item from the disclosure.