According to company founder and group CEO Ritesh Agarwal, over one million people booked over 5 lakh nights for New Year celebrations with hospitality chain OYO, bringing in around Rs 110 crore over the weekend on its global platform. Booking done.
In a social media post, he said 58% of bookings for New Year’s Eve were done on the same day, reflecting “impulsive emotion and judgment” related to travel, in keeping with a trend seen since December 2017. Is.
In his post on the LinkedIn social platform, he wrote, “For all of us at Oyo, it was busy New York (New Years).”
He further added, “Bookings for 2021 were the highest among the 90 pandemic weekends since April 2020, with total customer bookings globally on our platform (approximately) ₹110 crore ($14.6 million) over the weekend. Mr Agarwal said rooms booked on the NY weekend of December 30-31 in 2021 were 5.03 lakh compared to 1.02 lakh in 2016.
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