“Thanks to over one million individuals who booked greater than half one million nights with us this New Years. For all of us at Oyo, it was a busy NY (new 12 months),” he wrote in his put up on LinkedIn.
He additional mentioned, “2021 reserving was (the) highest amongst 90 pandemic weekends since April 2020 with whole buyer bookings globally on our platform price (round) Rs 110 crore (USD 14.6 million) over the weekend.”
Agarwal mentioned rooms booked on NY weekend of December 30-31 in 2021 stood at 5.03 lakh as in comparison with 1.02 lakh 2016.
Stating that for a lot of, journey has all the time been “an impulsive emotion and choice”, he mentioned Oyo’s knowledge vindicated it.
The proportion of Oyo bookings made on the identical day for New Yr’s eve for December 31, 2021 was 58 per cent, it was at 61 per cent in 2020, 57 per cent in 2019, 63 per cent in 2018 and 55 per cent in 2017, he wrote.
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Reflecting on the expansion the tech-driven hospitality chain has grown, Agarwal mentioned in 2021 Oyo has established presence in over 10,000 cities with round 1.59 lakh storefronts in 35 international locations. In 2015, it had a presence in 127 cities with 1,229 storefronts.
Pointing to the recent surge in COVID-19 circumstances, he mentioned, “Allow us to all brace for what 2022 has in retailer for us. And whereas 2020 and 2021 have been arduous hitting, we now have seen that we are going to all take each alternative to take pleasure in what all of us love – travelling and exploring the world round us.”