\"A hotel can't give you the flavour of local life that homestays can,\" says Ankur Varman, AVP - Institutional Equity sales at SBI Capital Markets

In his new role at the board, Aditya will focus on five key areas, including safety and security, customer experience, corporate governance, revenue management and stakeholder communications

Ujjivan Small Finance Bank IPO: Bids for the issue can be placed for a minimum of 400 equity shares and in multiples of 400 shares thereafter

Facial recognition at Chaayos sparks calls for data protection law, around 12 lakh new jobs created in September 2019, Honda reopens Manesar factory after 2 weeks and more news on News Blast.

Zee Entertainment share price falls over 9% after Subhash Chandra steps down as chairmanZee Entertainment share price fell in early trade today after its chairman Subhash Chandra stepped down with immediate effect on Monday. Zee Entertainment share price lost 9.06% to Rs 312.50 compared to the previous close of Rs 343.65 on BSE. Zee Entertainment stock has been  losing for the last two days and fallen 6.12% during the period. Subhash Chandra resigns as Zee Entertainment Chairma...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its various measures to encourage retail participation has extended access to primary auctions to SDLs

Ritesh Agarwal-led hospitality startup posted a five-time jump in its total expenditure at Rs 9,027.53 crore in FY19 compared with Rs 1,835.38 crore in FY18

Hundereds of hotels have severed relations with Oyo following several conflicts. The hospitality chain has denied such reports, calling the numbers incorrect and inflated

Experts believe that hotel operators are likely to increase room tariffs so that the outgo for customers remains in the same range as before the GST rate cuts

A hotelier, who owns Roxel Inn, has alleged that the firm did not pay rent for rooms for the past five months

With its smart bus brand, Intrcity, RailYatri follows an OYO model - while the company is responsible for customer acquisition and owns the experience, it doesn't own the asset

The SoftBank-Oyo partnership, Oyo Hotels Japan, opened hotels in over 50 Japanese cities, including Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto

When Airbnb was founded in 2008, the founders struggled to raise money because back then, venture capitalists had the same questions and doubts around trust.

The rooms-aggregator-turned-hotel-chain OYO, in a press statement, said that a significant part of the funds will be diverted towards continuing growth in OYO's fastest-growing US market, in addition to strengthening the start-up's position in the vacation rentals business in Europe.

A new study has found that demonetisation led to a significant decline in cash, SC restrains authorities from cutting any more trees in Mumbai's Aarey and more on News Blast.

As part of its Series F funding round, RA Hospitality Holdings will infuse around $700 million as primary capital in the company, while existing investors SoftBank Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia India will invest the remaining $800 million

Demonetisation caused 3 percentage point decline in jobs, economic activity, says new studyA new study has found that demonetisation led to a significant decline in cash, which lowered India's economic growth and led to a reduction in jobs by at least 2-3 percentage points in the quarter of the note ban. The paper, 'Cash and the Economy: Evidence from India's Demonetisation', written by Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, an associate professor of economics at Harvard; Gita Gopinath, the Econ...

Oyo charges hotels a roughly 20% franchise fee on room revenues when hotels join its network, but some Indian hotel operators say the startup often ends up taking half or more of revenues through fees that were not initially disclosed.

Flipkart's Big Billion Days vs Amazon's Great Indian Festival: Amazon Prime members can start early shopping from 12 noon on 28 September, while the Flipkart Plus members will get access from 28 September, at 8:00 pm

This is the second acquisition by Reliance Jio-owned Haptik in the last three months. Earlier in July, Mumbai-based Haptik acqui-hired Convrg, a Los Angeles-based startup that develops chatbots, to serve customers in North America