Oyo Rooms said that it has taken the hotel off its platform and that it has ‘neither received or given any such guidelines’.

From December 31, 2024, hotel booking app OYO has changed the rules for booking rooms. Which is very important to know, especially for unmarried couples. Who often book rooms through Oyo.

The OYO-ZO Rooms' battle is now getting fiercer and the ball is steadily moving towards OYO’s court. Reportedly, a Gurugram-based court has rejected an arbitration petition filed by budget hotel ...

The Hindu reported that in 2019, a 24-year-old Kashmiri doctor was denied a room at a hotel, registered in the Oyo platform, in south Delhi’s Jasola Vihar area.

It all started in early January, when OYO Rooms issued “new check-in directives” for its partner accommodations in the northwestern city of Meerut, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Delhi ...

OYO, which was founded by was founded Thiel Fellow Ritesh Agarwal, has a network that spans 230 cities primarily in India, where it offers some 70,000 rooms, but also Malaysia and Nepal.

Online platforms for budget hotels in India have been in the news. Oyo Rooms is the ‘oldest startup’ in the space which was started as Oravel in 2011 by the then 18-year-old Ritesh Agarwal.

OYO Rooms, the India-based budget hotel network that’s backed by SoftBank’s Vision fund, has prioritized expansion into China this year but that’s not all it’s up to.

Ritesh Agarwal, OYO Rooms' 22-year-old founder and CEO, talks about Uber a lot and feels a kinship with some of the disruptive aspects of the on-demand ride service.

It is a top-up that came later but part of the same round (valuation) - so total amount is $250 million, plus $10 million. Taken altogether, Oyo Rooms has raised $446 million, to date.