RoomsTonite Partners with Tripvillas to Offer Last Minute Homestays and Expands to International Destinations

Business Wire India
RoomsTonite, a first-of-its-kind, last minute hotel booking app, announced its partnership with Singapore based Tripvillas, Asia’s leading vacation home rental specialist. This is a strategic move by Roomstonite, in its efforts to expand its operations into Homestays and holiday homes; which is seen as a fast growing segment, in addition to making its presence felt in global markets such as Singapore, Bali, Thailand, Srilanka, etc.

As a part of the tie-up, the homestay aggregator Tripvillas have listed over 500 of its properties across India for last minute inventory management on the RoomsTonite platform. The collaboration will aim to provide convenient and well curated stay options, along with a much larger range and variety of destinations for its customers. The current locations for last minute booking include some of the best beach homes and hills station villas at prices ranging from Rs.700 to Rs.25,000 per night.

Speaking on the partnership, Roshan D’Silva, CEO, Tripvillas said, “Young people and Families today prefer homestays over hotels and resorts for their weekend getaways. It’s a win-win situation for home stay owners as well as for people who want to book homestays at the last moment. Generally, 25% of the properties go unutilized and this represents a significant loss of income for our home owners. By this Partnership with RoomsTonite we aim to bridge this gap and we hope to offer an additional 2000 rooms on the platform by January 2016.”

Commenting on the development, Suresh John, Founder and CEO, RoomsTonite adds, “We are happy to have partnered with Tripvillas. At RoomsTonite we have always believed in providing the best of experience to our customers by providing an extended range of last minute stay booking options. By adding more rooms on our platform, these volumes are bound to further reduce prices while providing a distinct value proposition. We also find a lot of synergy with Tripvillas as we plan to move ahead and transform the impulse booking phenomena to cover other markets and segments.”

About RoomsTonite

RoomsTonite is a mobile-app only platform that helps customers with last-minute hotel booking, while ensuring quality rooms at value for money pricing. The app enables users to book hotels for the same day or up to three days/nights including the booking day.

Founded by hospitality and travel industry veteran Suresh John, the Bengaluru headquartered RoomsTonite Bookings Pvt. Ltd. is changing the last-minute hotel booking model in India. The app becomes even more useful for those travelers whose travel plans get firmed up at the last minute. The app has been meticulously designed to enable customers to enjoy the lowest rates when booking a hotel room at short notice.

RoomsTonite has currently tied up with more than 3500 hotels spread across 325+ locations in India. The marketplace model allows hotels to sell their unsold inventories at the last minute. RoomsTonite offers hotels under three categories – Luxury, Premium and Comfort. The direct connectivity with hotels ensures a seamless room booking experience at every step.

About Tripvillas

Tripvillas is Asia's leading holiday rental company connecting Travelers to holiday homes in most marquee destinations in Asia. Staying in a holiday home is a win-win proposition with the owners benefitting from yields much better than long term rentals and travelers getting a more luxurious, value for money experience as compared to staying in a hotel. Tripvillas - founded in 2010 by Roshan D'Silva is the pioneer in holiday rentals in Asia and also owns Holiday Home Times - the trusted resource for those looking to invest into holiday real estate. The 300,000 holiday homes are bookable on www.tripvillas.com, dedicated iPhone and Android apps and over 30 marquee affiliates across the world.