ZO Rooms


ZO Rooms was a budget hotel room aggregator in India. It was initiated by the founders of Zostel Akhil Malik, Dharmveer Singh Chouhan, Paavan Nanda, Tarun Tiwari, Chetan Singh Chauhan, Abhishek Bhutra and Siddharth Janghu in 2014. There were reports that ZO Rooms was acquired by rival OYO Rooms in an all-stock deal in December 2015, which was later denied by OYO. In a short span of time, ZO Rooms had a presence in cities like Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Goa,
Pune, Jodhpur, Chandigarh etc.

History

Zostel Hospitality Pvt. Ltd was established in August 2013 by seven co-founders Akhil Malik, Dharmveer Singh Chouhan, Paavan Nanda & Tarun Tiwari alumni of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Chetan Singh Chauhan & Abhishek Bhutra alumni of Indian Institute of Technology, BHU and Siddharth Janghu alumnus of MDI Gurgaon.
The founders of Zostel further dived into a new project known as ZO Rooms in November 2014, which is a low-budget, technology-driven hotel chain.

De-listed By Online Travel Agencies

Online travel agencies like Goibibo, Yatra, Stay Zilla blocked ZO Rooms along with Oyo Rooms in order to protect market share however still in operations with MakeMyTrip to cater needs of budget customer. In a recent interview with The Times of India, ZO Rooms co-founder Paavan Nanda said it's not a shocking transition as it was already expected.