{"id":38366,"date":"2019-04-01T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T22:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38366"},"modified":"2019-04-01T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T22:22:58","slug":"airbnb-invests-in-indias-biggest-hotel-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38366","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb invests in India&#8217;s biggest hotel company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi (CNN Business)<\/cite>Airbnb is investing in an Indian hotel chain that wants<strong> <\/strong>to become the world&#8217;s biggest within five years. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The company<strong> <\/strong>took part in<strong> <\/strong>the latest funding round at OYO, one of India&#8217;s most valuable startups, it said Monday. Neither Airbnb nor OYO<strong> <\/strong>would comment on the size of the investment, but it could be as much as $200 million, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/airbnb-mulls-big-investment-in-indian-hotel-startup\" target=\"_blank\">media reports<\/a>. OYO was valued at $5 billion in 2018. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Emerging markets like India and China are some of Airbnb&#8217;s fastest-growing, with our growth increasingly powered by tourism to and from these markets,&#8221; Greg Greeley, president of Homes at Airbnb, said in a statement. &#8220;In many of these markets, OYO is empowering local hospitality entrepreneurs to provide more options to more travelers,&#8221; he added.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (CNN Business)Airbnb is investing in an Indian hotel chain that wants to become the world&#8217;s biggest within five years. The company took part in the latest funding round at OYO, one of India&#8217;s most valuable startups, it said Monday. Neither Airbnb nor OYO would comment on the size of the investment, but it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}