India among fastest-growing alternative accommodation markets for Booking.com

Travel portal Booking.com has said India is among the fastest-growing markets in terms of addition of alternative accommodation platforms.

Of the total 8,80,000 listings in India, over 1,40,000 are in 'alternative accommodation' segment, the company said.

It witnessed a 68 per cent 'supply growth' in this category in 2017-18 in India. Listing denotes an individually bookable unit within a property.

Alternative accommodation segment covers home-stays, hostels, apartments, villas, cabins, tree-houses, boats and bed and breakfast facilities, among others. A large chunk of company's supply growth in these categories came from states of Goa, Karnataka and Kerala.

The figures were shared by Gillian Tans, chief executive of the company during an interaction with a select group of journalists at the company's headquarters in Amsterdam recently here.

Globally, 40 per cent of the company's active customers booked an alternative accommodation between February 2018-February 2019, it said.

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