Ixigo Announces "Super Value Hotel Awards"

New Delhi, January 20, 2016 (Newswire.com) - ixigo, India’s leading travel search app has announced its first-ever “Super Value Hotel Awards” to recognize the best premium budget hotels across 18 Indian cities. In November last year, ixigo had launched Super Value Hotels by curating 2500 budget hotels across 80 cities in India with room-rates ranging from Rs. 599 to Rs. 2499 by choosing the more reliable ones in terms of a good overall experience and a minimum set of amenities such as clean beds, air-conditioning, TV, a good location, room-service, breakfast, wi-fi and more.

Aloke Bajpai, Co-Founder & CEO, ixigo said - “These awards are the Oscars of the budget hotels category! We looked at multiple attributes for each and every hotel from a curated set of 2500 super value hotels across 18 cities and narrowed down to just 180 hotels for the Super Value Hotel Awards. The team ran through a comprehensive checklist that covered guest reviews & ratings, amenities and comfort provided to guests, cleanliness and hygiene standards, location, service quality, wi-fi, provision of air conditioning, TV and breakfast options. The list of winners for 2015-2016 include a mix of independent hotels and select properties of branded budget hotel chains such as Oyo rooms, Wudstay, Vista Rooms, etc.”

ixigo’s Super Value Hotel Awards are the industry’s first recognition and rewards for excellence in the budget hotels category, and the industry has been appreciative of this move. Some of the award winning hotels include -- OYO Premium MG Road - Agra, Jaipur Inn - Jaipur, Abad Metro - Kochi and WudStay Ameerpet - Hyderabad. Here is the complete list of the Super Value Hotels Award winners.

“We are really happy to have been named for these awards. We anticipate an increase in trust from our clients when they see recognition from a brand name such as ixigo,” said Jasminder Sawhney, Director Operations, Hotel Amar Yatri Niwas, Agra. “We thank ixigo for choosing us for this award. It is very rare that the efforts of budget hotels are recognised. We are truly dedicated to providing guests a comfortable stay in pocket friendly tariffs,” added Amit Saini, Manager, La Casa Haridwar.

Spread across the country, winning hotels have been named across a large number of cities such as Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Agra, Chennai, Haridwar, Srinagar, Kochi, Pune, Gangtok, Jaipur, New Delhi, Udaipur, Mysore, Manali, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Munnar and Goa.

About ixigo:

Launched in 2007 in Gurgaon, India by Aloke Bajpai and Rajnish Kumar, ixigo is India’s leading travel search marketplace, connecting over 60 million travellers with content & deals from over 25,000 online & offline travel & hospitality businesses. ixigo aggregates and compares real-time travel information, prices & availability for flights, trains, buses, cabs, hotels, packages & destinations. ixigo’s mission is to simplify the lives of travellers by building apps that make their travel search and planning hassle-free and it has won several awards in its journey, including the TiE-Lumis Entrepreneurial Excellence Award and the NASSCOM Top-10 Emerge Award. ixigo’s investors include SAIF Partners, MakeMyTrip & Micromax. Join ixigo on Facebook and Twitter for more updates.

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