RedDoorz founder and chief executive Amit Saberwal describes his four-year-old budget hotel online booking startup as a “combination of Uber and Marriott”.
The Singapore-based firm is like Uber Technologies in the sense that the hotels listed on its app are owned by individual proprietors, just like many drivers own their cars and pick up bookings through the US ride-hailing giant. It is like Marriott International, the American hotel chain operator and franchiser, on the hospitality side because it helps take care of finding customers for the owners, according to Saberwal.