After being trained as a hotelier and working with an online booking startup, Amit launched RedDoorz, a budget-hotel booking and branding service, in Indonesia. RedDoorz now has branded hotels in the Philippines and Singapore and is looking to expand. Amit has done his homework, and it shows. He understands his market and has created incentivized systems to support a win-win-win experience among the hotels, the hotel guests, and RedDoorz.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
- About RedDoorz
- The type of accommodations that are part of the RedDoorz brand
- About the Indonesian domestic travel market
- About the onboarding process for RedDoorz-branded hotels
- About RedDoorz’s app, customer incentives, and use of machine learning
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LINKS FROM TODAY’S EPISODE
- Read the full transcript from Amit’s interview
- Find Amit on Twitter and LinkedIn
- RedDoorz
- RedDoorz on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn
DETAILED SHOW NOTES
- (1:08) Amit’s introduction of RedDoorz
- (1:53) Amit’s self-introduction
- (4:41) More history about RedDoorz and why Amit chose to launch in Indonesia
- (7:25) The profile of the accommodations using the RedDoorz brand
- (10:21) Amit describes the onboarding process for a RedDoorz hotel
- (16:08) Amit explains RedDoorz’s franchising model
- (18:48) Amit explains the booking process, customer incentives, reviews, and gives statistics on what devices RedDoorz customers are using
- (26:00) RedDoorz’s plans as they enter round B
- (28:10) Amit’s 5 to 10-year forecast for Southeast Asia’s travel industry
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