OYO rooms reverses progressive policy, now requires marital proof for couples

CHENNAI: In 2016, the hotel room aggregator OYO Rooms announced that it would offer a couple-friendly mode on its website, enabling unmarried duos to make bookings without worrying about whether they would be turned away at Reception, as has long been a sociocultural norm. The mode would only show hotels that did not have antiquated policies requiring valid documents as marital proof. Now, the company has begun to reverse its progressive stand.