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About OpenStays
OpenStays, based in Bengaluru, is an AI-powered booking platform that helps homestays, hotels and resorts get direct bookings.
OpenStays provides booking software for homestays, hotels and resorts. Its WhatsApp AI works on the property’s own WhatsApp Business number to answer guest enquiries, share quotes and negotiate rates within limits set by the owner. Guests pay the property directly and OpenStays does not charge commission on bookings.
AT A GLANCE
Company facts
OpenStays Private Limited
29 April 2026
Sandeep Hegde (Co-founder), Pallavi Bhat (Co-founder) and Sunil Kumar KS (Co-founder and CTO)
Booking software and multilingual AI for homestays, hotels and resorts
Subscription and usage based billing for AI.
No commission on bookings.
DPIIT recognised AI startup
Bengaluru, India
RECOGNITION
Awards
Best Tourism Startup
Karnataka Tourism Awards 2026, given by the Department of Tourism, Government of Karnataka and the Karnataka Tourism Society. Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar and Tourism Minister K.J. George presented the awards on World Tourism Day. Co-founder and CTO Sunil Kumar KS received the award.
Tourism Innovation Award
Presented at the third Tourism Convention of the Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI). Co-founder Sandeep Hegde received the award on behalf of OpenStays.
IN THE NEWS
Press coverage
This five-month-old AI startup for hotels and homestays wins two tourism awards in Karnataka
Reports on OpenStays and the two tourism awards it won in Karnataka.
First Karnataka Tourism Awards honour 42 winners across Karnataka
Lists OpenStays among the winners of the first Karnataka Tourism Awards.
First ever Karnataka Tourism Awards honour 42 winners from across the state
Names OpenStays Private Limited as Best Tourism Startup.
AI startup OpenStays wins two awards for helping homestays get direct bookings
Reports on OpenStays’ two awards and its WhatsApp AI for homestays.
GIT alumnus’s AI startup OpenStays, backed by belagavi investors, wins two state tourism awards
A profile of OpenStays and its two tourism awards, with the founders on direct bookings and the AI that bargains for property owners.
Karavali malenadu tourism shines with ten Karnataka Tourism Awards
Names OpenStays Private Limited, whose founders hail from Uttara Kannada, as Best Tourism Startup.
Karnataka Tourism Awards 2026: ten honours for nine establishments from the coastal and malnad regions
Names OpenStays Private Limited, founded by young entrepreneurs from Uttara Kannada, as Best Tourism Startup.
Coastal and malnad regions win ten tourism honours at once
Lists OpenStays Private Limited, whose founders hail from Uttara Kannada, as winner of Best Tourism Startup.
Use AI, digital tech to make tourism more inclusive: minister k j george
Report on the Karnataka Tourism Awards 2026. The print edition names OpenStays Pvt Ltd as Best Tourism Startup.
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