ByHours

ByHours
Type of site
 Hotel Booking service
Available in 7 languages
Founded March 2012 (2012-03)
Headquarters Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Area served 20+ countries[1]
Key people Guillermo Gaspart
(Founder & Chairman)
Christian Rodríguez
(CEO & Founder)
Industry Travel, Hotel
Employees 35+
Website www.byhours.com
Commercial Yes
Current status Online

ByHours is a Spanish company and first microstays booking platform where hotels can be booked on the hourly basis.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

History

The company was founded in March 2012 by Christian Rodriguez and Guillermo Gaspart in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Byhours currently has more than 3,000 hotels across Europe[11][12] (971 hotels in Spain, 424 in Germany, 133 in France,[13] 100 in Colombia and 869 in Italy etc.).[14][15][16][7] The Company represents hotels in 20 countries in Europe, America, and Asia.[1] The app is available on Android and iOS.[17] The company raised €600K seed funding from Caixa Capital and Cabiedes Partners in July 2013.[18] In 2014, according to Travelmole, over 150,000 bookings were made through ByHours at over 1,500 hotels in Spain.[1][15][19][6][2][20][8][21] and in 2018, the company reached the first million hours booked in their platform.[22]

Funding

In July 2013, ByHours raised €600K seed funding from Caixa Capital and Cabiedes Partners.[18] In April 2014, the company received a funding 2.6 million from Spanish investors.[23] In August 2016, Byhours has also received 1.5 million from European funds[24] and in November 2017, the company was announced a of funding 3 million from new international investors as well as existing ones.[25]

Awards and recognition

  • Best Startup of the Year in 2012 Spain at Ecommerce awards.[5][2][26][27]
  • Received eAwards 2014 as the Best App of the Year in Spain.[2]
  • Won the first prize in the travel and tourism web shop category.[5][26][27]
  • Finalist of Bully Awards and Red Herring 2014.
  • Winner of 2017 Overall Awards - Best Business & Productivity App of 2017[28]
  • 2nd Best APP in #Startmeapp (Huawei and El Pais)[29]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "ByHours.com dinamiza hoteles de A.Latina al ofrecer habitaciones por horas". W Radio: Noticias en Colombia y el mundo (in Spanish). 2017-07-06.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Hutchinson, John (2015-04-20). "ByHours lets guests choose a London hotel for stays in three-hour blocks". Daily Mail.
  3. ↑ "La plataforma de reserva de habitaciones ByHours cierra una ronda de inversión de 3 millones". El Economista (in Spanish). 2017-12-11.
  4. ↑ GASTESI, AINTZANE (2017-12-11). "Byhours capta tres millones más e incorpora inversores de Abu Dabi". La Vanguardia (in Spanish).
  5. 1 2 3 Pizzetti, Elena (2016-11-18). "Hôtellerie 2.0: it's time for Temporary Rooms". Il Giornale (in Italian).
  6. 1 2 R, B (2015-04-16). "A quick in and out". The Economist.
  7. 1 2 Fischer, Joachim (2016-09-21). "BACK TO BUSINESS: STUNDEN SINNVOLL UND KOSTENEFFIZIENT NUTZEN". Tourism-Insider - Das wöchentliche Onlinemagazin (in German).
  8. 1 2 "ByHours, pour réserver des hôtels à l'heure". Deplacements Pros (in French).
  9. ↑ "ByHours, ora gli alberghi si prenotano giorno e notte per 3, 6 o 12 ore". ItaliaOggi (in Italian). 2016-11-10.
  10. ↑ DAVIS, MARTA (2015-04-11). "ByHours: la 'app' que vende habitaciones de hoteles por horas". Forbes (in Spanish).
  11. ↑ Smith, Andrea (2018-05-19). "Are microstays at hotels and gyms the new face of business travel?". Lonely Planet.
  12. ↑ "Spanish startup that's revolutionizing the hotel industry just launched in the MENA region!". Startup MGZN. 2018-04-12.
  13. ↑ "ByHours.com arrive en France". Tour Hebdo (in French). 2016-12-07.
  14. ↑ "Una plataforma catalana, d'hotels per hores, triomfa". Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (in Catalan). 2016-05-04.
  15. 1 2 "ByHours.com alla conquista dell'Italia". GuidaViaggi (in Italian). 2016-11-09.
  16. ↑ "Arriva in Italia ByHours.com, le camere d'hotel si vendono a ore". Travel Quotidiano: Giornale specializzato nel turismo (in Italian). 2016-11-09.
  17. ↑ "Nuova identità di marca e nuova App per Byhours". MediaKey.TV (in Italian). 2017-10-27.
  18. 1 2 "ByHours.com Raises €600k in Funding". FinSMEs. 2013-07-26.
  19. ↑ "Startup pitch: ByHours to go beyond hotels to offer meeting rooms in hourly slots". Tnooz. 2015-02-23.
  20. ↑ Woos, Ben (2015-01-04). "ByHours now lets 'business travellers' book a hotel room in London for 3, 6 or 12 hours". The Next Web.
  21. ↑ "Sbarca in Italia la piattaforma di prenotazioni alberghiere ByHours: gli hotel si prenotano per 3, 6 o 12 ore". Webitmag (in Italian). 2016-11-09.
  22. ↑ "La venta de habitaciones por horas, un filón que genera 5,5 millones de euros en el sector hotelero". ABC (in Spanish).
  23. ↑ el, escrito (2014-04-30). "Christian Rodríguez, ByHours: "nuestro modelo beneficia al hotelero"". TecnoHotel (in Spanish).
  24. ↑ "Byhours cambia el rumbo y gana fuerza en el exterior". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2017-06-06.
  25. ↑ "La plataforma de reserva de habitaciones ByHours cierra una ronda de inversión de 3 millones". El Economista (in Spanish).
  26. 1 2 "Arriva in Italia ByHours per utilizzare gli hotel per multipli di 3 ore". Travelnostop (in Italian). 2016-11-09.
  27. 1 2 "LE PRENOTAZIONI DI HOTEL "A ORE" DI BYHOURS SBARCANO IN ITALIA". Missionline (in Italian). 2016-11-10.
  28. ↑ "Winner of 2017 Overall Awards - Best Business & Productivity App of 2017". The Best Mobile App Awards.
  29. ↑ "Huawei y El País Retina premian una app de recetas". El País (in Spanish). 2018-01-26.


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