{"id":109,"date":"2026-08-18T07:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yavasa.co.in\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2026-08-18T07:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:19:22","slug":"small-hotel-guest-house-industry-statistics-in-india-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yavasa.co.in\/blog\/small-hotel-guest-house-industry-statistics-in-india-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Hotel &#038; Guest House Industry Statistics in India (2026)\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ask five research firms how big India&#8217;s hotel industry is and\u00a0you&#8217;ll\u00a0get five different numbers, anywhere from\u00a0$28 billion\u00a0to\u00a0$65 billion, depending on\u00a0what&#8217;s\u00a0counted. That spread\u00a0isn&#8217;t\u00a0a mistake. It reflects a market that is genuinely two industries stitched together: a small, visible, branded chain sector, and a massive, largely invisible independent sector that runs guest houses,\u00a0dharamshalas\u00a0and budget lodges across every pilgrimage town, highway junction and tier-2 city in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This page collects the most-cited, most-sourced statistics on that second, larger, less-discussed part of the industry, the independent and budget accommodation segment that makes up the majority of India&#8217;s hotel rooms. Every number below is traced to a named research firm, government report or industry survey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key Statistics\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you only remember eight numbers about India&#8217;s small hotel sector, remember these. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Independent hotels held 56.45% of India&#8217;s hospitality market share in 2025<\/strong>, while branded chains are expanding faster from a smaller base. (Source: Mordor Intelligence, India Hospitality Market Report, 2026)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The independent\/unbranded segment accounts for roughly 70% of all hotel rooms available in India.<\/strong> (Source: ResearchAndMarkets, Assessment of the Hotel Industry in India) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>About 27% of the industry is concentrated in smaller cities and towns, where the market is almost entirely unorganized and independent-hotel-led.<\/strong> (Source: ResearchAndMarkets) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>India recorded 2.95 billion domestic tourist visits in 2024, up 17.5% over 2023<\/strong>, and domestic travelers, not foreign tourists, are the customer base most small hotels\u00a0actually serve. (Source: Ministry of Tourism, India Tourism Data Compendium, 2025 edition)\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Domestic tourist visits have grown from 1.2 billion in 2014 to 2.5 billion in 2023<\/strong>, roughly doubling in under a decade. (Source: Ministry of Tourism, Government of India) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>OTA commissions in India typically run 15% to 30% of every booking<\/strong>, with MakeMyTrip and Goibibo together controlling more than 60% of India&#8217;s online hotel bookings. (Source: multiple hotel-tech industry guides, 2026) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Effective 22 September 2025, GST on hotel rooms priced \u20b91,000\u2013\u20b97,500 a night dropped from 12% to 5%<\/strong>, and rooms under \u20b91,000 remain fully exempt. (Source: 56th GST Council meeting, Notification No. 15\/2025-Central Tax) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A 2023 Ministry of Tourism-linked survey found 48% of small hotels in India lack the infrastructure to support advanced property management software<\/strong>, the single biggest reason technology adoption stays low in this segment. (Source: cited in Business Research Insights, PMS Market Report) <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Market Size: Two Industries, One Number\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>India&#8217;s hospitality market is valued between $28 billion and $65 billion depending on scope, but the split that matters is by ownership type, not total size.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Independent hotels, the guest houses, family-run lodges, and unbranded budget properties that make up Yavasa&#8217;s customer base are not a small side category. They are the majority of the industry by room count, even though they get a small fraction of the media and investment attention that goes to chain hotels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Segment<\/strong> <\/td><td><strong>Share<\/strong> <\/td><td><strong>Source<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Independent hotels, market share by value <\/td><td>56.45% (2025) <\/td><td>Mordor Intelligence <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Independent\/unbranded, share of room supply <\/td><td>~70% <\/td><td>ResearchAndMarkets <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Branded\/traditional hotels, share of room supply <\/td><td>~5% <\/td><td>ResearchAndMarkets <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Chain hotels, forecast growth rate <\/td><td>16.76% CAGR through 2031 <\/td><td>Mordor Intelligence <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>India online accommodation market <\/td><td>$9.85B (2026) \u2192 $15.94B (2031) <\/td><td>Mordor Intelligence <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The pattern across every research firm is consistent: branded chains are growing faster in percentage terms, but they are growing from a base of roughly 5% of total room supply. The independent sector remains where most of India actually sleeps when it travels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Domestic Tourism Is the Real Demand Driver\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign tourist arrivals get the headlines. Domestic travelers are what actually fill small hotel rooms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>India logged 2.95 billion domestic tourist visits in 2024, a 17.5% jump over 2023, more than 140 times the 20.57 million international arrivals recorded the same year.<\/strong> (Ministry of Tourism, India Tourism Data Compendium, 2025) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Domestic visits have grown from\u00a0roughly 1.2\u00a0billion in 2014 to 2.5 billion in 2023, and to 2.95 billion in 2024. (Ministry of Tourism)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Uttar Pradesh led all states with 647 million domestic visits in 2024, followed by Tamil Nadu at 307 million. (Ministry of Tourism) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pilgrimage travel is a major share of this volume, properties near sites like Ambaji, Dwarka and Somnath see demand spikes tied to specific festival calendars rather than a steady tourist season, which is why occupancy management around events like Navratri and Diwali is a distinct operational problem for this segment, not a generic one. \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the core mismatch in how the industry is usually covered: most hospitality reporting focuses on the ~9.95 million foreign leisure travelers, while the market that small hotel owners actually compete for is nearly 300 times larger and almost entirely domestic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>OTA Dependence: The Real Cost to Small Hotels\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Online travel agencies solved a discovery problem for small hotels. They created a margin problem in exchange. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>OTA commission rates in India typically range from 15% to 30% per booking, and MakeMyTrip plus Goibibo together control more than 60% of India&#8217;s online hotel booking market.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Platform<\/strong> <\/td><td><strong>Typical commission in India<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>MakeMyTrip \/ Goibibo <\/td><td>15\u201325% <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Booking.com <\/td><td>15\u201320% (up to 20% for Preferred Partner) <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Agoda <\/td><td>15\u201322% <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Airbnb <\/td><td>~15.5% host-only fee (default since late 2025) <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>OYO <\/td><td>20\u201325% <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For a hotel doing meaningful OTA volume, this is not a rounding error. Industry guides commonly cite a 50-room property with 60% OTA-driven bookings losing well over \u20b915\u201316 lakh a year to commissions alone, money that a direct-booking and phone\/WhatsApp-based reservation flow can partly recover, which is precisely the gap small-hotel software is built to close. A commonly cited healthy benchmark is keeping OTA dependency in the 40\u201355% range; above 70%, a property is one commission increase away from a profitability problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>GST Reform: What Changed for Budget Hotels in 2025\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Effective 22 September 2025, the GST Council restructured hotel room taxation into three slabs: nil below \u20b91,000, 5% (without input tax credit) for \u20b91,001\u2013\u20b97,500, and 18% (with input tax credit) above \u20b97,500.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Room tariff (declared, per night)<\/strong> <\/td><td><strong>GST rate<\/strong> <\/td><td><strong>Change from previous<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Below \u20b91,000 <\/td><td>0% (exempt) <\/td><td>No change <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\u20b91,001 \u2013 \u20b97,500 <\/td><td>5%, no ITC <\/td><td>Down from 12% <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Above \u20b97,500 <\/td><td>18%, full ITC <\/td><td>No change <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This directly benefits the segment Yavasa serves: budget hotels, guest houses and dharamshalas almost entirely fall in the \u20b91,000\u2013\u20b97,500 bracket, where the tax rate more than halved. The trade-off is that this slab does not allow input tax credit, so the net benefit depends on each property&#8217;s cost structure a detail many small hotel owners are still catching up on. (Source: 56th GST Council meeting, Notification No. 15\/2025-Central Tax, effective 22 September 2025) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Technology Gap\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the least-covered number in the industry, and arguably the most consequential for how the next five years play out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A 2023 survey linked to the Ministry of Tourism found 48% of small hotels in India lack the infrastructure to support advanced property management software,<\/strong> cited via a Business Research Insights PMS market report. This is a secondary citation rather than a primary government dataset, so treat the precise figure as indicative rather than exact, but it is directionally consistent with every hotel-tech vendor&#8217;s account of the market: small and independent properties in India are still disproportionately run on paper registers, spreadsheets, and WhatsApp coordination between staff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The consequence shows up operationally, not just in adoption percentages: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A typical independent Indian property now takes bookings from 2\u20133 OTAs plus walk-ins and phone calls. Without\u00a0synced\u00a0inventory across all of them, every\u00a0additional\u00a0channel added multiplies double-booking risk. (Hotel-tech industry guides, 2026)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Globally, only about 20% of hotels use CRM tools to manage guest relationships, representing an estimated 32% of hotel-room supply, a gap that widens further down-market. (Skift, 2023 Hotel Tech Benchmark) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>86% of hoteliers who do adopt technology identify a PMS as their single most critical tool, ahead of revenue management systems and channel managers. (Etelligens, citing 2022 hotelier survey data) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Put together: the segment with the most room supply, the fastest-growing demand base (domestic pilgrimage and leisure travel), and the biggest tax relief from the 2025 GST reform is also the segment furthest behind on the basic software that prevents double bookings and lost guest records. That gap is the market small-hotel-focused apps like Yavasa exist to close, not a coincidence, but the direct read of the data above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Small Hotel &amp; Guest House Industry Statistics in India (2026)\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d7gTyEhunrI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Frequently Asked Questions\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q. How big is India&#8217;s independent hotel sector?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A. Independent hotels held 56.45% of India&#8217;s hospitality market share by value in 2025 (Mordor Intelligence), and the independent\/unbranded segment accounts for roughly 70% of total room supply nationwide (ResearchAndMarkets), making it the majority of the industry by rooms, even though branded chains get most investment and media coverage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q. How much do OTAs\u00a0actually cost\u00a0a small hotel in India?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A. Commission rates typically run 15\u201330% per booking depending on the platform. For a property with significant OTA volume, this commonly totals well over \u20b910\u201315 lakh a year in commissions alone, a cost that direct-booking channels and WhatsApp\/phone-based reservations can partially offset. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q. What is the new GST rate for budget hotels in 2025\u201326?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A. Rooms priced \u20b91,001\u2013\u20b97,500 a night now\u00a0attract\u00a05% GST (down from 12%), with rooms under \u20b91,000 remaining exempt, effective 22 September 2025 under the 56th GST Council&#8217;s reforms. This directly benefits\u00a0most budget hotels and guest houses, which fall in this bracket.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q. Why is technology adoption low among small hotels in India?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A. A 2023 survey linked to the Ministry of Tourism found 48% of small hotels lack the infrastructure to support advanced PMS software, commonly cost, complexity, and staff training barriers rather than lack of need, since the same properties report rising overbooking risk as they add more OTA channels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sources<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ministry of Tourism, Government of\u00a0India\u00a0:\u00a0India\u00a0Tourism Data Compendium, 2025 edition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mordor Intelligence : India Hospitality Market Report, 2026 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ResearchAndMarkets : Assessment of the Hotel Industry in India, 2016\u20132024 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>56th GST Council Meeting : Notification No. 15\/2025-Central Tax (Rate) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Business Research Insights : Property Management System (PMS) in Hotel Market Report <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Skift : 2023 Research Hotel Tech Benchmark <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Various hotel-technology industry guides on OTA commission structures (2025\u20132026 editions), including OnlineHotelier Insights, Little Hotelier, and Apycue \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You may also like :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yavasa.co.in\/blog\/best-hotel-management-tips-for-hotel-owners\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/yavasa.co.in\/blog\/best-hotel-management-tips-for-hotel-owners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Best Hotel\u00a0Management\u00a0Tips for Hotel Owners\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"is-default-size wp-block-site-logo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yavasa.co.in\/blog\/\" class=\"custom-logo-link\" rel=\"home\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/yavasa.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-yavasa-logo-scaled-1.png\" class=\"custom-logo\" alt=\"Yavasa Blog\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yavasa.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-yavasa-logo-scaled-1.png 200w, https:\/\/yavasa.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-yavasa-logo-scaled-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/yavasa.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-yavasa-logo-scaled-1-16x16.png 16w, https:\/\/yavasa.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-yavasa-logo-scaled-1-32x32.png 32w, https:\/\/yavasa.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-yavasa-logo-scaled-1-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/yavasa.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-yavasa-logo-scaled-1-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask five research firms how big India&#8217;s hotel industry is and\u00a0you&#8217;ll\u00a0get five different numbers, anywhere from\u00a0$28 billion\u00a0to\u00a0$65 billion, depending on\u00a0what&#8217;s\u00a0counted. That spread\u00a0isn&#8217;t\u00a0a mistake. It reflects a market that is genuinely two industries stitched together: a small, visible, branded chain sector, and a massive, largely invisible independent sector that runs guest houses,\u00a0dharamshalas\u00a0and budget lodges across every pilgrimage town, highway junction and tier-2 city in the country.\u00a0 This page collects the most-cited, most-sourced statistics on that second, larger, less-discussed part of the industry, the independent and budget accommodation segment that makes up the majority of India&#8217;s hotel rooms. Every number below is traced to a named research firm, government report or industry survey. Key Statistics\u00a0 If you only remember eight numbers about India&#8217;s small hotel sector, remember these. Market Size: Two Industries, One Number\u00a0 India&#8217;s hospitality market is valued between $28 billion and $65 billion depending on scope, but the split that matters is by ownership type, not total size. Independent hotels, the guest houses, family-run lodges, and unbranded budget properties that make up Yavasa&#8217;s customer base are not a small side category. They are the majority of the industry by room count, even though they get a small fraction of the media and investment attention that goes to chain hotels. Segment Share Source Independent hotels, market share by value 56.45% (2025) Mordor Intelligence Independent\/unbranded, share of room supply ~70% ResearchAndMarkets Branded\/traditional hotels, share of room supply ~5% ResearchAndMarkets Chain hotels, forecast growth rate 16.76% CAGR through 2031 Mordor Intelligence India online accommodation market $9.85B (2026) \u2192 $15.94B (2031) Mordor Intelligence The pattern across every research firm is consistent: branded chains are growing faster in percentage terms, but they are growing from a base of roughly 5% of total room supply. The independent sector remains where most of India actually sleeps when it travels. Domestic Tourism Is the Real Demand Driver\u00a0 Foreign tourist arrivals get the headlines. Domestic travelers are what actually fill small hotel rooms. India logged 2.95 billion domestic tourist visits in 2024, a 17.5% jump over 2023, more than 140 times the 20.57 million international arrivals recorded the same year. (Ministry of Tourism, India Tourism Data Compendium, 2025) This is the core mismatch in how the industry is usually covered: most hospitality reporting focuses on the ~9.95 million foreign leisure travelers, while the market that small hotel owners actually compete for is nearly 300 times larger and almost entirely domestic. OTA Dependence: The Real Cost to Small Hotels\u00a0 Online travel agencies solved a discovery problem for small hotels. They created a margin problem in exchange. OTA commission rates in India typically range from 15% to 30% per booking, and MakeMyTrip plus Goibibo together control more than 60% of India&#8217;s online hotel booking market. Platform Typical commission in India MakeMyTrip \/ Goibibo 15\u201325% Booking.com 15\u201320% (up to 20% for Preferred Partner) Agoda 15\u201322% Airbnb ~15.5% host-only fee (default since late 2025) OYO 20\u201325% For a hotel doing meaningful OTA volume, this is not a rounding error. Industry guides commonly cite a 50-room property with 60% OTA-driven bookings losing well over \u20b915\u201316 lakh a year to commissions alone, money that a direct-booking and phone\/WhatsApp-based reservation flow can partly recover, which is precisely the gap small-hotel software is built to close. A commonly cited healthy benchmark is keeping OTA dependency in the 40\u201355% range; above 70%, a property is one commission increase away from a profitability problem. GST Reform: What Changed for Budget Hotels in 2025\u00a0 Effective 22 September 2025, the GST Council restructured hotel room taxation into three slabs: nil below \u20b91,000, 5% (without input tax credit) for \u20b91,001\u2013\u20b97,500, and 18% (with input tax credit) above \u20b97,500. Room tariff (declared, per night) GST rate Change from previous Below \u20b91,000 0% (exempt) No change \u20b91,001 \u2013 \u20b97,500 5%, no ITC Down from 12% Above \u20b97,500 18%, full ITC No change This directly benefits the segment Yavasa serves: budget hotels, guest houses and dharamshalas almost entirely fall in the \u20b91,000\u2013\u20b97,500 bracket, where the tax rate more than halved. The trade-off is that this slab does not allow input tax credit, so the net benefit depends on each property&#8217;s cost structure a detail many small hotel owners are still catching up on. (Source: 56th GST Council meeting, Notification No. 15\/2025-Central Tax, effective 22 September 2025) The Technology Gap\u00a0 This is the least-covered number in the industry, and arguably the most consequential for how the next five years play out. A 2023 survey linked to the Ministry of Tourism found 48% of small hotels in India lack the infrastructure to support advanced property management software, cited via a Business Research Insights PMS market report. This is a secondary citation rather than a primary government dataset, so treat the precise figure as indicative rather than exact, but it is directionally consistent with every hotel-tech vendor&#8217;s account of the market: small and independent properties in India are still disproportionately run on paper registers, spreadsheets, and WhatsApp coordination between staff. The consequence shows up operationally, not just in adoption percentages: Put together: the segment with the most room supply, the fastest-growing demand base (domestic pilgrimage and leisure travel), and the biggest tax relief from the 2025 GST reform is also the segment furthest behind on the basic software that prevents double bookings and lost guest records. That gap is the market small-hotel-focused apps like Yavasa exist to close, not a coincidence, but the direct read of the data above. Frequently Asked Questions\u00a0 Q. How big is India&#8217;s independent hotel sector?\u00a0 A. Independent hotels held 56.45% of India&#8217;s hospitality market share by value in 2025 (Mordor Intelligence), and the independent\/unbranded segment accounts for roughly 70% of total room supply nationwide (ResearchAndMarkets), making it the majority of the industry by rooms, even though branded chains get most investment and media coverage. Q. How much do OTAs\u00a0actually cost\u00a0a small hotel in India?\u00a0\u00a0 A. Commission rates typically run 15\u201330% per booking depending on the platform. For a property with significant OTA volume, this commonly totals well over \u20b910\u201315 lakh a year in commissions alone, a cost that direct-booking channels and WhatsApp\/phone-based reservations can partially offset. Q. What is the new GST rate for budget hotels in 2025\u201326?\u00a0\u00a0 A. Rooms priced \u20b91,001\u2013\u20b97,500 a night now\u00a0attract\u00a05% GST (down from 12%), with rooms under \u20b91,000 remaining exempt, effective 22 September 2025 under the 56th GST Council&#8217;s reforms. This directly benefits\u00a0most budget hotels and guest houses, which fall in this bracket.\u00a0 Q. Why is technology adoption low among small hotels in India?\u00a0\u00a0 A. A 2023 survey linked to the Ministry of Tourism found 48% of small hotels lack the infrastructure to support advanced PMS software, commonly cost, complexity, and staff training barriers rather than lack of need, since the same properties report rising overbooking risk as they add more OTA channels. 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