 leader he has made it to the list is Ritesh Agrawal Oyo Rooms. Ritesh started Oyo Rooms in 2013 to fill the gap he observed in the budget hotel segment. Today with over 13,000 hotel and homestay partners in over 7 countries, Ritesh is the CEO of Vindal's largest hospitality chain built on a technology backbone. Thank you Dr. Anurag Batra and the entire E4M team for this recognition. A very happy new year to everyone. I am absolutely honored and delighted to be included in the Impact Digital Power 100 list along with so many distinguished individuals who I greatly admire. To me personally, they couldn't have been a better way to start this year. Both personally and professionally, 2020 can be described as a transformational year. The hospitality industry went from a high touch to contactless. The pandemic gave us a lens into the future and we also learned to never let a crisis go waste. At Oyo, it gives us the opportunity to reassess and retool and frankly reflect that the power of technology, data and innovation can create industry first measures and this will allow us to adopt to the new normal making 2021 the year of Oyo's resurgence driven by sustainable growth. With the vaccine on the horizon, I'm excited about the possibilities 2021 has to offer while we as an industry chart a new growth path. If there is something 2020 has taught us, it is that while India went on lockdown, our zeal to travel could not remain locked. We use this opportunity to ensure that wherever essential travel was so required, we ensure that consumers travel the shortest distances. They were safe and all the precautions were kept in mind. In December 2020, 1.7 million plus checked into an Oyo over the weekends and we saw 8.5 million people travel in 2020 in India. And India was consistently one of the most booked countries around the world in the Oyo family demonstrating the recovery that India has been seen. If this is an indication, we believe that the hospitality industry will see better days in 2021 and that efforts of 2020 will set new precedents in the travel and tourism industry. I must of course call out a lot of these are early recovery and remains temporary and hence it's critical for us to make sure that we continue to take all the precautions just not just ourselves but also people at large so that we can continue to make sure that all this feeling of ability to travel we can preserve and continue to build on the fantastic trend that India has seen. Our partners who never lost faith, we navigated the crisis together and not just that. In the middle of the crisis helped hundreds of thousands of frontliners by free stays and enablement for the accommodation as they sometimes had to stay in our hotel premises. Our customers gave us immense faith and love throughout the period. I am grateful, thankful and really, really appreciated for the help in this period of time. What also kept us going is being able to share the message of what we are trying to do, the acknowledgments of the mistakes we had made, the commitment to the future and the belief that we have for the future is our core partners and friends in the content ecosystem, leaders in the ecosystem and various other market leaders. I also want to make sure that our friends at E4M have allowed us to proliferate our dynamic changes in the travel industry to a wider set of audience and I'm deeply grateful to all of you here. I know Prasidha and other team members of the OEO Communications team have often been recognized by the E4M team and we are all really grateful to all of you for the recognition. I would like to conclude by saying that there is always light at the end of the tunnel, 2020 needless to say jolted us all and made us rethink as a society on our priorities as well as a company. We realized that acknowledgement, humility, passion, perseverance and the will to never give up, we can emerge stronger out of any situation. I am a believer, I am sure that 2021, even though we are not out of the woods yet, will mark a great year of beginning. Here's to making sure that we continue digging and if we keep digging there is always light on the other side of the tunnel. Thank you all for this incredible honor.