Thursday 25 October 2012

InterGlobe Hotels plans to have 21 properties across India by 2015

InterGlobe Hotels Pvt Ltd, JV between Accor (40 per cent) and InterGlobe (60 per cent) plans to have 21 hotels with 3600 rooms operational across various cities in India by 2015. Currently, InterGlobe has seven hotels operational in cities including Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Nashik and Gurgaon. By the end of this year, InterGlobe Hotels will open ibis Hotels at Jaipur with 145 rooms and Delhi (Aerocity) with 465 rooms. This information was revealed by Uttam Dave, President and CEO, InterGlobe Hotels Pvt Ltd during the official launch of ibis Navi Mumbai yesterday.

The upcoming pipeline of hotels will witness hotels at Tier I and Tier II cities including Coimbatore, Kochi and near Candolim beach in Goa. He added, “So far InterGlobe Hotels has invested Rs 850 crore as equity whereas the asset value is Rs 1800 crore for the existing and pipeline hotels. Of the 21 hotels, seven are operational, nine are under construction and five will start construction soon.”

Besides the above pipeline of hotels, six more properties are at advanced stages of discussion and will be finalised in one year. This will add 900 rooms to the above inventory, he informed. Talking about ibis Hotels in India vis-à-vis abroad, Dave said, “Ibis Hotels in India have elaborate food and beverage offerings and also the service standards have been modified. For instance, we have introduced the concept for room service for ibis hotels in India.”

Courtesy : hospitalitybizindia.com

No comments:

Post a Comment