IHCL to launch hotels across Guj
DNA, Ahmedabad
21 December 2007

The Indian Hotels Company Ltd (IHCL), of the Tata Group will launch hotels in Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Rajkot.

Surat and six other cities in Gujarat to cope with the ever-increasing demand in hospitality industry. Prabhat Pani, chief executive officer anddirector  of Roots Corporation Ltd, a subsidiary of IHCL, said that one hotel has already been launched in Vadodara while another Ginger hotel will be opened in Ahmedabad followed by Surat and Rajkot. The 96-room hotel in the city is the 11th hotel that Ginger has added to its growing chain across the country which includes hotels in Bangalore, Pune, Haridwar, Bhubaneshwar, Mysore, Thiruvananthapuram, Durgapur, Nasik, Agartala and Puducherry.

Pani said they also want to open hotels in Jamnagar, Bhavnagar, Vapi, Bharuch, Ambaji and Gandhinagar. "With 55 SEZs coming across Gujarat, it will indirectly help the hotel industry as the demand for the hotels will too go up", Pani said. "Work on Ginger hotels has commenced in Ludhiana, Pantnagar, Goa, Delhi, Guwahati, Mangalore and Ahmedabad and will soon begin in Tirupur and Jamshedpur", general manager Darius Merchant said. The hotels are built around a unique concept that provides facilities to meet the key needs of today's travellers of affordable rates.

PTI