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April 8, 2013

Leela Palaces, Hotel and Resorts Plans to Double its Portfolio in the Next Four Years

For the first time since its inception, The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts has unveiled a new brand identity, including a new logo and a revamped website, designed to express the brand's transformation over the last 25 years. A comprehensive plan will guide the transition of the new identity at existing and upcoming properties which also includes signages, advertising creatives, guest facing materials, sales and marketing collaterals, stationery and amenities.

The Leela

India

Press Release Human Resources

April 4, 2013

Interstate Hotels & Resorts Appoints Chief Operating Officer to JHM Interstate India

Interstate Hotels & Resorts announces Deepak Sarin as chief operating officer of JHM Interstate India Hotels & Resorts. Sarin will be responsible for the Company's operations in India, including maintaining a dynamic team of hospitality experts, integrating and supporting the Company's intelligent systems within the portfolio, maintaining the current portfolio and owner relationships and executing on the Company's overall growth strategy, driving JHM Interstate India to become the premier independent hotel management company on the Indian sub-continent. JHM Interstate India is a joint venture between Interstate Hotels & Resorts and JHM Hotels.

Aimbridge EMEA

India

Press Release Development

April 2, 2013

Hyatt Hotels Corporation rebrands five hotels as “Hyatt” in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, and Amritsar

Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) today debuted its fifth brand in India with the official rebranding of five hotels to "Hyatt": Hyatt Bangalore MG Road, Hyatt Hyderabad Gachibowli, Hyatt Pune, Hyatt Amritsar, and Hyatt Ahmedabad. The new Hyatt hotels join the 11 properties open throughout India operating under the Park Hyatt, Grand Hyatt, Hyatt Regency, and Hyatt Place brands.

Hyatt

India

Press Release Sales & Marketing

March 20, 2013

The Park Hotels (India) Unveiled its All New Look

The Park Hotels, pioneers of luxury boutique hotels inIndia, introduces a refreshed brand experience with a new visual identity and promise. The new logo is in homage to The Park being the place to be and to be seen and focuses on THE. It is also a tip of the hat to The Park's position as the original "The Park Hotel" inIndia. Furthermore, the identity's simple but singular black and white rendition helps brings the colors and richness of The Park's environment to the fore, and helps differentiate it from its competitors.

The Park Hotels

India

External Article

March 19, 2013

Tata group eyes 50 'Ginger' budget hotels by 2015 | gulfnews.com

Tata Group’s subsidiary Roots Corporation Ltd is expanding its presence in the midsize hospitality sector to have 50 budget hotels under its ‘Ginger’ brand by 2015 across the country, an official said Monday. “We are planning to have about 50 Ginger hotels in the lower-end of the midsize market over the next two years from 26 presently in view of the huge potential for budget hotels in the country and encouraging response we have been getting in this segment,” Roots chief executive P.K. Mohan Kumar told reporters here Monday.

gulfnews.com

India

Press Release Development

March 11, 2013

The Taj Group Launches Its 100th Hotel In India; Vivanta By Taj Enters India’s Millennium City - Gurgaon, NCR

The Taj Group, India's largest hospitality group, today announced the launch of its 100th hotel in India with Vivanta by Taj, in the Millennium City of Gurgaon. The Group has 117 hotels globally. This takes the overall portfolio of Vivanta by Taj – Hotels & Resorts to 26 hotels.?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /

IHCL

Gurgaon, India

Press Release

March 4, 2013

The Oberoi Group Creates a Mark in Hospitality Training and Education

The Oberoi Group has opened applications for the latest intake of students for its 'Systematic Training and Education Programme' or "STEP" programme. This three-year programme combines practical on the job training with study towards a Bachelor of Tourism Studies (BTS) degree from the Indira Gandhi National Open University. It gives graduates a real edge in the important early stage of their career.

Oberoi

India

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February 25, 2013

Westin® Hotels & Resorts Announces Opening of the Westin Chennai Velachery

Westin Hotels and Resorts, part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT), today announced the opening of The Westin Chennai Velachery. Strategically located in the fast growing business district of Chennai in the Southern part of India, The Westin Chennai Velachery is the sixth Westin hotel in India and the first out of seven new Westin hotels expected to open in 2013 across Asia Pacific.

Starwood

India

Press Release Markets & Performance

February 25, 2013

Gurgaon emerges as a RevPAR leader in India's luxury hotel segment

Gurgaon, New Delhi's flourishing satellite city, is today one of the country's most promising hospitality markets. Currently, Gurgaon's existing branded inventory stands at above 4,000 rooms, with a planned pipeline of over 4,500 rooms. Of these, over 50 percent are mid-scale and budget supply. Virtually all domestic and international hotel operators aspire for representation in Gurgaon, if they are not already present.

JLL

Gurgaon, India

Press Release Development

February 20, 2013

Hilton Worldwide Announces Opening of Hilton Garden Inn Gurgaon Baani Square

Hilton Worldwide today announced the opening of Hilton Garden Inn Gurgaon Baani Square. Hilton Garden Inn is the award-winning upscale mid-priced hotel brand that strives to ensure today's busy travellers have everything they need to be most productive on the road. This is the second Hilton Garden Inn brand hotel in the country. With this opening, Hilton Worldwide now managed seven hotels in Delhi NCR.

Hilton

Gurgaon, India

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Appointment

February 18, 2013

Shane Krige has been appointed as General Manager at The Ritz-Carlton, Bangalore

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company L.L.C., has appointed Shane Krige as General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton, Bangalore, which is set to open in summer 2013. He is responsible for all the pre-opening stages of the development and for the daily hotel operations of F&B, rooms and sales and marketing divisions once the hotel is launched.

Ritz-Carlton

Bengaluru, India

Press Release Development

February 18, 2013

InterContinental Hotels Group sets sights on growth in India, 13 new hotels signed in 2012 creating 2,600 jobs

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has announced it has signed 13 new hotels in India, boosting its existing pipeline in the country to 47. The announcement was made as Jan Smits, chief executive officer for IHG in Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA), took part in a trade mission to India with British Prime Minister David Cameron to boost trade ties between the two countries.

IHG

India

External Article Development

February 14, 2013

India needs more budget hotels, says Gateway Hotels CEO | thehindubusinessline.com

Notwithstanding the fact that a few thousands of new rooms have been added in the last two to three years, India is still a very under-supplied market, as far as hotel rooms are concerned. It is in dire need of both budget and upscale hotels, says P.K. Mohankumar, Chief Operating Officer of Gateway Hotels (of The Indian Hotels Company Ltd).

IHCL

India

Press Release Development

February 13, 2013

Kempinski Ambience Hotel Delhi Is Now Open

Europe's oldest luxury hotel brand, Kempinski, has reinforced its commitment to India by launching its first independently managed hotel in the commercial district of Shadara in East Delhi – Kempinski Ambience Delhi.

Kempinski

Dehli, India

Press Release Development

February 13, 2013

Holiday Inn Lavasa to open in Mugaon, India by 2015

Lavasa Corporation recently signed an agreement with IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms to open Holiday Inn at Mugaon, the second town under development at Lavasa. Holiday Inn Lavasa, Mugaon, a 200-room mid-scale hotel is expected to open by 2015. Lavasa, India's first planned hill city is located in the western region of India in the picturesque landscape of the Sahayadri Mountains, amidst 7 hills and 60 km of lakefront. A three-hour drive from Mumbai and an hour's drive from Pune, the city is one fifth the size of Mumbai.

IHG

Mugaon, India

Press Release Human Resources

February 1, 2013

100% success rate for the Youth Career Initiative in India

For 35 young adults in Mumbai 2013 is a year of great expectations. Having successfully completed the six-month Youth Career Initiative programme, they begin a life full of more opportunity and choice. As graduate Rohit Gupta, now employed at the Hyatt Regency hotel puts it, "the Youth Career Initiative has opened up a whole new world of opportunities for me."

Sustainable Hospitality Alliance

India

Press Release

January 22, 2013

Starwood Hotels & Resorts strengthens its leading position with more than 330 new properties

In the "top 10" with more than 1,000 hotels: Starwood Hotels & Resorts further enlarges its leading position as one of the biggest hotel groups worldwide. According to TOPHOTELPROJECTS (www.tophotelprojects.com), the worldwide leading provider of global b2b hotel data and lead contacts, the US based corporation currently develops more than 330 new top hotels worldwide with more than 85,000 rooms. Starwood thereby closes the gap to the three largest hotel chains on the globe – InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) with 4,437 hotels/ 647,161 rooms, Hilton Worldwide (3,689 hotels/ 605.938 rooms) and Wyndham Worldwide (7,152 hotels/ 605.713 rooms).

TOPHOTELPROJECTS

Mahabaleshwar, India

Press Release Sales & Marketing

January 21, 2013

WTTC calls on India Government to reduce taxes and improve visa policies

"India is the 12th largest Travel & Tourism economy in the world and has the potential to become one of the very biggest economies in our industry. Yet it risks squandering this opportunity through excessive taxation and restrictive visa policies."At a speech today in Delhi, David Scowsill, WTTC President & CEO, has called on the Indian government to address the two biggest issues that are likely to hold back the growth of the country's Travel & Tourism economy.

WTTC

India

Appointment

January 17, 2013

Guy Hutchinson has been appointed as Vice President, Operations - India at Hilton Worldwide

New Delhi, INDIA – January 17, 2013 – Hilton Worldwide announces the appointment of Guy Hutchinson as vice president, operations, for India. Effective November 1, 2012, Hutchinson took charge of Hilton Worldwide’s operations in one of the company’s key strategic markets. The company presently operates 12 hotels in the country under four of its award-winning brands and continues to expand its network rapidly through a multi-brand, multiple partners and high-growth strategy.

Hilton

New Delhi, India

Press Release Development

January 17, 2013

Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group strengthens leadership position in India in 2012

Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the world's largest and most dynamic hotel groups, achieved strong growth in India in 2012 with 13 hotel openings and 13 new signings, sealing its position as the number one international hotel operator in India by number of hotels and earning industry accolades along the way. Carlson Rezidor closed the year with a total India portfolio of 63 hotels in operation and 44 hotels in development.

India