The chairman of the Hilton Worldwide, Lenny Menezes has the mandate to re-establish the Hilton brand in India and expand the hotel chain quickly to benefit from the impending boom in the hospitality sector. Hilton on its own will set up 50 hotels in the next five years, out of which six hotels are operational in New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai as per a report by Meenakshi Verma Ambwani in ET.

Hundreds of hotels will be adding up to 155,000 rooms around the country in the next five years—out of which 65,000 will be branded. "But the country will still be facing a shortage of rooms," says Menezes. Hilton on its own will set up 50 hotels in the next five years, out of which six hotels are operational in New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. While Hilton and Hilton Garden Inn have already been launched in the country, the company will be introducing its luxury brands Waldorf Astoria and Conrad besides upscale brand Doubletree and the mid-market brand, Hampton.

"We have a robust pipeline of hotels under construction and we will open six hotels in the next nine months. We believe our mid-scale brands Hampton Hotels and Hilton Garden Inn will drive our growth in the country as they are well suited to expand in secondary and tertiary cities," Menezes says. These six hotels will open under the Hilton and Doubletree brands in Gurgaon, Bangalore, in various cities of Gujarat and in the Mumbai region. Hilton will operate through the management contract route.

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