The size of hotels and convention halls in India’s biggest cities is getting larger, a departure from the past when operators chose to build smaller properties because of high real estate cost, increase in demand and a lack of suitable land.

Companies, including budget and mid-market hotel operators, are also adding more rooms to existing hotels and building bigger convention centres to attract more customers as per a Mint report.

ITC Hotels Ltd, owned by India’s biggest cigarette maker, is building a 600 room hotel in Chennai on 160,000 sq. ft that is slated to open on 1 May, according to its website. The ITC Grand Cholawill have the largest convention centre in the country built on 100,000 sq. ft with a 30,000 sq. ft ballroom. France-based Accor group’s Ibis budget hotel chain is building a 465 room hotel at the airport in New Delhi.

Still, the biggest Indian hotels can’t match the size of world’s largest hotels. Venetian/ Palazzo in Las Vegas, the world’s largest hotel, has 8,108 rooms.

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