With a portfolio of 60 hotels across 40 destinations in India and abroad, the Sarovar hotels and resorts group is all set to scale up its expansion plans to target 100 properties by 2020 even as it focusses on the growing religious tourism market.
The Sarovar group, which has 4,895 rooms in operational hotels across various destinations, is aiming to add another 1,673 rooms within the next two years.
"With a portfolio of 60 hotels across 40 destinations, Sarovar Hotels is strongly rooted in the Indian hospitality scene today. The company aspires to achieve the 100-hotel target by 2020," group managing director Anil Madhok told IANS.
In 2011, Sarovar Hotels launched 12 hotels across India. They were in Navi Mumbai, Delhi(two), Jaipur, Faridabad, Hyderabad, Rajkot, Roorkee, Pune, Ahmedabad, Ghaziabad and Bengaluru. Four hotels were launched this year in Chandigarh, Vayalar (Kerala), Koramangala (Bengaluru) and Naraina in New Delhi.
Two more hotels, The Heron Portico in Nairobi(Kenya) and one in Delhi's Shahadra area will be launched in November and December.
This will be followed by six more hotels to be launched in 2013 in Santiniketan, Solapur, Thekkady, Bhiwadi, Jaisalmer and Jalandhar.
The group has two properties operational outside India at present. These include the New Africa hotel and Casino in Dar-e-Salaam, Tanzania, and Ole-Sereni Hotel in Nairobi(Kenya). The Sarovar group manages hotels in the 3-star, 4-star and 5-star categories.
Its brands include the Premiere, Portico, Hometel, Park Plaza and Park Inn. It also manages corporate hospitality services at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, Hindustan Unilever Limited's training centre in Mumbai and the new campus of the Indian School of Business (ISB) at Mohali.
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