Delhi-based hospitality company, Toshali Resorts International, has bagged four Odisha Tourism-owned accommodation units for management under Lease Development Agreement (LDA). The Department of Tourism, Government of Odisha had floated tenders for leasing out 33 hotel properties spread across the state from private hospitality investors recently.

Harihar Patra, Director-Marketing, Toshali Resorts International revealed, “We won the bid in October and now various legal formalities are through and we expect to start operations of the properties from March 2012.”
 
The hotel group will be managing hotels in Pathrajpur, Ratnagiri, Udayagiri and Lalitgiri. All the properties are located in the Buddhist circuit. “Our emphasis has always been to promote the tourism of the state. Now that we have won the bid to manage four properties in October 2011, Toshali simultaneously enters the management of properties too,” Patra said.