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Eco Hotels and Resorts Ltd looks to become profitable by the end of next fiscal and has acquired three properties with around 178 keys, according to a statement. The hospitality company which aims to develop eco-friendly properties with zero carbon footprint is also on course to hit 400-room capacity by month-end, the statement said. Eco Hotels & Resorts CFO Vikram Doshi said, We are committed to turn the company into profit by end of March 2026. We want to turn this company soon into one of the leading hotel companies of India. In its very first year of operation in India, Eco Hotels is setting new standards in sustainable hospitality, the official said. Eco Hotels has also announced the acquisition of three properties. These include a 90-room property in Mysore (Karnataka) a 44-room hotel at Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh), and another 44-room asset in Nagpur (Maharashtra). The company board recently approved the acquisition of these properties on a long-term lease basis. Moreover, .
Plans to double room inventory to 10,000 units by 2030
The domestic hospitality industry is gearing up to make the most of full-fledged Christmas and New Year celebrations this time around after two years of washout by the pandemic, with rooms at many hotels and resorts already sold out. As people seek to make up for the winter holidays lost to COVID-19, destinations like Karjat, Lonavala, Vizag, Dharamshala, Udaipur, Manali and Gir are witnessing good demand, apart from traditional popular places like Goa, Kerala and Shimla. "The year-end festive season looks very positive and this year appears to be one of the best years so far for the hospitality sector," Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels Ltd Managing Director, Vijay Dewan told PTI in an e-mailed response. He further said, "All our hotels are gearing up for sold out spaces along with high occupancy in rooms. This year we have lined up some great events during Christmas and New Year's which the guests missed out during the last 2 years due to the pandemic." Mahindra Holidays & Resorts ..
Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd plans to invest up to Rs 1,500 crore in the next three years in expansion, including room additions and resort acquisitions, according to company MD and CEO Kavinder Singh. The company is also considering launching a new upscale brand for managing resorts, through which it would also look to further grow its Club Mahindra memberships. "We are on a growth path. We have added 1,000-odd rooms in just about two and a half years," Singh told PTI. At present, Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd (MHRIL) has a total of about 4,700 rooms across 86 resorts -- 74 in India and 12 internationally, he added. When asked about future expansion, he said, "For us, we have to add resorts, that's the business we are in. We have a plan to easily add 1,200 to 1,500 rooms in about three years' time and that will happen at an estimated capital expenditure of about Rs 1,200 crore to Rs 1500 crore, which is sanctioned by the board". Among the major expansion ...
Mahindra Holidays & Resorts, which operates under the flagship Club Mahindra brand of membership-only resorts, plans to add over 300 rooms by March to take the overall inventory to 4,500 keys, a top company official has said. The Mahindra group firm had reported the highest quarterly profit of Rs 40.6 crore in the three months to September 2021 amid the pandemic that has hit the hospitality and tourism industry badly. It operates 78 properties offering 4,233 keys as of now and has been clocking about 80 per cent occupancy in the third quarter and hopes to better it going ahead provided there is no third wave and the resultant mobility curbs. "We started this fiscal with 4,197 rooms and we are on course to close the year with an inventory of 4,500 rooms. We are adding a little over 300 rooms to our existing properties at Assonora in Goa and Ganapatiphule in Maharashtra," Kavinder Singh, managing director and chief executive of Mahindra Holidays, told PTI. Refusing to give an exact .
Hotels had seen demand picking up in the winter of 2020, but restrictions imposed by local authorities have thwarted that
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