IHCL gets permission to build flagship hotel for Ginger brand

Ginger now operates 50 hotels, and is developing another 16

In conformity with Tata-owned IHCL’s stated plans of expanding its Ginger hotel brand, the company has opened six new properties in Patna, Surat, Goa, Dwarka, and Kalinganagar in the past two years, in addition to getting government clearance for a “big-box” flagship hotel in Mumbai.

Puneet Chhatwal, IHCL’s managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO), says the company’s new Ginger in Mumbai will start development in 2020 and have 370 rooms.

While Ginger has been in the past a budget chain catering to the bottom of the pyramid, Chhatwal says the new Ginger is focused on being aspirational. “The