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Chalet Hotel launches premium lifestyle brand Athiva, eyes rapid expansion

The premium lifestyle brand ATHIVA will start with six hotels and 900 keys, as Chalet Hotels aims to double capacity and expand into Goa and Thiruvananthapuram

GST on hotel rooms under ₹7,500 cut to 5%, Indian travellers to benefit

The GST Council has slashed tax from 12% to 5% on hotel rooms priced below ₹7,500 per night, offering relief to travellers and giving a push to domestic tourism

IHCL signs agreement with Madison for 10 new hotels in South India

The Indian Hotels Company on Monday said it has signed an agreement with Madison, the hospitality platform of Terminus Group and JV Ventures, for ten new hotels to be operated under the Ginger brand spread across the southern states of India. Madison will invest approximately Rs 500 crore in the construction of ten hotels with over 1,000 keys within the next three years. The ten new hotel sites will primarily be greenfield and brownfield projects, and this partnership has commenced with the signing of a 75-key Ginger hotel in Genome Valley in Telangana, Indian Hotels Company (IHCL) said in a statement. This capital-light arrangement will be an operating lease agreement under the Ginger brand, it added. Ginger represents IHCL's strategic response to capitalise on the growing opportunity in the mid-scale segment in India for the aspirational traveller. The brand spans all city categories and destinations from metros, state capitals, commercial centres, industrial townships, pilgrima

Brigade Hotel Q1 results: Net profit at ₹7 cr, income rises to ₹125.03 cr

Brigade Hotel Ventures Ltd has posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 7.16 crore in the first quarter of this fiscal. The company, which recently got listed on the stock exchanges after the successful Rs 760 crore IPO ( Initial Public Offering), had posted a net loss of Rs 5.78 crore in the year-ago period. Total income rose to Rs 125.03 crore in the April-June period of 2025-26 fiscal from Rs 102.20 crore in the corresponding period of the preceding year, according to a regulatory filing on Monday. Brigade Hotel Ventures Ltd, a subsidiary of realty firm Brigade Enterprise, has a portfolio of nine operating hotels across Bengaluru (Karnataka), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Kochi (Kerala), Mysuru (Karnataka) and the GIFT City (Gujarat) with 1,604 keys. Commenting on the results, Nirupa Shankar, Managing Director, Brigade Hotel Ventures, said, "Our Q1 performance reflects the strength of our diversified portfolio and our ability to navigate market challenges while capturing new ...

OYO to enter F&B with in-house kitchens, QSR carts in serviced hotels

Global travel tech firm OYO on Thursday said it plans to enter the food and beverage business with in-house kitchens and Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) carts at its company-serviced hotels. The QSR initiative, under brand name 'Townhouse Cafe', will focus on the 'Townhouse by OYO' branded hotels. It will cover 1,500 company-serviced hotels during the first phase of the programme in FY2025-26. Besides, guests can order meals through online platforms, including the OYO app and website, as well as online travel agents, by selecting the "Kitchen Services" option. The kitchen setup would vary from a full-fledged commercial kitchen for an extensive menu or a pantry setup for essential food items, based on the individual hotel profile and back-end infrastructure. "The F&B initiative is a result of consistent consumer feedback that the hotels should provide in-room dining options as well. The programme is expected to increase customer satisfaction scores. "OYO is expecting F&B to ...

Hotel chain Hyatt bets on India's population boom to fuel revenue growth

Hyatt said it plans to open six hotels in India, home to roughly 1.4 billion people, this year including in smaller cities from northern Ghaziabad to southern Kochi

Thai hospitality chain Dusit re-enters India, to focus on Tier-II, III mkts

To work on asset-light model, open to investments in metro cities

FHRAI urges govt to delink food and beverage GST rates from room tariffs

The Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India (FHRAI) on Sunday pitched for delinking the GST on food & beverage services from accommodation charges in hotels. Citing multiple representations made to the authorities, FHRAI emphasized that the current practice of linking F&B taxation to hotel room tariffs is both unfair and operationally challenging for the hospitality industry. Under the prevailing GST framework, restaurants within hotels charging Rs 7,500 or more per room per day are subject to 18 per cent GST on F&B services with input tax credit (ITC) benefits, while those in hotels with tariffs below this threshold must levy 5 per cent GST without ITC. FHRAI has proposed a flexible system allowing all hotel restaurants to independently opt for either 18 per cent GST with ITC or 5 per cent without ITC, irrespective of the room rates. "With regard to our request of delinking this particular GST which is the threshold of Rs 7,500 which is there today, as .

Increase in room rates, higher occupancy to drive gains for Indian Hotels

Domestic tourism will get a boost from key sporting events, and events like Bharat Mobility Expo, Aero India, Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas, and Mahakumbh

Eco Hotels expands into Bengaluru, to unveil 2 new hotels by early Feb

Eco Hotels and Resorts Ltd on Thursday said it has expanded into the Bengaluru market by opening a 60-room property and looks to make operational two new hotels in Kota and Nagpur by early next month. The mid-segment hotel chain in a statement said that it has achieved a major milestone and will be entering Bengaluru, the Silicon Valley city of India, with a 60-room property under the 'EcoExpress' brand. Eco Hotels is also gearing up to open two properties at Nagpur with 44 rooms and Kota with 63 rooms by the month-end or early February 2025, it said. The sustainable hospitality services provider said Baroda and Aurangabad hotels are undergoing interiors and will become operational soon. Through our expansion into fast-growing markets like Mysore, Nagpur, and Shirdi, we are strengthening our footprint as well as catering to the travel requirements of environmentally conscious hospitality, Vinod K Tripathi, Executive Chairman of Eco Hotels and Resorts said. The new openings align .

NCLAT sets aside EIH plea against NCLT order for Golden Jubilee Hotels sale

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has set aside hospitality major EIH Ltd's petition against an NCLT order approving the sale of Hyderabad-based Golden Jubilee Hotels. The appellate tribunal upheld the earlier decision of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), allowing the bid of a Singapore-based entity and said the business decision by the majority of the CoC (Committee of Creditors) "cannot be questioned or looked into". "This recent judgment leaves no doubt about reinforced faith in commercial wisdom of CoC and little scope of any judicial intervention," said a two-member bench of the NCLAT. Earlier, the Hyderabad Bench of NCLT had approved the bids of Singapore-based BREP Asia II Indian Holding Co II (NQ) PTE on February 7, 2020, which was challenged before NCLAT by EIH, a flagship company of The Oberoi Group. EIH, which was managing Golden Jubilee Hotels and has 16 per cent shareholding, contended that it could not be treated as a promoter and become ...

Eco Hotels looks to become profitable by end of FY26; acquires 3 properties

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, .

India's hospitality sector attracts $93 million investment in H1 of 2024

Listed hotel companies lead hotel transactions in H1 2024

IHCL Q3 results: Consolidated profit after tax rises 18% to Rs 452 crore

The Indian Hotels Company (IHCL) reported a 18 per cent growth in consolidated Profit After Tax (PAT) to Rs 451.95 crore in the December quarter, on strong performance in all verticals. The hospitality company's PAT stood at Rs 382.71 crore in the year-ago period, the company said in a statement. The company's revenue from operations grew 16.49 per cent to Rs 1,963.84 crore in the third quarter of the ongoing fiscal compared to Rs 1,685.80 crore a year ago. IHCL Managing Director and CEO Puneet Chhatwal told PTI that the performance during the quarter was driven by strong performance in all verticals. "IHCL reported an all-time high consolidated PAT margin of 22.6 per cent, marking seven consecutive quarters of record financial performance. This robust performance was enabled by 'same store hotels' clocking RevPAR premium across markets and segments, and the scaling of new businesses," he said. The company's new business vertical comprising Ginger, Qmin, ama Stays & Trails, The ..

Hotel stay in India may cost you 7-10% more in 2024, 15% in Delhi, Mumbai

The market cap of listed hotels, at Rs 1.2 trillion, is expected to reach 1.5 trillion by the end of 2024

EIH hits 52-week high as promoter Oberoi Group partners Reliance Industries

Reliance Industries and The Oberoi Hotels and Resorts will jointly manage three properties across India and the UK

Drivers upbeat, hotels fret over Tamil Nadu's new accommodation norms

Apart from the huge investment separate staying facilities for drivers will entail, hotels also worry that the urban space crunch will prevent them from meeting the 250-metre rule set by the state

Hotels, tour operators shed Covid baggage as Diwali promises to sparkle

Group tours at 65-70% of pre-pandemic levels; Southeast Asia, Egypt, and Turkey seeing maximum demand

Nehru to 'Gandhi': The history of the iconic Ashok Hotel in New Delhi

A brainchild of then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, The Ashoka, as it was then called, was among the most iconic hotels in the country