According to reports, ITC Hotels could soon be a separately listed entity, carved out of the parent cigarette-to-branded packaged food conglomerate.
ITC Ltd would pursue the "asset-right" strategy for its hotel business to ensure that the diversified conglomerate remains competitive and contemporary, and continues to deliver superior performance, its chairman Sanjiv Puri said. The Kolkata-based multi-conglomerate, which operates hotels under the brand names such as ITC and Welcome, also said that it is exploring foreign markets for its hospitality business, he said. According to Puri, the tourism and hotel industry is recovering after pandemic and the company will take the demerger process forward and explore alternate structure. "Once things are finalised and we have a final proposal we will share it," Puri told PTI when asked about the demerger of ITC hotel business. On the company's plans to expand hotel operations overseas, he said they are "pursuing asset-right strategy sometime now and there are large number of hotels that have come in under Welcome hotels. The new brand called 'Storii' and 'Momentous' also will start ...
Mid-sized hotels have an advantage of better penetration in the tier-2 and tier-3 markets
The remuneration of directors of hotel companies, like IHCL and EIH Ltd, has seen a rise between 8 and 250 per cent in FY22 year-on-year (YoY)
ITC Chairman and Managing Director Sanjiv Puri's three years in charge have seen structural shifts that steadied the cigarettes to hotels major against a tough business environment
Lower costs, improving occupancies as well as room rents augur well
Club ITC members can also save up to 10 per cent on room reservations through Club ITC exclusive member rates and earn and redeem Club ITC Green Points for their stays booked directly
Slated to open in the first quarter of next fiscal, the 130-room property is spread over 106 acres with each room offering a view of the beautiful panoramic Arravalis
On the bourses, the stock of the cigarette-to-hotels conglomerate rallied 16 per cent on the BSE during the quarter under review, as against around 13 per cent gain in the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex
Together with Storii, the hotel chain is looking to create differentiated experience for travellers
These five hotels will be -- Fortune Resort Benaulim Goa, Fortune Park in Hoshiarpur (Punjab), Fortune Park in Tirupur (Tamil Nadu), Fortune Select in Goa and a Fortune Inn in Haldwani (Uttarakhand)
About the FMCG business, Sanjiv Puri said ITC is focusing to build a formidable business at scale and several of its brands have already achieved leadership positions
Sanjiv Puri said an extensive strategy reset has been undertaken to architect the structural drivers that will power ITC's next horizon of growth
Industry body CII on Thursday said it has partnered with ITC Hotels to launch vocational education training by Switzerland-based hotel school EHL in the hospitality sector.
Its revenue from operations rose 36 per cent per cent to Rs 14,240 crore
Premium restaurants see gourmet meals on wheels as a long-term business
Over the past fortnight, five-star hotel chains including and premium boutique brand are seeing the occupancy at their properties either reach the near optimum level or being completely sold out.
Amid Covid pandemic and slump in the hospitality industry owing to lockdown and restrictions, ITC Hotels is optimistic about domestic tourism, planning to increase number of properties in Welcomhotel.
Analysts remain cautious on cigarettes and hotels businesses in the medium term. On the techncial charts, the stock is in the process of forming an 'Island Reversal Pattern'
The FMCG major's consolidated revenue from operations rose to Rs 15,404 crore