With an aim to expand its hotel portfolio in the country, Sarovar Hotels plans to have 60 hotels by end of 2010. The hotel chain currently operates 36 properties across 29 destinations in the country. Plans are in the pipeline to open five properties by end of 2009.
Though the hotel chain has franchise rights to develop Carlson Hotels Worldwide’s Park Inn and Park Plaza brand in India, it is currently focusing on developing its own brands. “Of the 31 properties currently under development, we have nine properties branded as either Park Plaza or Park Inn. The rest will be under the Sarovar Premier, Portico or Hometel brands,” informed Anil Madhok, Managing Director, Sarovar Hotels Pvt. Ltd.
In the first three quarters of 2009, the chain launched 50-room Renaissance Sarovar Portico, Hosur (Bengaluru); 70-room Pak Inn, Jaipur; 50-room Park Inn, Gurgaon (Civil Lines) and 50-room Peerless Sarovar Portico, Port Blair. By March 2010, the hotel will launch 49-room Sarovar Portico in Ludhiana; 65-room Sarovar Premiere in Siliguri; 118-room Hometel in Chandigarh; 134-room Ole Sereni in Nairobi; |