Sun n Sand Hotels, the Mumbai-based hotel development and management company is set to launch its first hotel in Nagpur by September 2009. The company, which currently owns and operates hotels under its indigenous brand name in Mumbai, Pune and Shirdi is positioning its new property as the first five-star hotel in Nagpur. It currently manages 400 rooms in its portfolio and will add 133 rooms with the Nagpur property. The company has invested around Rs 80 crore in the Nagpur project.
Speaking with TravelBiz Monitor, Gulshan Arora, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Sun-n-Sand Hotels, stated, “There is a huge emerging market in Nagpur with a great need for good quality five-star accommodation, which we aim to provide. Our property is very close to the Multimodal International Hub Airport at Nagpur (MIHAN) SEZ project as well as the Boeing Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility. This will act as a huge source market with the inflow of international business clientele to the hotel.” |