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The Indian Hotels Company's strategy of multiple brands has helped it expand into upscale segments, but it had to tackle transition challenges wherever old properties were given a new identity. The 112-year-old Tata enterprise continued with its ...

Business travellers are known to be demanding. They kick up a fuss if the services are even slightly slipshod. Hotel chains, therefore, go to great lengths to fulfill their whims and fancies-no matter how excessive. However, they are falling short ...

Hoteliers and analysts continue to have a cautious outlook this year on the back of ahead of the 2014 elections, economic crisis in key Western nations and in certain markets. Kaushik Vardharajan, Managing Director of the hospitality consultancy ...

By Chris Mumford & Doug Rosen 'Globalization' has been a buzz word in the hotel sector since the days of Conrad Hilton and his peers. For years now the quest to operate in new markets has seen hotel groups such as Accor, Hilton, IHG, Marriott, and ...

whiff of lemon greets visitors at the new corporate office of Lemon Tree Hotels in Aerocity, near Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport. The office moved here recently from a non-descript building in Okhla Industrial Area, some 20 kilometres ...

BANGALORE: Publishing company S Chand & Co is close to selling its Chennai hotel property, Atlantic Hotels, to CEEBROS Property Development for about Rs 180 crore, a person with knowledge of the development said. "Both companies have been in talks ...

In 19th-century south India, George Brunton's business was a well recognised landmark in Fort Cochin. The Dutch shipbuilder ran his business from a sprawling colonial-style building with its characteristic lime-washed walls, sloping tiled roof and ...