Best Western to build 66 new hotels in India
Sunday, 8 January 2012
MUMBAI, Jan 7 (AFP): US hotel chain Best Western Friday announced plans to build 66 new hotels in India, part of a nearly $300 million investment in the country's hospitality industry.
Ten to 15 hotels are scheduled to be built every year for the next five years in a 16-billion-rupee scheme aimed at creating nearly 6,000 new rooms in the emerging sector.
About 20 new Best Western Premier five-star hotels will be built with the company focusing on fast-developing cities outside the main metropolitan areas of New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai.
Other locations targeted include religious destinations such as the Sikh holy city of Amritsar and Shirdi, birthplace of the 19th century Hindu sage Sai Baba, which see millions of pilgrims every year.