Wonderla Holidays Ltd, India’s largest amusement park chain, said it will re-open its Hyderabad amusement park from Aug 5, marking the first such facility under the company management to re-open after the second wave of COVID-19. The company had reopened its hotel, Wonderla Resorts, earlier this month, but its amusement parks are still shut as […]
Wonderla Holidays said it has decided to reopen its hotel, Wonderla Resort, near the Wonderla amusement park in Bangalore, from Monday. It said lock-down rules still do not allow it to open the amusement park yet. Wonderla Resort, which is a kind of weekend getaway on the Bangalore-Mysore road, will be opened with a 50% […]
Royal Orchid, which focuses on mid-sized hotels across India, announced the opening of 8 new hotels, its biggest batch of hotel inaugurations ever. The company also announced that it will continue to expand fast, moving up from 64 hotels at present. “We are on a path to set up 100+ hotels across the length and […]
Lemon Tree Hotels Ltd, India’s third largest hotel chain, opened its first international hotel in Dubai, and said it will also open in Bhutan and Nepal. The Dubai Lemon Tree hotel will be managed by Lemon Tree via its subsidiary Carnation Hotels Pvt. Ltd. and will be owned by Al Waleed Real Estate LLC. Lemon […]
Thomas Cook India today clarified that the financial troubles of its former, UK-based parent, Thomas Cook Group Plc, will have zero impact on the Indian company as the former parent has sold off its entire stake in the Indian unit seven years ago. Thomas Cook Group, founded in 1841 in Britain, sold its 77% stake […]
Travel services firm Cox & Kings said it has agreed to provide ‘ancillary travel services’ to RCI, considered the largest timeshare holiday network in the world. Cox & Kings will provide various facilities to Indian members of the RCI network, including visa processing, air tickets and transfers. The Indian timeshare holiday market is currently dominated […]
Cox and Kings’ unit Meininger Hotels said it will construct a 126-room hotel in Bremen, Germany. The new hotel, scheduled to open in 2022, will have 378 beds in an area of 5,100 square metres on 11 floors. The hotel is located near Bremen’s Old Town and central station, the travel and tourism company said. […]
Cox and Kings said that its hotel subsidiary Meininger Hotels announced the opening of its first hotel in Hungary. The hotel, named Meininger Budapest Great Market Hall, will have 751 beds in 184 rooms spread over 6,600 square metres on seven floors. The new hotel is located in the Ferencydros district, close to the Great […]
Cox & Kings said its hotel subsidiary, Meininger, has signed “an agreement for a hotel in Reykjavik”, the capital of Iceland in Europe. The company did not clarify who will own the property, but it is likely that ownership will be with a third party, with Meininger managing the hotel. Meininger is a subsidiary of […]
Royal Orchid hotel chain said it has opened its 49th property near the Bharatpur bird sanctuary in Rajasthan. Regenta Resort has 50 rooms, including Royal Suites, Club Rooms and Family Suites, as well as executive suites. It also comes with an in-house restaurant and two function halls. Bharatpur is a popular winter destination for North […]
Hotel Leelaventure, one of India’s biggest hotel groups, said it missed yet another interest payment on debt issued to Life Insurance Corporation of India. “The company has defaulted in payment of quarterly interest of Rs 212.67 lakhs, which was due on 19 September, 2018,” it said in a statement. Leela had raised debt of Rs […]
Facebook has refused to block a ‘drinker’s group’ that the Kerala Police had requested to be taken down, according to local media reports. The social network reportedly told the police that the group was not in violation of its guidelines and cannot be taken down without proper justification. The Kerala Excise department is trying to […]
Cox & Kings said it subsidiary MEININGER Hotels and investor LGIM Real Assets have signed an agreement for a new hotel in Glasgow. The hotel will be located on West George Street opposite Queen Street Train Station and will offer 160 rooms and 590 beds and is scheduled to open in 2020. This is the […]
Royal Orchid Hotels announced the opening of its eighth new hotel this year at Nashik, the wine capital of India. ‘Regenta Resort Soma Vine Village’ has 32 rooms with “varied” dining and banquet facilities, the hotel chain said. With this, the total number of hotels in the chain has reached 49. Chander Baljee, Managing Director […]
Club Mahindra, the holiday company owned by Mahindra & Mahindra, said it purchased two non-operating companies that have started ‘villa construction’ business in Sweden. The acquisition of the companies were done at a nominal price of 50,000 Swedish Kronas (Rs 4 lakh) each. The two companies were established recently, in October last year, under Swedish […]
Bangladesh beat USA to emerge as the top source of tourists to India in January. The country contributed 16.4% of India’s foreign tourists for the month, followed by USA with 14.1% and UK with 10.8%. Delhi International Airport accounted for the highest number of foreign tourist entries into India, with 28% of all foreign tourists […]
Royal Orchid Hotels said it opened its 48th hotel in Pushkar under the name of ‘Regenta Resort Fort’. “We are taking continuous steps towards expanding our presence all over India,” said Chander K. Baljee, Managing Director, Royal Orchid Hotel. The chain has opened seven properties – Mysore, Ahmedabad, Dehradun, Kanpur, Dwarka, Indore and Pushkar in […]
Royal Orchid Hotels announced the opening of its new hotel in the pilgrimage town of Dwarka in Gujarat. “We are taking continuous steps towards expanding our presence all over India. The new hotel launch in Dwarka is one such move towards our aim,” said Chander K. Baljee, Managing Director, Royal Orchid Hotels. The company has added […]
Royal Orchid Hotels said it opened a new hotel in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, taking the number of properties under Royal Orchid group to 45. “Situated at the heart of the city, “Regenta Central The Crystal” is a perfect blend of modern amenities and traditional Indian hospitality,” the hotel group said. It said the hotel is […]
Royal Orchid Hotels said it had tied up with Bespoke Hotels of the UK to market each others’ properties to their customers. Bespoke manages over 200 hots with 9,500 hotel rooms, 8,000 employees and £815 million of assets. “Royal Orchid now has the ability to offer its guests hundreds of hotel options across multiple global […]
