Additionally, later this year, IHG will be opening its first Six Senses hotel in India which will be a luxury property located in Rajasthan, said Sudeep Jain, South-West Asia Managing Director, IHG Hotels & Resorts
IHG is well-positioned to capitalise on the market demand and is meaningfully expanding its presence across key markets in the country with new signings and openings, IHG Hotels & Resorts, South-West Asia Managing Director, Sudeep Jain said. In line with market demand, the company has a strong presence in the mainstream category and has 27 hotels across its Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts and Holiday Inn Express brands, he added.
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Business hotels woes continue in absence of corporate travel
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As a result, hotel chains are offering work from hotel packages, steep deals, dining and spa discounts and late check-outs. The difference in room rates between some five-star luxury hotels in leisure destinations and their city counterparts primarily targeted at business travellers in markets such as Gurgaon, Delhi and Mumbai is over 100% in some cases.
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Room rates for business and city hotels continue to spiral downwards in India in the absence of large-scale corporate travel post the Covid-19 pandemic, even as some leisure properties of chains are being sold at a premium or at 2019 levels.
The Trinamul Congress on Thursday said if the Election Commission of India could hold eight-phase Bengal polls when the positive confirmation rate reached 33 per cent by Phase 8, there was no ground to withhold the pending Assembly bypolls when that rate came down to 1.5 per cent.
A delegation of six Trinamul MPs urged the commission’s full bench to declare the Bengal bypolls at once.
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“In April 2021, during which time polls were conducted in eights phases spread across the month, there was a steep rise in daily cases of Covid-19 in West Bengal. From the middle of April 2021, at the peak of elections, the daily cases rose from approximately 6,000 cases daily to 17,000 cases,” it wrote in its memorandum to the commission.