India’s room inventory is rapidly expanding with companies like Hyatt, Starwood, Taj Group and Oberoi opening properties in city and suburban locations.
Hyatt debuted the 185-room, 24-suite Park Hyatt Hyderabad in April in the city’s upscale Banjara Hills area between the airport, HITEC City and downtown.
“Park Hyatt Hyderabad is the first hotel in India to feature Hyatt’s residential-style meeting concept,” says Kapil Agarwal, vice president of sales and marketing for Hyatt International, South West Asia. “Named The Manor, the meeting facilities are designed in a comfortable and welcoming style to reflect the entertainment spaces of private homes. This unique concept offers small and midsize groups a personal, tailor-made meetings experience.”
Hyatt is also focusing on another Indian high-tech center: Bangalore. It will open the Hyatt Place Bangalore in the city’s IT corridor by the end of the year and has plans for three more hotels there: two Hyatt Regency properties and a Grand Hyatt.
Taj Hotels, Resorts and Palaces is another company looking toward India’s high-tech centers for growth. It recently opened the 324-room Vivanta by Taj Yeshwantpur and Vivanta by Taj Begumpet in Hyderabad. In Gurgaon, a financial center on the edge of Delhi, Taj will open Vivanta by Taj Gurgaon this fall and has plans to debut the Vivanta by Taj Dwarka in mid-2013 in southwest Delhi.
The Oberoi Group will soon open its 325-room Trident, Hyderabad in the heart of the city’s high-tech hub and close to its convention center. The hotel will include a spa and be geared for small meetings, with 1,400 square feet of function space and two boardrooms.
The company added the 202-room Oberoi Gurgaon in the Delhi region to its portfolio last year. The hotel can accommodate meetings of up to 1,000 attendees in its two ballrooms and 10 function rooms.
