InterGlobe Hotels Plans Rs700 crore Investment to Add 6 Hotels in India by 2022
Main Photo: The new Ibis hotels by InterGlobe, imagined
Date: April 2019
Locations: Bengaluru, Mumbai, Thane and Goa, India
Name: Accor under their Ibis brand
No. of Keys: 980
Buyer/Developer: The project will be a joint venture between InterGlobe Enterprises and Accor, which was established in 2004 and currently has 19 properties open, with 3,559 rooms.
“By 2022 we will have up to 25 hotels in India. We will be adding 6 more hotels in the country. We will be investing around ₹700 crore for this expansion,” InterGlobe Hotels President and CEO J.B. Singh told PTI.
InterGlobe Hotels has already invested around ₹2,000 crore in the portfolio of ‘ibis’ hotels so far, Singh said.
When asked about the strategy the company follows for expansion, he said; “In our system of development, we look at almost 200 opportunities in a year where we can invest, but we have our own criteria for investment. We focus on the cities and locations where we want to be present”.
Secondly the company also follows the strategy of densifying presence in the cities where we are already present, he added.
On being asked how the InterGlobe Hotels will fund the expansion, Singh said: “It will be through a mix of debt and equity. Around 50% will be equity and 50% will be debt”.
Highlighting the need for more hotel rooms in the country, Singh said, “There is a huge need for more hotel rooms at the rate the economy is growing. There is vacuum in the mid-market segment. Opportunity here is enormous”.
InterGlobe Hotels was established in 2004 for development of the ‘ibis’ network of hotels in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Accor owns 40% stake in the JV, and InterGlobe Enterprises has a 60% stake, Singh said.
Price: Investment will around US$100m
THPT Comment: The growth of budget hotels is well over-due after a few false starts, not least of Premier Inn, through the wrong choice of local partner.
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