The company has hotels in Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Navi Mumbai, New Delhi and Visakhapatnam with a new 280-room property in Hyderabad due to open in October 2009 and its first resort in Kerala by late 2009. It is also opening new hotels in Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, Kolkata and Pune and Jaipur
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What gave you the idea for design-led hotels in India?
Well the company is over 40 years old, and the first hotel started in Calcutta in 1967. By the 1990s we had three properties of varying degrees of look and feel so we started to develop the idea of boutique or designer hotels, primarily because we felt that we were small and we had to develop a niche to stand out in the market. The first property that was reconceptualised and launched was the Park in Kolkata and then we moved to Delhi and by the late nineties we had acquired properties in Bangalore and Chennai and then developed another property in Navi Mumbai. So it all came together at the turn of the century. Now we own the niche in India and if anyone's looking for an alternative lifestyle type of hotel, it's us.
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