Pune News: In a bid to support the growing demand for hotel rooms around India, Kolkata-based Hotel Hindustan International (HHI) Group of Hotels is starting its properties in Goa and Pune. The group has also earmarked a few tier II cities, which need rooms for the business segment, to build three and four-star business hotels. The property in Goa will be a five-star deluxe one, while the Pune property will be a boutique hotel.

Speaking on venturing in some faraway locations, DK Jaiswal, Chairman and Managing Director, HHI Group of Hotels said, “When we thought of branching out in Pune and Goa, we realised the growing need of hotel rooms for business and leisure guests, respectively. Pune, developing as one of the central hub for industrial congestion and Goa, gaining more and more popularity as the most exotic beach destination of India, seemed to be the perfect locations to start our ventures.”

The Goa property, which has 180 rooms along with all modern facilities that a five-star hotel can offer, will cater mainly to the leisure and the MICE sector, while the 65-room boutique hotel in Pune will be a full-fledged business hotel. Both the properties are in the midst of construction and they are slated to start their operations from March, 2009. “The HHI, Kolkata is gaining momentum with the luxury-seeking business segment. This has prompted us to invest in more business hotels. That the future of Indian hospitality lies in the three and four-star business hotels has been already proved by our business category hotels. HHI, Bhubaneswar started its operation about eight months ago and it is already enjoying 65 per cent to 70 per cent occupancy.”

Speaking further about the group’s existing properties in Varanasi and Bhubaneswar, Jaiswal informed that HHI, Bhubaneswar has a very modern and up market look with an equally strong F&B department, while the F&B department of the 20 year old Varanasi property has been revised last year. “We changed the entire look of the hotel through the renovations done in the interiors of the lobbies, rooms and outlets. We have also made major changes in the F&B service, while educating the team properly,” adds Jaiswal.

While discussing about the required manpower in all these properties, Jaiswal informed, “In order to balance the supply and demand of quality manpower in not only our setups, but in the present hospitality scenario, we already have a Hotel management Institute by the name of Regency HHI Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology, which is slated to churn out professional’s as per today’s needs. We also plan to set up another branch of it at Bhubaneswar as the demand is very high.”

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