Ginger plans 7 new hotels in 18 months

With a view to enhancing its pan-India footprint, the Ratan Tata-run Indian Hotels Company Ltd’s (IHCL) subsidiary, Roots Corp., is opening seven new Ginger-brand hotels over the next one-and-a-half years.“We currently have 14 operational hotels across the country and are opening seven new Ginger hotels in various cities in the next one-and-a-half years,” Roots Corp.’s chief executive officer Prabhat Pani said.The hotels would be opened in Ludhiana, Ahmedabad, Mangalore, Guwahati, Jamshedpur, Pune and Durgapur, he said. “The Ludhiana and Ahmedabad hotels will be opened in the next two months followed by Guwahati, Mangalore and Durgapur by March 2009. The hotels at Pune and Jamshedpur will be operational by early FY 10,” he said.