Carlson opens a new Park Plaza in Coimbatore - in Madurai and Munnai in near future

Carlson Hotels has recently opened a new Park Plaza hotel and its 40^th operational location in India in Coimbatore, by signing a management contract with Sabari Group. The company further plans to have over 100 operating hotels in India by 2015 with its capacity touching over 10,000 rooms by then. The company has several brands in its portfolio namely Radisson, Country Inns & Suites By Carlson, Park Inn by Radisson and Park Plaza. The upcoming properties will be a mix of all the Carlson brands. Also, the new hotels will be pre-dominantly a combination of franchise and management agreements (majority of the new signings are management contracts). The company may consider co-investment with a strategic partner for a few hotels in high visibility locations.

Presently, Carlson is looking for management opportunities in key locations such as Munnar and Madurai but no properties have been signed as yet at these locations. The company has six hotels in Tamil Nadu out of which three are operational (including Park Plaza Coimbatore) and developing various properties in the states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, most of them are managed properties. Carlson is also expecting to increase the number of rooms with existing franchisees. It is negotiating with existing owners for multiple hotels as well as new potential owners however most of them will be management agreements.

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Hotel Radha Chariot Beach Resorts opens hotel in Madurai Coimbatore Pondicherry and Thanjavur

Chariot Beach Resorts, owned by Hotel Radha Pvt. Ltd., is spreading its wings and planning to open four new hotels and would invest Rs. 65 crore by opening hotels in Puducherry, Madurai, Coimbatore and near Thanjavur.

All these hotels would house 35 to 40 rooms and would be ready in the next two years. The required resources would be raised by selling around 40 acres owned by the company near Mahabalipuram.

As part of the expansion schemes, Chariot on Tuesday officially launched an activity centre on 30 acres dedicated to both inbound and outbound team building exercises along with adventure sports to benefit the corporate world.

These hotels are mainly focusing on Tourists and IT Companies, BPO Companies and Manufacturing companies and Corporates for team building exercises.

Medical Tourism in Madurai - Meenakshi mission plans to open new hospital in Madurai and Thanjavur

In an attempt to redirect medical tourism opportunities from Chennai to smaller cities like Madurai and Thanjavur, which are popular tourist destinations for foreigners, Meenakshi Mission Hospital is planning to set up two hospitals, in Madurai and Thanjavur, with a combined investment of Rs 370 crore.

The 350-bed Madurai hospital will be built with an investment of around Rs 300 crore. It would have all major specialties like cardio, orthopedic, gastroenterology and nephrology, among others. The hospital has already signed a Rs 150-crore loan agreement with HDFC Bank for the project. The hospital in Thanjavur would be smaller with 200 beds and entail an investment of Rs 70 crore, of which Rs 50 crore would be loan component and the promoters would fund the rest through equity investment.

It is believed that Meenakshi mission has opened SunShine, a hotel an year back as a part of hospitality industry and that kind of shows a signal of the strategy and direction of the company.

All the Best Meenakshi Mission Hospital and wishing you a grand success in the ventures!

Heritance Hotel Madurai - A New Star Hotel in Madurai

HERE is a chance to stay with the comfort of a star hotel, designed to world - class standards, the next time you travel to Madurai.

ETL Infrastructure’s first hospitality venture ‘Heritance Madurai’ is now ready for launch on April 25 in Madurai at 9 a.m. The Heritance Madurai hotel, in terms of the architecture, has a distinctive flavour of its own.

The city announced its entry into a premier league of luxury hotels with the soft launch of a five-star category urban heritage resort on Friday. ‘Heritance Madurai,’ a venture of Chennai-based ETL Hospitality Services, has come up on the sprawling premises of the erstwhile Madura Coats Club here.

Addressing a press conference on the occasion, S. Thiagarajan, Chief Executive Officer, ETL Infrastructure Services, of which ETL Hospitality is a subsidiary, said that the construction materials for the resort were sourced locally as were a lot of construction personnel. Of the 17.18 acres, the hotel occupied 11 acres.

“Madurai is a gateway to the tourist circuits of south Tamil Nadu and Kerala,” he said. Emphasis had been laid on making it environment-friendly. No toxic material had been used. The place was totally asbestos-free and only biodegradable materials were used. Efforts were on to get the U.S. company ‘Leeds’ to rate the building as “green.”

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