Companies prefer to set up their own guest houses rather than paying huge tariffs at luxury hotels.
This will be MGM's first destination in India, and it expects to be ready by early 2014. There won't be any casino here, though.
Creating a new image for the client concerned, while making him disappear from the public domain for some time, are among the strategies that often work.
Travel agencies are blocking inventory with the hotels for the last minute travellers as supply is getting dried up.
Today, 45 per cent of India's trade is trans-shipped over other regional ports such as Colombo, even as India's container cargo is growing by 15 per cent every year. The development of a trans-shipment hub within the country would definitely help India's trade and accelerate its growth.
Hero Electric is set to test waters in the European markets with electric bikes
According to a Pricewaterhouse Coopers Report titled 'India Pharma Inc: Capitalising on India's Growth Potential', leading pharmaceutical companies in the country have increased their sales forces by around 50 per cent in 2010.
Hotels in the Capital are in for some tough times, with the Commonwealth Games not fetching many customers and the government releasing a large part of the inventory that it had earlier reserved for the event.
The sponsorship money in the bag is a tad over a quarter of what the organisers of the games had projected.
R C Agarwal, promoter of beleaguered Vishal Retail, on Wednesday came out in support of the offer from Texas Pacific Group (TPG) in preference to that from Kishore Biyani's Future Group.
For the MV Khailijia 3, one of the two ships which collided last Saturday off the coast of Mumbai, the track record does not read very well. In July, it was found that the ship had developed some cracks and had to offload its cargo mid-sea.
For those who don't wish to watch their favourite game on a television in their living room, the perfect place was to head to a nearby hotel or a pub where the whole action was simulated to give a stadium-like feel with a giant screen and hordes of football fans cheering and jeering the teams.
About a month after it was thrown open for bookings, the Games Travel Office (GTO) of the Commonwealth Games does not seem to be generating much response from tourists.
Loan defaulters will now find it difficult to rid themselves of all their liabilities through the one-time settlement scheme.
Europe's and Bangkok's loss is turning out to be gain for several other destinations like Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and Singapore.
While emerging markets have traditionally been recipients of the older cast-offs from the developed markets, in India it is completely different.
Marriott is also expanding its overall presence in the country. By 2013, it aims to have 40 hotels across categories. Out of these, five hotels -- Jaipur (Marriott), Chandigarh (JW Marriott), Bangalore (JW Marriott) and Pune (Marriott and Courtyard) -- would be opened by the end of 2010.
Tour operators are turning their attention to the coming football madness, with the World Cup tourney set to kick off in 46 days.
Hopes to launch e-scooters within two years
GM India is working on launching a BS-IV variant of the car, but is in no hurry.
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