The promoters who own the Leela brand will also be transferring the label to Brookfield for all hospitality businesses.
India metros are travellers' paradise when it comes to accommodation.
Reader Chandrappa sent us this picture from Bangalore.
Girish M C had an opportunity to service batting ace Sachin Tendulkar's laptop at his hotel suite when he was in Bangalore for fitness training at the National Cricket Academy.
The film has been directed by Anjali Menon.
The company is confident that more hotel owners will be keen to associate themselves with the Hilton brand, the second-biggest hotel chain globally after Marriott.
Can a woman stay in the same hotel room with a man she is not married to or vice versa? Seems an outdated question in this day and age? Not exactly, says the hospitality industry.
'Three manufacturing sectors can create jobs by the million: Apparel, food, and electronic assembly.' 'Let's talk to them and ask them what it would take to scale by a factor of ten,' suggests Naushad Forbes.
Reader Mathan Sankar sent us this pictures from Bangalore.
Reader Sudesh Prasad sent us a picture of Vijay Amritraj from Bangalore.
Announcing its India expansion plans, Country Inns and Suites by Carlson on Thursday said it would increase its total number of hotels to 25 by 2012 with the development of new properties across the country.
The body of Pawan Kumar, the 26-year-old techie from Karnataka who allegedly committed suicide at a hotel in New Jersey last month, was brought at the Bangalore International Airport by an Indian Airlines flight.
What is required is boring leadership that ensures that the basics are right and not genius leadership that dreams of bullet trains, says Aakar Patel.
Hong Kong-based hotel group Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts on Friday opened its first hotel in India at Chennai and announced that it would open four more hotels in the country
Security concerns have forced authorities to disable the "virtual tour" of Hotel Maurya Sheraton where United States President Barack Obama will stay during his visit to New Delhi beginning November 7.
A reader sends this photograph taken with actress Hema Malini.
The Domina Hotel Group, Italy's largest hotel and resort operator, will start operations in India in the next two years.
Excerpts from CNBC-TV18's exclusive interview with Sushil Gupta and Vivek Nair.
Indian paceman Shanthakumaran Sreesanth has been asked by the national cricket board to explain an altercation he had with the staff of a Bangalore hotel during the weekend.
New York-based Berggruen Holdings' Indian hospitality venture Berggruen Hotels on Monday announced plans to set up 38 budget hotels over the next five years at an investment of $100 million.
Police said she was picked up from a hotel in south Delhi.
The New York-based Citigroup Property Investors will invest up to $120 million in Bangalore-based Nitesh Estates' luxury hotels.
The Indian Hotels Company has got four brands to cater to different markets.
The actor and the tennis star reportedly met in Bangalore.
Nearly 52,000 new hotel rooms are expected to be added in India over the next five years on rising demand from travellers as global economic conditions improve.
These will be business and mid-market hotels that will sport brands such as Hilton, Hilton Garden Inn and Homewood Suites by Hilton (a long stay product). India is the second most important market for Hilton in Asia-Pacific after China, and accounts for 17 per cent of the 300-odd new hotels it plans to add in the region by 2017. It also expects India to account for 15-20 per cent of its revenues in the Asia-Pacific region by 2015.
The Bangalore police have warned the touring Pakistan cricket team to stay indoors after practice sessions and not to venture out in the open due to security reasons.
Analysts say hotel room rates in India are among the highest in the Asia Pacific, rising by 20 per cent annually.
BJP candidate Rajeev Chandrasekhar's wife and son who keep themselves far from the political limelight reveal what it is like to campaign for the first time.
The Leela Palace and Resorts, a reputed chain of hotels in the country, has drawn up ambitious plans to come up with three hotels in Chennai, Udaipur and Delhi within the next three years, according to its chairman C P Krishnan Nair.
'I (had) never read a book in my life and I started doing that as well. Getting up in the morning, spending a good quality time at the rehab centre and focusing on everything, connecting myself, my brain and my body with the rehab and it helped me really well to recover a little faster.'
The 36 India probables were imparted 'Bono' therapy in a bid to enhance creativity and thinking as the skills specific camp began.
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