An overview of the emerging trends in Indian hotel industry

The Indian hotel industry has transformed to be more practical andfunctional and this is the reason of its worldwide acceptance like neverbefore. Extensive use of technology has made it enhance the standardof services and facilities. With environment friendly services, regional preferences, market segmentation and pricing the hotel industry in India has gained a significant growth. This is prominent in every level of hotels, from luxury and boutique hotels to budget hotels. It is quite encouraging that there has been a continuous increase in the room rates and occupancy. Be it leisure travellers or business travellers from domestic or international segment this continued gains is paving pathfor more people to invest in the hotel industry of India.

Indian hospitality sector is growing and it is quite faster than othercountries in the world. With permission from government of India forforeign investment in the hotel industry, the hotel and tourism industryin India has led to more international visits to this country. For the foreigners the travel for leisure travel as well as for business travel has increased. The various reforms of the government like high level support for creating a world class infrastructure, various investment friendly schemes, etc are accelerating the industry growth. The future of this industry is dependent to a great extent on the efforts of both the private sectors as well as the government bodies.

There is a shortfall of a large number of hotel rooms in India. Both inmetro and non- metro cities investments from the leading hotel brands are making the scenario brighter for Indian hotel industry. Cities of India like Jaipur, Chandigarh, Hyderabad and Pune are emerging asremarkable growth markets. The hotel industry which was previously dependent on just a few major cities, is finding a new scope in these secondary and tertiary cities. In the larger cities of India like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, etc, there has been an increase in the travel time.

The extensive support of foreign investment and various leadinginternational hotel brands entering the Indian hotel industry is sure toshow a new level of growth in the coming few years.

Sandeep Arora is a senior chef who has been working as the Chief Chef in the top hotels of India for twelve years now. He has written many articles on the restaurant delhi. In this article he is providing us with some valuable information on the emerging trends in Indian hotel industry.