French hospitality firm Accor signed a report 11 accommodations in India final yr and opened six properties, it stated in a statement released on Thursday. 

Signing embody luxurious lodge Fairmont Agra and premium accommodations Pullman Amritsar and Grand Mercure Jaipur Kukas. It additionally signed Novotel Bengaluru Airport Varun and ibis Styles Bengaluru Airport Varun.

The firm opened 1,000 keys throughout Novotel Mumbai International Airport, Novotel Jaipur Convention Centre, Novotel Jodhpur ITI Centre, Grand Mercure Agra, ibis Mumbai Thane, and ibis Styles Goa Vagator.

The lodge firm at the moment operates 62 accommodations in India throughout its manufacturers: Raffles, Fairmont, Sofitel, Pullman, Grand Mercure, Novotel, Mercure, ibis, and ibis Styles.

Plans For 2024

Accor is ready to open 9 accommodations this yr, together with Raffles Jaipur, Grand Mercure Goa Candolim, and Novotel Goa Panjim.

Sébastien Bazin, chairman and CEO of Accor, has stated that India is a key participant within the firm’s international imaginative and prescient. India is “a place of opportunity and growth,” he stated. 

In an interview with Skift, Bazin had stated that the corporate will profit from the enlargement of the Indian center class. This demographic is the goal group for “Ibis, Mercure, and many of the hotels in our core.”

Accor operates some of the distinguished marriage ceremony accommodations in India – Fairmont Jaipur. The success of this lodge has pushed the corporate to increase the model in India, with Fairmont properties set to return up in Udaipur, Mumbai, Shimla Fagu, and Agra. 

Over the subsequent three to 5 years, Accor is planning so as to add 30 working accommodations totaling 5,500 keys to its portfolio. 

Photo Credit: Accor opened Novotel Mumbai International Airport final yr.