Global hotels to mushroom in India

A booming tourism industry in the country has prompted over a dozen global chains -- including the Hilton, Accor, Marriott International, Berggruen Hotels, Cabana Hotels, Premier Travel Inn and InterContinental Hotels group -- to announce plans to set up over 350 five-star, four-star and budget hotels and 50 villas. The plans would roughly translate into 65,000 additional hotel rooms -- a quantum leap, considering that over the past decade the total number of hotel rooms in all categories has only grown 10 per cent to about 92,000 rooms.