(TAN): Hilton plans to double the company’s operational portfolio within India every three to five years.
Alan Watts, the hotel group’s president for the APAC region, who was in Bengaluru for the Hotel Investment Conference – South Asia (HICSA), said: “India is heading into an incredible cycle. With 220 new airports getting built, hundreds more new planes ordered, and India’s first bullet train project slated for completion by 2026, the pace of infrastructure build in the country is phenomenal. We strongly believe that the race for India is ahead of us.”
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“As the fastest growing hospitality company in APAC, Hilton is on course to exceed 1,000 trading hotels by 2025. We opened a record 110 hotels in 2022 and target to exceed that number this year. In India more specifically, we plan to double our operational portfolio within India every 3 to 5 years,” he added, according to a communication by advisory firm Teneo.