Accor to expand several brands in India

AccorHotels Group set plans to expand its Raffles, Mercure, Novotel and Ibis hotel brands in India. The hotel group is upping its focus on India’s leisure sector, developing luxury hotels in commercial and industrial areas and bringing its Raffles brand to the country for the first time.

“We will be signing pacts with the property owners in weeks or months,” Jean-Michel Casse, COO, India and Southern Asia, AccorHotels, said in a statement. “These luxury hotels will come up in Mumbai, Jaipur and Goa.”

The group also plans to add four additional hotels in Kochi, Chennai, Vijayawada and Kolkata, three of which will operate as Novotels while one will operate as an Ibis. These will expand AccorHotels’ portfolio of 47 hotels with 8,500 guestrooms under nine brands in 22 cities in India. Then, Accor will open another set of Mercure Hotels in Ahmedabad in 2019.