Premier Inn (PI), UK based budget hotel chain plans to expand network of its hotels in India.
The company plans to launch 90 hotels and 11,000 rooms in India through a mix of owned, part-owned and managed properties by 2022 in phased manner. The company has launched its third property at Pune in Maharashtra. The 109-keys hotel is likely to be opened in April 2013. This hotel will also mark the installation of pre-fabricated, pre-engineered (Pod) bathrooms for the first time in the country. These are being sourced from Unipods, a Dubai-based manufacturer of customised pre-engineered bathrooms and kitchens.
Under the Phase I of investment, Whitbread Plc, of which PI India is a subsidiary, will have invested a total of Rs 300 crore in its two existing hotels at Delhi and Bangalore and four upcoming properties at Pune, Goa and Chennai. All four of these will be operational by December 2014.