Global hospitality group Accor has launched its luxury brand Raffles in India with the signing of two properties, one each in Jaipur and Udaipur in Rajasthan. Accor is looking to add 24 hotels in India in the next three years and adding around 4,000-5,000 people to its workforce.

Currently, the group has 51 hotels in India having around 10,000 workforce across all its properties. Accor currently has 4,800 hotels with 3,00,000 workforce across the world.

The Raffles Udaipur, to be set up on a 21 acre private island in the midst of Udai Sagar Lake, is expected to be operational in mid-2020, while Raffles Jaipur being built at Kukas is likely to commence operations in 2022. There will be 101 rooms and suites in Udaipur and 55 suites in Jaipur.

Accor is present in 19 states and 22 cities, and going forward the company is planning to expand in cities where it is already present and also hopes to venture into those destinations where IndiGo Airlines begins its services, with which it has a partnership.