Fortune Park Hotels, a wholly owned subsidiary of ITC, is planning to add
more properties to its existing network of 32 by end-December 2010.
On 2 February 2010, the company inaugurated its 32nd property Fortune Park
Vallabha in Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. Fortune Park Vallabha is owned by VA
Hotels, a group that has interests in property development, hospitality,
infrastructure construction and retail businesses. The Rs 35-crore project has
been set up by a group of NRIs and local business partners.
Fortune Park plans to set up six hotels in the NCR and one each in Kolkata
and Gandhinagar (Gujarat) while that at Thane (Maharashtra) will also have a
hospital project.
Besides, the company has signed up 57 alliances with a total capacity of
4,669 rooms across 43 cities. Of this, 32 are operational at present and 25
hotels are in various stages of development.