Sarovar Hotels & Resorts, the hospitality chain, will open 15 hotels across the country and overseas by the end of 2019 as part of its expansion plans.

Presently, the hospitality firm has close to 80 hotels in over 50 cities. Of the 15 hotels, two hotels in Africa, one each in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Lusaka in Zambia will be opened by the end of 2018. In India, the company plans to open hotels at locations such as Jaisalmer, Gorakhpur, Katra, Dehradun and extension of a hotel in Agra in 2018.

The eight hotels that will be opened in 2019 will be in Dahisar in Mumbai, Dibrugarh, Morbi, Junagadh, Dalhousie, Bodh Gaya and Jalandhar in India and in Auxum in Ethiopia.

The upcoming hotels will be mainly under the Sarovar Portico brand, three of them will be Sarovar Premiere and one each will be under the Park Plaza and Hometel brands.