Roots Corporation (RCL), a 100 per cent subsidiary of the Tata Group-controlled Indian Hotels Co (IHCL), is planning to open 29 new Ginger hotels across the country, including 12 in Maharashtra within a period of three years.

The company will invest Rs.348 crore in two phases in the proposed hotels. In the first phase, the company will develop 17 hotels in major cities across the country, including Pantnagar, Baroda, Ludhiana, Goa, Puducherry, Delhi, Agartala, Tirupur, Guwahati, Jamshedpur, Mangalore, Paradeep and Ahmedabad. In the second phase, the company will add 12 more hotels in Maharashtra - one each in Nagpur, Aurangabad, Ahmednagar and Kolhapur, three in Pune in Hinjewadi, Chakan and Ranjangaon, and around five hotels in the Mumbai suburbs.

IHCL has developed the Smart Basic concept hotel under the brand name Ginger. The company, currently, has eight Ginger hotels with a total built-up area of 3.60 lakh sq.ft across the country, including two in Maharashtra (Pune and Nashik) and one each in Bangalore, Haridwar, Bhubaneswar, Mysore, Thiruvananthpuram and Durgapur.