Mumbai, October 29 — Adani Airport Holdings Limited (AAHL) and The Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL) on Thursday announced a multi-hotel operating agreement to develop eight hotels comprising more than 2,000 rooms across Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Guwahati, news agency IANS reported.

Source: IANS

Under the agreement, the hotels will be developed by AAHL and operated by IHCL under its Taj, Vivanta, Gateway and Ginger brands. The portfolio comprises three Taj hotels, two Vivanta hotels, one Gateway hotel and two Ginger hotels, for business, leisure and transit travellers.

In Mumbai, a Taj hotel is planned at Terminal 2. Lucknow will have a Vivanta and a Ginger hotel, Ahmedabad a Taj and a Vivanta that are in advanced stages of development, and Guwahati a Taj, a Gateway and a Ginger hotel. The Hindu BusinessLine reported that the partnership will add 2,000 rooms over the next three to four years, and that this is the Adani Group's second such tie-up for hotel development on airport-owned land in five months — in May, the group partnered with IHG Hotels & Resorts to build five hotels around four airports.

Source: The Hindu BusinessLine

Jeet Adani, Director at AAHL, said leading airports around the world are increasingly evolving into integrated destinations that drive commerce, tourism and urban development, and that the partnership aims to strengthen the hospitality ecosystem within AAHL's Airport City developments. IHCL Managing Director and CEO Puneet Chhatwal said that with these additions, IHCL will have 25 hotels across its brands at key airports in India.

Source: IHCL / AAHL joint statement via Hospitality Net

The companies said the hotels will offer accommodation, dining, meetings and events, wellness and recreational facilities, as airport-centric developments emerge as commercial and hospitality hubs in one of the world's fastest-growing aviation markets.