The Pullman brand made its debut in India yesterday with the opening of the Pullman Gurgaon Central Park — Accor’s 500th property in the Asia-Pacific region.
The new hotel represents Accor’s seventeenth hotel in India, with Pullman being its sixth brand in the country, alongside Sofitel, Novotel, Mercure, ibis and Formule 1. Located in New Delhi’s corporate satellite city, it features 285 rooms and over 17,000 sq-ft of meeting space.
With almost 95,000 rooms in 16 countries, Accor is in the midst of heavy expansion in Asia-Pacific, and aims to operate over 700 hotels by 2015. In India, the company anticipates operating 23 hotels by the end of the year, with a goal of 90 hotels by 2015.
“The Asia Pacific region today is one of Accor’s strongest areas of focus, as is evidenced by our rapid pace of expansion in recent years,” said Michael Issenberg, chairman and COO of Accor Asia-Pacific. “Since we commenced operations in the region in 1982, Accor’s network has grown from one hotel in Singapore to 500 hotels in 16 countries today. Two years ago we celebrated our 400th hotel in the region and the rate of expansion since has accelerated significantly as we are on track to open 100 hotels within 2012 in Asia Pacific alone.”
