The Fern Hotels & Resorts, an environmentally sensitive hotel chain, will open six more hotels in the first half of the calendar year. This will take the tally to 88 operational properties across 70 locations by June 2022, Suhail Kannampilly, CEO of the hotel chain, said.
The company will open two more hotels in Gujarat, further expanding its footprint to 24 properties in the state. One of the resorts in Jamboghoda, Gujarat, is spread across 6 acres of land and will have 108 rooms.
Similarly, it will open two new hotels in Maharashtra, one in Navi Mumbai with 76 keys and another in Lonavala, with 24 villa rooms. Besides, the other two hotels will be in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh and another luxurious tent resort in the Union Territory of Diu with 90 rooms. Altogether, the company will add 393 keys in the first half of the year, which will take the overall key count to over 5100.
Informing the expansion of the Fern Hotels during the past few months, he said, “Despite the terrible second wave which impacted the hospitality industry very badly, we still opened new hotels in Pune, Haridwar and Hubballi.”
Expressing his optimism about the business growth for the hospitality industry in the ensuing financial year, he said, “We hope that the worst of the covid is behind us, and we are expecting improved occupancies and ARRs”.
The Fern Hotels & Resorts is India’s leading environmentally sensitive hotel chain and amongst the fastest growing hotel brands in India, with 88 hotels & resorts currently operational under management or opening shortly across 70 locations in India and internationally, under The Fern, The Fern Residency, The Zinc by The Fern and Beacon Hotels brands. The company is a part of CG Corp Global, a multi-dimensional Nepalese conglomerate.
