ITC Hotels
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| Public | |
| Industry | Hospitality |
| Founded | 1975 |
| Headquarters | Gurgaon, India |
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Number of locations
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190 |
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Area served
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India |
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Key people
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Y C Deveshwar |
| Owner | ITC |
| Website | Official site |
ITC Hotels is India's second largest hotel chain with over 100 hotels.[citation needed] Based in the Hotels Division Headquarters at the ITC Green Centre in Gurgaon, New Delhi, ITC Hotels is also the exclusive franchisee of The Luxury Collection brand of Starwood Hotels and Resorts in India. It is part of the ITC Limited (formerly India Tobacco Company) group of companies.[1][2] ITC Hotels is regularly voted amongst the best employers in Asia in the hospitality sector.[3]
History
ITC Limited entered the hotel business on 18 October 1975 with the opening of a hotel in Chennai, which was renamed Hotel Chola.[4] In 2006, ITC hotels owned and operated 100 hotels in 75 locations.[citation needed] ITC Hotels have a reputation of playing host to visiting royalty and world leaders time and again.[5][6][7][8]
ITC Restaurants Bukhara, Peshawari, Dakshin, DumPukht and Kebabs & Kurries are well known cuisine brands today. They market a line of food products, Kitchens of India.[9]
ITC Hotels has one of the most extensive art collections in India. A museum of their collection is being planned in Kolkata.[10] ITC Grand Bharat[11] is their latest hotel established in Manesar, Gurgaon.
ITC brands
The group today operates under several distinct brands:
- Luxury Collection Hotels
- Sheraton Hotels
- Fortune Hotels, which has 54 hotels with 4,446 rooms in 41 cities across India[12]
- Welcom Heritage Hotels
Art collection
Since 1975, ITC Hotels has collected a bank of art by over 50 artists including some of India’s contemporary artists like A.G. Subramanyam, Krishan Khanna, Jatin Das, Ram Kumar, M.F. Hussain, F.N. Souza, J. Swaminathan, Tyeb Mehta, Anjolie Ela Menon, Akbar Padamsee, A. Ramachandran, Satish Gujral, Meera Mukherjee, Jamini Roy, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Sanjay Bhattacharjee, Gopi Gajwani, Biren Dey, Kim Michael, G.R. Santosh and Arpita Singh.
References
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