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'Hiring talent challenge for hotels in south India' Chennai, Sep 4 : With 119 hotels coming up in the four southern states and 11,000 rooms likely to be added to the capacity, hiring trained manpower will be a challenge for the sector, said a hotel industry official Saturday. www.newkerala.com
Berggruen Hotels goes asset light for expansion Berggruen Hotels, a venture backed by New York-headquartered private equity fund Berggruen Holdings Inc, plans to go the asset light way. www.financialexpress.com
'Chennai hotels are sitting ducks to attacks' Chennai, Sep 4: Days after a luxury hotel located in a prime location here was attacked by a mob, hotel industry players Saturday said they have become a soft target of such attacks. www.newkerala.com
Resentment simmers in West China The five-star hotels are full, bulldozers are making quick work of dreary slums and billboards for "French-style villas" call out to the nouveau riche. In the year since rioting between the Han and Uighur ethnic groups killed nearly 200 people in this city in far western China, life appears to be returning to normal. www.hindustantimes.com
Erin Andrews gets no-peep service at hotels after stalker ordeal New York, Sep 3 : Hotels are making extra effort to ensure ESPN sportscaster Erin Andrews' safety after her recent stalker ordeal. www.newkerala.com
Hotel industry all set for expansion:SIHRA Chennai, Sep 4 (UNI) The hotel industry in the south is heading for a massive expansion with 119 new hotels set to add about 11,000 additional rooms, Mr T Natarajan, Secretary, South India Hotels and Restaurants Association (SIHRA) said today. www.deepikaglobal.com
Vivek Nair elected SIHRA Prez Chennai, Sept 4 : The South India Hotels and Restaurants Association (SIHRA) today unanimously elected Mr Vivek Nair, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Hotel Leela Venture Ltd as its new President. www.newkerala.com
Supply surge to dampen recovery in hotels' profits An expected surge in supply of premium hotel rooms may take the sheen off Indian hotel firms' plans to raise tariffs and revive profitability, though analysts expect the second half to fare better than the first. www.business-standard.com
Fasttrack India's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded at 8.8% in the April-June quarter of this fiscal - the fastest pace in nearly three years - on the back of a robust 12.4% growth in manufacturing, a comparable show by certain services industries like communications and hotels, despite a slowing of the growth in financial services and real estate. www.financialexpress.com
'No one helped me when my mom died' No one believed her. Not even her closest relatives when she told them that her mother had died. So left with no option, Shalini Mehra (49), a former hotel management graduate, lived with her mother, Vinodini Gupta's (76) dead body for four months, until Saturday when the police recovered it from their house in Saket, South Delhi. HT reports. www.hindustantimes.com
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