ITC to put up hotel in Calcutta

CHENNAI, JAN. 22. The construction of ITC's first hotel project - ITC Sonar Bangla - was formally flagged off in the city by the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mr. Jyoti Basu.

In the first phase, the hotel will have 250 rooms in the super deluxe category, with scope for future expansion to meet emerging needs. The landscaping of the sprawling gardens by Bangkok's renowned landscape designers Weerappan P.L.D. Associates, will be an important aspect of the hotel. Special focus will be given to plants of the eastern region. Veterans of resort hotels in the Far East, they will lay special emphasis on tropical plants, and the region's natural water bodies. The suites in the hotel will overlook and have direct access to these especially designed gardens.

The hotel is being designed to cater to up-market global travellers in the eastern region, national and international delegates participating at conventions in the city, as well as delegates and visitors to the Science City. Planned specially for today's busy executives, the rooms will feature the latest communication infrastructure, as well as extensive banqueting and conference facilities, meeting rooms, and a state-of-the-art business centre. As demand grows with the industrial development of West Bengal and its increasing emergence as the gateway to the east, ITC Sonar Bangla has plans to add more rooms and enhance the facilities for conferences, says a release.

PTI reports:

Talking to reporters here at the ground breaking ceremony, the Chairman of ITC, Mr. Y. C. Deveshwar, said the company had decided to attach ITC prefix to all the seven star hotel properties that were being developed in Calcutta, Mumbai and Delhi to enhance the brand equity of these properties.He said for five star category hotels, these would be renamed as Welcom hotels, a departure from the current nomenclature of the Welcomgroup.

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