India Hotel Industry Requires 150,000 Rooms in the Next 3 years- Tourism Secretary

India needs 150,000 hotel rooms over the next three years, two-thirds of which would be rooms meant for budget hotels, as the tourism industry revives, tourism secretary told reporters on Thursday. The inbound tourist traffic “is doing very well. We have positives for January, February and March,” Sujith Banerjee told reporters on the sidelines of an industry conference in Mumbai.

He also said 70 percent of the hotel infrastructure needed for the upcoming Commonwealth Games later this year have been completed. The Games are scheduled to be held in New Delhi in October.