Hotels reviews

The world may have been financially struggling in 2010 and the travel industry suffering, but Starwood Hotels & Resorts went ahead and pulled in $5.1 billion in revenue, anyway. After all, if you’re on a trip in pretty much any city in the world, you’ve got a pretty good chance of staying in one of Starwood’s more than 1,000 hotels. More >

With a bright, airy lobby decorated with colourful seating and stained-glass installations, the Lemon Tree Gurgaon promises cost-conscious travellers a respite from the hustle of a busy New Delhi satellite city. More >

The hotel space in Gurgaon, the business hub in the national capital region, is heating up. Oberoi Hotels on Tuesday inaugurated its first luxury hotel there, right next to the Trident property, under a management contract with Orbit Resorts.

Both, the new Oberoi Gurgaon and the earlier Trident, are built and managed by Oberoi but under an arrangement with Orbit Resorts, which owns the land under it. The new hotel was built for Rs 400 crore and is to cater mainly to business travellers. More >

Marriott International Inc. said it plans to introduce its Fairfield Inn brand in India, part of a broader move by midtier U.S. hotel brands to try to tap into the country’s growing middle class.

The hotel operator, based in Bethesda, Md., said Wednesday it will form a joint venture with Samhi Hotels Pvt. Ltd., a hotel-investment fund, to build a Fairfield by Marriott brand in India. Construction is expected to start around year-end. More >

Global hospitality giant Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has made it official: the company will bring the W brand of hotels to India by 2015 with a 350-room property in Mumbai.

Artist’s rendering of the W’s planned Shanghai property, set to open on The Bund in 2014. More >