India’s economy is booming and keeping pace with it is India’s boom
in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry. There is an enormous
influx of business travelers from all over the country and around the
world, especially into Delhi, the world’s eighth largest metropolis and
emerging international business hub.
The business traveler is a businessman or corporate
executive traveling for business, who opens offices in the hotel
premises during start-ups, make extended stays for long duration
projects or while waiting for permanent accommodation (primarily
expatriates) and convention arrivals. While senior executives usually
stay in the five star hotels, the middle level executives, who are much
larger in number, prefer to stay at a budget hotel. The latter demand
smaller discounts, use more of facilities such as PC’s, net, fax,
multi-media, conference halls and to the advantage of the food and
beverage section, tend to eat in the hotel itself due to busy schedules!
North
zone Delhi is the largest commercial hub in the region. As a business
center Delhi is often referred to as the NCR, National Capital Region,
which includes the satellite mega-business cities of Noida and Gurgaon
as well. Business visitors and trade delegates often prefer staying in
the business or corporate hotels of Delhi, as they are now called, to
enjoy all the facilities, comforts, courteous and speedy service they
offer and to do business away from home or office at ease, without
having to leave the hotel even !. Connaught Place, or ‘CP”, is the
center of Delhi city’s commercial core. It is located quite nearby the
center of international trade, diplomatic enclaves, embassies, shopping
centres, government agencies, and so on. Ten minutes from Connaught
Place is Karol Bagh, Asia’s largest retail market. There are literally
hundreds of luxury and corporate budget hotels in this CP- karol bagh
axis.
Most business travelers looking for a corporate hotel in
Delhi go online and come across a huge list of hotels to choose from.
Obviously, hotels that offer the best service at the lowest rates are
preferred. There are hotels in Delhi which offer the best online
guarantee for the same category of rooms on the same date. This
facilitates ones stay in a cost-effective manner without sacrificing
convenience, luxury and business ease.
Many
hotels in Delhi organize corporate packages. Mostly every budget hotel
in Delhi provides amenities like conference rooms, office supplies,
broadband internet, restaurants, banquets, lounges and meeting space,
direct dial from rooms. Complimentary airport/railway drop and pick-ups
are a common feature. Car rentals and taxis to every nook and cranny of
the city are a dime a dozen.
Who doesn’t want to live and work in
style. More and more people in India, not just in the metropolitan
cities like Delhi, definitely aspire to – and why not? In fact today,
people in most towns and cities, even the affluent in villages, look
towards Delhi city for life style choices and standards. For business
travelers a hotel in delhi is a dream come true making even business a
pleasure.