Taj Hotels: Difference between revisions
| Line 46: | Line 46: | ||
===The Gateway Hotels and Resorts=== |
===The Gateway Hotels and Resorts=== |
||
Gateway is a mid-market brand, positioned below the Vivanta. It contains properties in business and vacation destinations like Vivanta does. The Gateway Hotel brand was created by Taj in its earlier market segmentation effort in the 1990s, and has been retained and expanded in the |
Gateway is a mid-market brand, positioned below the Vivanta. It contains properties in business and vacation destinations like Vivanta does. The Gateway Hotel brand was created by Taj in its earlier market segmentation effort in the 1990s, and has been retained and expanded in the current wave of brand-segmentation. |
||
==Ginger== |
==Ginger== |
||
Revision as of 10:25, 23 June 2014
| File:Taj Hotel Logo.svg | |
| Company type | Public company |
|---|---|
| BSE: 500850, NSE: INDHOTEL | |
| Industry | Hospitality and Tourism |
| Founded | 1903 |
| Founder | Jamsetji Tata |
| Headquarters | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Key people | Raymond Bickson (MD & CEO) |
| Products | Hotels, resorts, palaces, Taj safaris, TajAir and spa |
| Revenue | ₹17,436.1 million (US$200 million) (FY2011)[1] |
| ₹4,201.3 million (US$49 million) (FY2011)[1] | |
| ₹1,412.5 million (US$17 million) (FY2011)[1] | |
| Parent | Tata Group |
| Website | www |
The Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL),[2] branded as Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces,[3] is an Indian chain of hotels and resorts headquartered in the Oxford House in Mumbai.[4] This company is a part of the Tata Group, one of India's largest business conglomerates. Taj Hotels Resort and Palaces owns and operates 93 hotels in 55 locations across India with an additional 16 international hotels in the Maldives, Malaysia, Australia, UK, USA, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Africa and the Middle East and employ over 13000 people.[5][6]
History
Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata, founder of the Tata Group, opened the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, the first Taj property and the first Taj hotel, on 16 December 1903. The building overlooks the Arabian Sea. He decided to open the grand luxury hotel after an incident involving racial discrimination at the Watson's Hotel in Mumbai, where he was refused entry as the hotel did not permit Indians, who were non-white.[7] Hotels which accepted only European guests were then very common across British India. Jamsetji Tata travelled to London, Paris, Berlin and Düsseldorf to arrange for materials and pieces of art, furniture and interior artefacts for his hotel.[8] The Taj Group has been active in converting former royal palaces in India into world class luxury hotels such as the Taj Lake Palace in Udaipur, the Rambagh Palace in Jaipur and Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur. In 1974, the Taj Group opened India's first international five star deluxe beach resort, the Fort Aguada Beach Resort in Goa. The Taj Group also began its business in metropolitan hotels in the 1970s, opening the five-star deluxe hotel Taj Coromandel in Chennai in 1974, acquiring an equity interest and operating contract for the Taj President, a business hotel in Mumbai, in 1977, and opening the Taj Mahal Hotel, Delhi in 1978. In 1980, the Taj Group took its first step internationally by opening its first hotel outside India, the Taj Sheba Hotel in Sana'a, Yemen and in the late 1980s, acquired interests in the Crown Plaza - James Court, London and 51 Buckingham Gate Luxury Suites and Apartments in London. In 1984, the Taj Group acquired under a license agreement each of The Taj West End, Bangalore, Taj Connemara, Chennai and Savoy Hotel, Ooty, with which the Taj Group made its foray into Bangalore. With the opening of the five star deluxe hotel Taj Bengal in Kolkata in 1989; the Taj Group became the only hotel chain with a presence in the five major metropolitan cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkatta, Bangalore and Chennai. Concurrently with the expansion of its luxury hotel chain in the major metropolitan cities, the Taj Group also expanded its business hotels division in the major metropolitan and large secondary cities in India. During the 1990s, the Taj Group continued to expand its geographic and market coverage in India. It developed specialized operations (such as wildlife lodges) and consolidated its position in established markets through the upgrading of existing properties and development of new properties. Taj Kerala Hotels & Resorts Limited was set up in the early 1990s along with the Kerala Tourism Development Corporation.[9]
Taj Hospitality Brands
Since the late-2000s, the Taj group started organising its hotels into different brands, in a market segmentation strategy. As of December 2011, not all hotels have been rebranded - some properties still retain the generic "Taj" brand and await classification.
Taj Luxury/Taj
The luxury brand is the erstwhile generic brand of the Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces. These hotels cover business destinations, landmarks, palaces, resorts and forest destinations. Most of Taj's oldest and most prestigious hotels have been retained under this brand. Two speciality brands developed under the Taj are :
- Taj Exotica, the premium resort brand in Maldives, Mauritius and Goa.
- Taj Safaris, Taj's nascent wildlife lodge brand. It is expected to cover Taj's premium, high-end forest lodges and destinations. Currently[when?], Taj's luxury lodges in the national parks of Central India carry this brand.
Vivanta By Taj
Vivanta is a contemporary-luxury hotel brand. The brand caters to an upscale market and is positioned a step below the flagship Taj brand. Vivanta Hotels are found business and vacation destinations as well.
The Gateway Hotels and Resorts
Gateway is a mid-market brand, positioned below the Vivanta. It contains properties in business and vacation destinations like Vivanta does. The Gateway Hotel brand was created by Taj in its earlier market segmentation effort in the 1990s, and has been retained and expanded in the current wave of brand-segmentation.
Ginger
Ginger Hotels is another group of economy hotel brand across India launched by the Tata Group.
Other Taj Ventures
IHCL operates Taj Air, a luxury private jet operation with Falcon 2000 aircraft designed by Dassault Aviation, France; and Taj Yachts, two 3-bedroom luxury yachts which can be used by guests in Mumbai and Kochi, in Kerala. IHCL also operates Taj SATS Air Catering Ltd., the largest airline catering service in South Asia, as a joint venture with SATS (formerly known as Singapore Airport Terminal Services). Additionally, it operates the Indian Institute of Hotel Management, Aurangabad since 1993. The institute offers a Four-year honors degree, designed with the help of international faculty and has affiliations with several American and European programmes. A 100% subsidiary of IHCL, Inditravel Limited is a travel company.
List of Taj Hotels
Hotels in India
.jpg)
| City/ Location | Hotel Brand | Hotel Name |
|---|---|---|
| Bangalore | Taj Luxury | The Taj West End |
| Chennai | Taj Luxury | Taj Coromandel |
| Hyderabad | Taj Luxury | Taj Falaknuma Palace |
| Hyderabad | Taj Luxury | Taj Krishna |
| Jaipur | Taj Luxury | Rambagh Palace |
| Jodhpur | Taj Luxury | Umaid Bhawan Palace |
| Kolkata | Taj Luxury | Taj Bengal |
| Mumbai | Taj Luxury | Taj Wellington Mews |
| Mumbai | Taj Luxury | The Taj Mahal Palace |
| New Delhi | Taj Luxury | Taj Palace Hotel |
| New Delhi | Taj Luxury | The Taj Mahal Hotel |
| Udaipur | Taj Luxury | Taj Lake Palace |
| Goa | Taj Exotica | Taj Exotica |
| Bandhavgarh National Park | Taj Safaris | Mahua Kothi |
| Kanha National Park | Taj Safaris | Banjaar Tola |
| Panna National Park | Taj Safaris | Pashan Garh |
| Pench National Park | Taj Safaris | Baghvan |
| Bangalore | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - M G Road |
| Bangalore | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Whitefield |
| Bangalore | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Yeshwantpur |
| Coimbatore | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Surya |
| Coimbatore | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Residency |
| Chennai | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Connemara |
| Chennai | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Fisherman's Cove |
| Kochi | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Malabar |
| Goa | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Fort Aguada |
| Goa | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Holiday Village |
| Hyderabad | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Hyderabad |
| Goa | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Panaji |
| Jodhpur | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Hari Mahal |
| Kovalam | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Kovalam |
| Kumarakom | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Kumarakom |
| Lucknow | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Gomti Nagar |
| Mumbai | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - President |
| New Delhi | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Ambassador Hotel |
| New Delhi | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Surajkund |
| Pune | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Blue Diamond |
| Sawai Madhopur | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Sawai Madhopur Lodge |
| Srinagar | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Dal View, Srinagar |
| Thiruvananthapuram | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Trivandrum |
| Aurangabad | Vivanta By Taj | Vivanta By Taj - Aurangabad |
| Kasaragod/Bakel | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj |
| Agra | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Fatehabad Road |
| Ahmedabad | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Ummed |
| Bangalore | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Residency Road |
| Kozhikode | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Beach Road |
| Kolkata | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Eastern Metropolitan Bypass Road |
| Chikmagalur | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel KM Road |
| Coonoor | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Church Road |
| Kochi | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Marine Drive |
| Gir Forest | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Gir Forest |
| Jaipur | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Ramgarh Lodge |
| Jaisalmer | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Rawalkot |
| Jodhpur | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Jodhpur |
| Madurai | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Pasumalai |
| Mangalore | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Old Port Road |
| Nashik | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Ambad |
| Surat | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Athwalines |
| Vadodara | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Akota Gardens |
| Varanasi | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Ganges |
| Varkala | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Janardhanapuram |
| Vijayawada | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel M G Road |
| Visakhapatnam | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Beach Road |
| Hubli | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Lakeview Hotel |
| Chandigarh | Other/ Unbranded | Taj Chandigarh |
| Chennai | Other/ Unbranded | Taj Club House |
| Gwalior | Other/ Unbranded | Usha Kiran Palace |
| Hyderabad | Other/ Unbranded | Taj Banjara |
| Hyderabad | Other/ Unbranded | Taj Deccan |
| Jaipur | Other/ Unbranded | Jai Mahal Palace |
| Jaipur | Other/ Unbranded | SMS Hotel |
| Khajuraho | Other/ Unbranded | Hotel Chandela |
| Ooty | Other/ Unbranded | Savoy Hotel |
| Kannur | Other/ Unbranded | Savoy Hotel |
| Varanasi | Other/ Unbranded | Nadesar Palace |
Hotels outside India
.jpg)
| Country | City/ Location | Hotel Brand | Hotel Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | Sydney | Taj | Blue Sydney |
| South Africa | Cape Town | Taj | Taj Cape Town |
| UAE | Dubai | Taj | Taj Palace Hotel |
| United Kingdom | London | Taj | 51 Buckingham Gate, Taj Suites & Residences |
| United Kingdom | London | Taj | Crowne Plaza London - St. James |
| United States | Boston | Taj | Taj Boston |
| United States | New York | Taj | The Pierre |
| United States | San Francisco | Taj | Taj Campton Place |
| Sri Lanka | Colombo | Taj | Taj Samudra |
| Maldives | South Male Atoll | Taj Exotica | Taj Exotica Resort & Spa |
| Maldives | North Male Atoll | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Coral Reef |
| Sri Lanka | Bentota | Vivanta by Taj | Vivanta by Taj - Bentota |
| Sri Lanka | Colombo | The Gateway Hotel | The Gateway Hotel Airport Garden |
| Bhutan | Thimphu | Other/ Unbranded | Taj Tashi |
| Zambia | Lusaka | Other/ Unbranded | Taj Pamodzi |
Awards and recognition
- In 2009 the parent entity Tata Group was ranked 11 in the world's top 100 reputable companies by Forbes Magazine[10]
See also
- Ginger Hotels - a budget hotel chain similar to Taj Hotels
- TajAir - private jets
References
- ^ a b c http://www.moneycontrol.com/financials/indianhotelscompany/profit-loss/IHC#IHC
- ^ Home. Taj Hotels. Retrieved 14 November 2012. " 2012 The Indian Hotels Company Limited All rights reserved."
- ^ "Company Introduction." Taj Hotels. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
- ^ "Contact Information" (select "Corporate Office"). Taj Hotels. Retrieved 14 November 2012. "Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces Oxford House 15/17 N.F. Road Apollo Bunder Mumbai 400,001 India"
- ^ 21 Jun 2010, 12.35AM IST,ET Bureau (21 June 2010). "Crowne Plaza, Dow Corning & Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces - The Economic Times". The Economic Times. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Taj Hotels Resorts & Palaces: Private Company Information - BusinessWeek". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
- ^ "From Parsee priests to profits: say hello to Tata - Asia, World". The Independent. 1 February 2007. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
- ^ http://www.hotelassociationofindia.com/HJ_Oct-Dec_09-Final.pdf
- ^ http://www.tajhotels.com/About-Taj/Company-Information/History-Of-Taj.html
- ^ Kneale, Klaus (6 May 2009). "World's Most Reputable Companies: The Rankings". Forbes. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
External links
| Divisions and subsidiaries |
|  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joint ventures |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former holdings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sports | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Institutions |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hospitals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trusts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| People |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
