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New Delhi: It currently has 134 hotels with 67 in the pipeline and is in talks for signing up several more properties. &ldquo;We will hit the 200-hotel mark in India by 2025. The travel recovery here post-Omicron has been phenomenal and we have now stopped referring to pre-Covid levels (for both room rates and occupancies) as we surpassed those levels this May itself,&rdquo; Marriott International area VP (south asia) Ranju Alex told TOI.
&ldquo;In the last 22 months, during the pandemic, we have signed 24 hotels in India. All&nbsp;countries are behaving very differently (in terms of post-pandemic travel recovery) depending on the easing of restrictions. India is on a huge trajectory. We are growing exponentially and opening 14-20 hotels every year here. The rate of growth being seen in India is fantastic and it is a focus country as far as the global platform is concerned,&rdquo; Alex said.
According to a report by hospitality consultancy firm Hotelivate earlier this year, Taj has the highest number of hotels in India but Marriott has the largest room inventory in India &ldquo;due to (Taj&rsquo;s) lower rooms per hotel ratio compared to Marriott.&rdquo;
As India came out of Omicron wave, Marriott saw this April business numbers come very close to same month of 2019. &ldquo;We breached pre-Covid levels in most of our hotels in May 2022. Room rates are now 20% higher than pre-Covid level on a month-on-month basis. We have left 2019 far behind,&rdquo; she said. Occupancy recovery is different on a city-by-city basis with few places like Bengaluru and Hyderabad, dependent on IT travel, yet to fully recover to 2019 levels.
International travel is yet to fully recover due to issues like visa delays and high airfares. &ldquo;Domestic travel is back 105% of 2019. We were hoping to reach 100% of international inbound this October-December. Sadly that didn&rsquo;t happen in October for a number of reasons and we are optimistic will happen this month and the next. The profile of international inbound is all across ranging from visiting friends and relatives to business. Leisure inbound has also started, which is great, in places like Goa and Mussoorie. A lot of charters are back,&rdquo; Alex said.
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Marriott to reach 200-hotel mark in India by 2025 from current 134

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