The Novotel Kolkata Hotel & Residences has helped transform the New Town area into a hospitality hub—and continues to innovate, finds Amit Dixit
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Over the last few years—its ghost town days a fading memory—Kolkata’s New Town has blossomed into a residential, corporate and, hold your breath, entertainment hub. Some of the credit for that has to go to the Novotel Kolkata Hotel & Residences, which has catalysed action in the areas of hospitality and F&B. First, with its own offerings, filling an obvious void, and, second, by showing the way forward. It has set the bar high too for its sister brand, ibis, which opened recently next door in its most upmarket avatar ever.
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