Hotel boom around Delhi airport

About three km from the new terminal – T3 of the Delhi airport — is all set to become the hub of some of the most happening hotels in the capital city.

Till date, the vicinity of the airport only had the Radisson and Centaur, beside the Leela Kempinski, Trident and Courtyard Hotel in Gurgaon – all in the five-star category. But now they will come up in all shapes and sizes – five, four and even three-star..

Amongst those to come up are deluxe ones such as the JW Marriott, Hyatt Andaz and Hyatt Place, Dusit D2, Pride Hotel , Pullman, Red Fox, Lemon Tree, Ibis, Holiday Inn and Novotel. Most of these will open their doors by 2012 and are expected to create over 3,100 rooms across different pricing and categories.

With T3 in Delhi set to put India on the global airport map, hotels are also gearing up to cater to the anticipated growth in traffic.

Currently, as many as 26 million passengers fly in and out of Delhi annually, which is about 70,000 a day. The new terminal has been built for accommodating 34 million passengers annually and there are plans to expand it to cater to 100 million customers annually.