Lemon Tree plans to add 15 hotels by March 2019

Hospitality chain, Lemon Tree Hotel Company plans to add up to 15 hotels with over 1,200 rooms across India by FY19. 

The company, which has 40 hotels with 4,300 rooms in 24 cities across the country, is looking at Siliguri, Mumbai, Patna, Amritsar, Gangtok, Jammu, Lucknow, Kolkata and Coimbatore for its new properties.

Vikramjit Singh, President, Lemon Tree Hotel Company, said, "We plan to open up to 15 hotels across India by the end of next fiscal year as part of our expansion plans. This would add over 1,200 rooms to our present room inventory."

Lemon Tree Hotels is also focusing on the leisure destinations going forward.

Singh said, "We are aiming to tap the leisure destinations with a focus on domestic travellers as they constitute around 85 per cent of our customers across the chain."