ICC Cricket World Cup means brisk business for India
Cricket World Cup, businesses in India are also set to gain from the matches. The tournament will be held from October 5 to November 19 and played across 10 venues in Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Dharamsala, Delhi, Chennai, Lucknow, Pune, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Kolkata. The pandemic left the hospitality sector ravaged, which has now limped back to normalcy.
The G20 meetings being held across cities have come as a boost, and so has the Cricket World Cup.Hotel tariffs soar The hotel industry is already starting to have a good innings with soaring tariffs. In Ahmedabad, where the Men in Blue will face archnemesis Pakistan on October 15 at India’s largest cricket stadium, most five-star hotels have 60%-90% of their rooms already booked for the match days, TOI has reported. «About 80 per cent of the rooms for the match days are sold.
For the opening ceremony and the first match between England and New Zealand, bookings have already been made by travel agencies from England and major corporations,» Punit Baijal, general manager, Hyatt Regency Ahmedabad, has told TOI. Hyatt, one of the leading five-star hotels, is charging a whopping Rs. 1,10,000 for a night on October 13 (no room is available for October 14 or 15), on MakeMyTrip and its subsidiary Goibibo.
However, in August and September, rooms are available under Rs. 7,500. Other five-star hotels, Radisson Blu and ITC, are charging Rs.
28,000 to 35,000 on October 13. In these hotels too, rooms aren’t available on the 14th and 15th. These rooms cost upto Rs.
9,999 in August and September. Not just in Ahmedabad, hotels are showing high tariffs for the match days even in Dharamsala where the HPCA stadium is hosting the Kiwis against India on October 22. Dharamsala, a small town in the
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