Rituparna Chatterjee – Mumbai
Seven Seas Hospitality, a Delhi-based catering and banqueting company, will be foraying into the hospitality business by opening a five-star 100-room property ‘Hotel Seven Seas’ in Rohini in North West Delhi. The project which will cost Rs 500 crore on completion will be spread over two acres and is expected to be operational by March 2015. The property is being developed with a major focus to tap the wedding, corporate and MICE segment and will offer 12 banquet halls with a capacity to host 6000-7000 guests. The project has been funded through internal accruals, bank and private loans. Speaking more on this project, Ramesh Dang, chief managing director, Seven Seas Hospitality stated, “We decided to focus on having a strong banqueting facility in this hotel since presently most hotels in India despite having state-of-the-art banqueting facilities do not serve a wide variety of food and the quality is also not up to the desired standard. We will focus on all these aspects and the hotel will be company run since we have the necessary expertise in this area.”
The property will boast of two nightclubs, a shopping complex of 6000 sq feet, an all-day dining multi cuisine restaurant and a specialty restaurant cum bar. Other facilities will include a health club, steam, sauna, jacuzzi and swimming pool. The group is also exploring the possibility of opening another hotel, post the completion of this ambitious project, in Gurgaon by 2016. However, this is still under planning stage.
Started in 1995, Seven Seas Hospitality owns and operates four banquet halls in Delhi and has been recording an annual growth of 20-30 per cent year-on-year.
