New Opening | Royal Orchid Hotels opens a wilderness resort in Kabini

With the number of owned and managed hotels crossing 70, Chander Baljee, CMD, ROHL says the target is to build a portfolio of 100 hotels and minimum 6,500 rooms by the end of FY 2022-23.

ROHL has added one more boutique resort property to their portfolio recently with the opening of Re;Gen:Ta Kabini Springs Resort on the Kerala-Karnataka border at HD Kote. The 20-room wilderness resort was an operational independent hotel which joined the ROHL portfolio after comprehensive renovation.

“The uniqueness about the Kabini property is that it is the only resort inside the wildlife park. All other hotels and resorts are outside the park,” said Chander Baljee, CMD, ROHL, while sharing the significance of the new property. “Everything is brand new apart from the old structure,” he said, explaining the kind of renovation that the property has undergone since the owner decided to join the ROHL portfolio.

Spread over 10 acre of land, the resort offers a lot of free space for the guests as rooms are built in five blocks with four rooms each. “It has a very peaceful location abutting a river,” Baljee said. Because of the small inventory, the resort offers a lot of personalised care and service to the guests coming to the property, he said.

As part of the renovation, the property has added a nice pool to the facility. “Because of the property’s proximity to Kerala, we expect a lot of week-end traffic from the Kerala side into the resort,” Baljee informs.

With the new addition, ROHL has crossed the 70 mark in terms of number of hotels under operations. ROHL already have a significant footprint in the wilderness destinations. The company has resorts in Ranthambore and Pench; and in important bird sanctuaries like Bharatpur and Mysore.

Baljee said that ROHL has added 15 new hotels in the last two years, especially during the Covid19 pandemic, and is poised to add another 15 soon. “Our target is to reach 100 hotels by the end of the next financial year 2022-23,” he said. With this growth, he said that the hotel group will be able to add another 2000 rooms to its existing inventory of 4,500 rooms.

He said that the trend of independent hotels joining the bandwagon of ROHL will continue as they will be able to leverage the benefits of well-defined and proven SOPs, sales and marketing support; and advanced technology platforms.