One of the best-known Indian brands globally in luxury hotels is Oberoi Hotels. The operators of the Oberoi and Trident hotels also have properties under the Vilas brand. EIH Ltd has a portfolio of 12 hotels in India and nine abroad, and it also takes other hotels on management contracts for a fee. Their offerings are present in India, Egypt, Indonesia, Mauritius, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Now, they have set their sights a little further away, in the UK.

Oberoi set to establish a hotel in London.

While Oberoi’s peer, the Taj Group, has been operating hotels across the US and UK for many years, the Oberoi Group did not move that far away from India. However, their exchange filings now reveal that the chain is heading into the UK.

In an exchange filing made by EIH Limited, the company that owns and operates the Oberoi and Trident brands, it revealed that its board had approved an investment in EIH London Investments Ltd, a company to be incorporated in the United Kingdom.

The company will invest GBP 15 million to set up a luxury hotel with just 11 suites and six rooms. The exchange filings revealed that the hotel is expected to become operational by the beginning of 2028.

The Taj already operates two hotels in the UK that are under the Taj brand.

A Trident Hotel is coming up in Pune.

EIH is also working on a much larger Trident Hotel in Pune. The project will include 175 rooms and suites spread across 181,000 square feet, which will be part of a 408,000-square-foot commercial development with office space and food and beverage-focused retail outlets.

Bottomline

The Oberoi Group is making its first strides into the large UK luxury market with a small luxury hotel intended to have just 17 keys, which will go live in 2028. Around the same time, the group is also working on launching a Trident hotel in Pune with 175 keys. These should be the only additions to the small set of luxury hotels that are part of the Oberoi hotel group for the coming years.

What do you make of the Oberoi group’s expansion plans?

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