Question : DEMAND-SUPPLY OF HOTEL ROOMS

(a) whether any study has been undertaken by the Hotel Association of India on the demand-supply scenario of the hotel rooms upto 2020 to help investments in this sector;

(b) if so, the details thereof; and

(c) the current shortage of hotel rooms in the country and how far the study will help the industry to gear up and invest in this sector?

THE MINISTER OF TOURISM AND CULTURE (SMT. AMBIKA SONI)

(a): No, Sir.

(b): Does not arise.

(c): Ministry of Tourism estimates a shortage of 1, 50,000 hotel rooms in the country by 2010.