(a) whether the Government have allowed the foreign companies to set up five star hotels in the country;
(b) if so, the details thereof;
(c) the places where those hotels are likely to be set up;
(d) the details of the countries who have shown interest in setting up the hotels in India; and
(e) the names and locations of these five star hotels which are functioning with foreign collaboration at present in the country?
MINISTER OF TOURISM AND CULTURE (SHRI ANANTH KUMAR)
(a): No, Sir.
(b), (c) and (d): Does not arise.
(e): Some foreign hotel chains/companies have been allowed to enter into technical collaborations with Indian hotels with approval of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board/Project Approval Board under the Ministry of Industry. Many such hotels with foreign technical collaborations are functioning in the metropolitan cities and other important tourist centres of the country.