Heritage Hotels India |
It is not a difficult sight to come across a fortress or palace atop
an isolated hillock while visiting India. For many of the travelers,
who are not very much familiar with India, it makes them wonder if
there is anybody staying up there. It is also a matter of great
speculation about the grandeur and intrigue of former kings and
queens. While grandeur and intrigue of past has been last forever,
the mementoes are still alive, kicking, and if you wish could be
yours for a small price.
Heritage Hotels as a concept born in India as much from necessity as
from spotting an opportunity. The prime necessity was to present the
past grandeur of India to the tourists who are interested. Another
important aspect of the initiation of this concept was the saving an
important part of Indian heritage. The owners of the great havelis
and palaces were not wealthy enough to maintain these huge buildings
and these palaces were now falling prey to disuse and neglect.
Here then was the opportunity to kill two, nay three, birds with one
stone. If some of these fascinating palaces, forts and havelies
could be converted into hotels offering the ambience of medieval
Indian décor and lifestyle, they could serve as an added incentive
to visit India. In the process, the properties, with their new found
commercial angle, could be restored to their past glory by careful
restoration; and the erstwhile royalty could bask in the sunshine of
a regular income source which dried up when their principalities
were dissolved.
Heritage Hotels. - a term commonly used to include all hotels that
are being run in such restored royal properties-were thus a foregone
conclusion in the history of the Indian Hospitality Industry. And so
they were born. Reborn, rather!
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