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India’s oldest and heritage hospitality property —- Great Eastern Hotel — would reopen formally in December.
Joytsna Suri, CMD of the Lalit Suri Hospitality Group, said here on Monday that though a “soft unveiling” of the hotel would be on November 19, the birthday of late Suri, the hotel’s 200-rooms in the Edwardian and new wings would go operational in December.
Of the total 70 licences and permissions for the restart of operations at the hotel, majority have been received.
“The multi-storeyed Victorian section in front of the building housing around 50 suites, however, is facing problems of carrying on the restoration work. This original Victorian section had a few tenants, who are asking for exorbitant price for vacating the premises, which we are not willing to pay,” Suri added.
She said that the section needed careful and elaborate restoration and rebuilding work.
Suri, who is the Vice-President of FICCI and chairperson of its tourism committee, was here to attend the industry body’s national executive committee meeting.
jayanta.mallick@thehindu.co.in
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