Hotel Leela Venture rallied as much as 15 percent in early trade on Tuesday as the company sold its IT park building in Chennai.
Forex loans raised by infrastructure and manufacturing companies can be used to retire rupee loans. Now, hotel companies too could do the same. This facility of replacing expensive rupee loans with cheap foreign exchange loans was extended to hotel companies as well.
Debt ridden Hotel Leela Venture expects to receive Rs 620 crore from sale of non-core assets.
The Leela Palaces Hotels and Resorts today said it plans to add up to 1,500 rooms in the next five years, taking the total to 3,500.
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On Wednesday, Hotel Leela Venture signed a pact with Travancore Enterprises to transfer its hotel property in Kerala to a special purpose vehicle (SPV). Hotel Leelaventure's vice-chairman Vivek Nair told CNBC-TV18 that the major reason to sell their Kerela hotel property was to reduce their debt burden.
CNBC-TV18’s Nayantara Rai caught up with Leela's vice chairman and managing director Vivek Nair at the opening of the new hotel and asked him whether ITC's near 13% stake in Leela was seen as a threat and if the company was ringfencing itself from a possible takeover.
In an exclusive interview with CNBC-TV18, Vivek Nair vice-chairman of Hotel Leela confirms that the company is all set to foray into real estate development in order to cut its debt. The conversion of land banks into up market residential homes in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune is believed to raise Rs 950 crore for the company.