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Oberoi Hotels & Resorts

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Oberoi Hotels & Resorts

Type	Hotels
Industry	Hospitality
Founded	1934
Founder(s)	Late Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi
Headquarters	Delhi, India
Key people	PRS Oberoi,Vikram Oberoi,Arjun Oberoi
Products	Hotels
Parent	East India Hotels
Website	Oberoi Hotels & Resorts

The Oberoi Group is a hotel company with its head office in Delhi.^[1] Oberoi, founded in 1934, owns and/or operates 30 hotels and three cruisers in five countries. It remains one of the most decorated hotel chains in the world with many of its group hotels bagging various awards and accolades from Travel+Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler,Forbes and Galileo.^{[citation needed]}

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• 1 Awards and Accolades
• 2 Hotels
• 3 List Of Hotels
• 4 Ownership
• 5 Gallery
• 6 Notes
• 7 References
• 8 External links

Awards and Accolades[edit]

A hotel executive at The Oberoi, New Delhi.

The Oberoi Grand Hotel in Kolkata.

The Oberoi Vanyavilas, Ranthambore has been ranked amongst the top 15 resorts in Asia by the readers of Condé Nast Traveler, USA in 2012. In addition to this, The Oberoi Amarvilas, Agra has been ranked the 5th best in the world, The Oberoi Rajvilas, Jaipur is ranked the 13th best in the world and The Oberoi Udaivilas, Udaipur has been ranked the 4th best hotel in the world. The same poll ranks them as the top 4 inAsia. Oberoi Hotels and Resorts has been ranked as the Best Hotel Chain outside United States in 2007 and the Best Hotel Chain outside the United Kingdom in 2008. Trident Hotels has been ranked the ‘Best First Class Hotel Brand’ at the Galileo Express Travel World Awards for four consecutive years since 2004. The Oberoi, Mumbai has been ranked as the 'Best Business Hotel in India' by CNBC Awaaz, Travel Awards 2008.

Hotels[edit]

The foundations of the Oberoi Group date back to 1934 when Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi, the founder Chairman of the group bought from an Englishman; two properties - The Clarke's in Delhi and The Clarke's in Shimla. In the following years Oberoi, assisted by his two sons, Tilak Raj Singh Oberoi and Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi continued the expansion of their group with properties both in India and abroad.

Today, P.R.S.Oberoi is the Chairman of The Oberoi Group and his son, Vikram Oberoi and his nephew, Arjun Oberoi serve in the capacities of Joint Managing Directors at EIH Ltd and EIH Associated Hotels, the two major holding companies of The Oberoi Group.

With the addition of The Oberoi, Gurgaon, presently under the Oberoi brand, the group owns and/or operates 18 luxury hotels and 3 luxury cruisers in India, Mauritius, Egypt, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. The Oberoi, Dubai is slated to open in early 2013.

Under the Trident brand, the group owns and/or operate 9 properties in India and one property in Saudi Arabia.

The Group also operates the The Clarke's in Shimla and the Maidens Hotel, Delhi. These two properties however are not held under the Trident or under the Oberoi brand. The Clarke's, after remaining temporarily shut following its lawns caving in because of construction in the eco-sensitive vicinity, reopened on September 16, 2012.

List Of Hotels[edit]

Oberoi Hotels & Resorts

In India:

• The Oberoi, New Delhi
• The Oberoi, Bangalore
• The Oberoi Grand, Kolkata
• The Oberoi Trident, Mumbai
• The Oberoi Amarvilas, Agra
• The Oberoi Rajvilas, Jaipur
• The Oberoi Udaivilas, Udaipur (No. 4, World Best Hotels, 2012 ^[2])
• Wildflower Hall, Shimla in the Himalayas
• The Oberoi Cecil, Shimla
• The Oberoi, Motor Vessel Vrinda, Backwater Cruiser, Kerala
• The Oberoi Vanyavilas, Ranthambore in Sawai Madhopur
• The Oberoi, Gurgaon

In Indonesia:

• The Oberoi, Bali
• The Oberoi, Lombok

In Mauritius:

• The Oberoi, Mauritius

In Egypt:

• The Oberoi, Sahl Hasheesh, Red Sea
• The Oberoi Zahra, Luxury Nile Cruiser
• The Oberoi Philae, Nile Cruiser

In Saudi Arabia:

• The Oberoi, Madina

In U.A.E.:

• The Oberoi, Dubai

Trident Hotels

In India:

• Trident, Agra
• Trident, Bhubaneswar
• Trident, Chennai
• Trident, Coimbatore(under construction)
• Trident, Cochin
• Trident, Gurgaon
• Trident, Jaipur
  

  

  Oberoi Maidens Hotel, Delhi.
• Trident, Bandra Kurla, Mumbai
• Trident, Nariman Point, Mumbai
• Trident, Udaipur
• Trident, Hyderabad

Other Group Hotels In India

• Clarkes Hotel, Shimla
• Maidens Hotel, Delhi

Ownership[edit]

The Oberoi Family headed by its patriarch, Mr. P.R.S. Oberoi is the majority shareholder in EIH Ltd with 32.11% stake. Cigarettes to Hotels conglomerate, ITC Limited owns approximately 14.98% stake in EIH Ltd. To ward off pressures from ITC Ltd. whose ownership stands precariously close to the automatic open offer trigger at 15%, the Oberoi family divested 14.12% stake in EIH Ltd. to Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries Investment and Holding Pvt Ltd. The stake sale happened on August 30, 2010 for Rs. 1,021 cores valuing EIH Ltd. at anenterprise value of Rs. 7,200 crores. Recently the stake of reliance further raised from itc and it stood at 20% overall for Reliance industries

Gallery[edit]

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  Oberoi Mumbai atNariman Point
 
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  The Oberoi, Mumbai
 
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  The Oberoi Vanyavilas,Sawai Madhopur
 
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  Oberoi Rajvilas, Jaipur
 
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  The Oberoi Udaivilas,Udaipur.
 
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  The Oberoi Grand, Kolkata
 
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  The Oberoi - Zahra, NileCruiser, Egypt