Hotelier India - May 2018

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The change in a company’s title is apparently not the most important thing; what truly matters is the value the titular transformation will bring to everyone associated with it. That is what the Radisson Hotel Group now has to prove, after adopting a new name from its erstwhile Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group. In our cover story this issue, Katerina Giannouka, president for APAC, and Raj Rana, CEO for South Asia of Radisson Hotel Group discuss the organisation’s five-year plan and how this will help it build on its own value creation capabilities. As the hotel chain rapidly ramps up its presence in APAC, it has created a better-defined brand architecture that includes eight brands encompassing full- service luxury to economy select-service. The company has once again put owners-first to get on the fast lane of the road to growth, in its bid to claim the top three spot in the hospitality landscape. Our special feature in this issue dwells on how the entire ecosystem involved in hotel design and development are trying to implement innovative building materials in their projects. We unearth the various practices that leading hotels have adopted to keep cost in check while designing properties and how they improve equipment optimisation by working with the right brands. We also find out the criteria that hotel project heads, designers and architects have when it comes to investing in specific solutions and how they evaluate the benefits of investing in these keeping overall project cost and execution in perspective.