85 new hotels get signed & 46 opened in first half of 2019: JLL

According to Hotel Momentum India, H1 2019, by JLL, first half of this year witnessed 46 new hotel openings (branded) with 3,509 rooms. Besides this, the number of hotels signed (branded) in the first half of this year were 85 which will have 8,612 rooms. Domestic hotel operators dominated the hotel signings during this period where 36% of new signings are conversions of old hotels.