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1. Clarks Safari has recently entered Madhya Pradesh. Tell us more about your Rewa property. A: We’re excited to expand our footprint with a new 100-room resort at Rewa Eco Park. Nestled in the serene landscapes of the Vindhya Range, the property is designed as a nature-centric retreat, combining sustainable architecture with modern comforts. Key features include a thoughtfully curated restaurant, lush gardens, and a spacious banquet hall—ideal for leisure and events alike. Guests can enjoy immersive nature experiences such as guided walks, birdwatching, and wildlife safaris, while the resort also contributes to local employment through our ‘Vocal for Local’ initiative. Every element of the property—from design to cuisine—reflects our commitment to sustainability and authentic hospitality.   2. Clarks Safari has signed several new properties. Can you share your expansion plans? A: We’re among India’s fastest-growing hospitality brands and plan to add 1,000 keys to our portfolio by FY 2025–26. Currently present in Rajasthan, Gujarat,and Uttarakhand, we aim to deepen our presence through a strategic mix of revenue-sharing and management contract models. The coming months will see us announcing several new signings across the country.   3. You’ve launched a new brand—Clarks Resorts. Tell us more about the flagship property. A: We’ve recently introduced Clarks Resorts, our premium brand, with the launch of Clarks Resort Ajmer. The property blends design innovation with immersive hospitality—most notably through its architecturally unique Globe Rooms. Starting from Clarks Safari Ranthambore in 2022, our portfolio has grown to over 1,500 keys across midscale and luxury segments. The Clarks Resorts brand will soon expand to Pushkar, Jaipur, and Aurangabad, strengthening our footprint in the upscale space.   4. Clarks Safari has focused on wildlife tourism so …

Clarks Safari Group as part of strategic move has diversified into opening properties in religious locations, spread across India. They have launched a new brand Clarks Resort and opened their first resort Clarks Resort Pushkar. The vastly spread property is targeting luxury travelers as the primary market. Also, keeping one eye to the mice and wedding sector, they have opened an exclusive conference and banquet hall, equipped with all the latest gadgets. In order to reach out to the larger audience, the resort aims to provide a number of facilities to the guests within the resort. For the nature lovers the property has dedicated bird watching machans. Also, guided tours are available for bird watching, where the guide will conduct nature walks while imparting knowledge about the local bird species, and the migratory birds. There are dedicated fruit orchards and the organic gardens, the guests can pluck the vegetable of their choice for dinner or lunch. Apart from regular rooms, the resort offers private pool villas to provide privacy to the guests. The villa rooms are built keeping the comfort of the families in mind and can be booked by large groups or individual family. There is a dedicated kids zone, and a number of sports activities are present on the resort to keep the kids engaged during the holiday. Also, there are professionals to engage with children when the family wants to have private time. The property has 154 rooms divided into different categories. In order to cater to the large gatherings the property boasts of a banquet hall that is spread across 10000 sqft. It is totally equipped for weddings, functions or conducting large conferences. Mr. Prakash Bedi, …

Clarks Safari proudly announces the opening of its flagship property, Clarks Safari Haridwar, strategically located in the heart of the city. This luxury property features 22 well-appointed rooms, designed to cater to spiritual travelers, corporates, and families seeking a comfortable stay at competitive rates. Spread over more than 9000 sqmt Clarks Safari Haridwar offers a range of amenities and facilities, ensuring a comprehensive and enjoyable stay for all guests. The property boasts four banquet halls with a combined seating capacity of 500 Pax, making it an ideal venue for conferences, product launches, and corporate events. For entertainment, the resort provides a bowling alley ( 2 Lanes), Arcade games Parlour (8 games ) Digital Archery , board games room, pool tables (2) , Air Hockey , T.T tables (2) , Play stations each having 2 seating and a ball pit for toddlers . Health enthusiasts can enjoy the gym, swim in the heated swimming pool, Zumba and yoga classes, squash court, long tennis court, and skating rink, Nett Cricket pitch , Box Cricket & 2 badminton courts In order to cater to the gamers and the tech savy travelers, the Arcade  game Parlour has all the latest collection of video games. The property offers a plethora of staying options, spread across categories, each room will be furnished with all the amenities, such as a safe box, seating area etc. They also have a state of the art equipped conference room, targeting corporate for organizing conferences, product launches, dealers meet, etc. Various experiential will be curated targeting different sets of audiences. Apart from solo travelers, and families, the brand is heavily eyeing the wedding segment for hosting small events, corporate, and MICE. …

Clarks Safari enters Ahmedabad by signing a 50 rooms property near Kheda Gujarat. The luxury property will cater to luxury travelers, corporates, and families looking for a day outing, along with clients seeking out destination weddings. The brand already has multiple properties spread across the country but Ahmedabad being the business hub and one of the busiest cities of Gujarat, propelled the brand to open doors here. The newly signed property is centrally located and enjoys good connectivity. It is spread over an area of more than 5 acres, and has all the facilities inside it. The property has a banquet hall with a seating capacity of 800 pax. There is a dedicated kids zone and play area, where one can enjoy rain dance. In order to spread awareness around nature and animal life, there is a birding zone, and a pond with various water animals. It is good for those who want to spend their whole day in a luxury setup while enjoying different activities at the resort. They also have a swimming pool and inhouse gym on the property.The property has a Gaushala, from where organic milk products are generated. There will be 50 rooms spread across categories, each room will be furnished with all the amenities, such as a safe box, indoor games, seating area, deck area, pantry, etc. They also have a main lawn to conduct weddings or other functions with 600 pax capacity. Various experiential will be curated targeting different sets of audiences. Apart from solo travelers, and families, the brand is heavily eyeing the wedding segment, corporate, and MICE. The in-house restaurant will serve multiple cuisines, chiefly North Indian, continental, and also Gujarati food. …

Mr. Prakash Bedi, Vice President of Clarks Safari The budget sounded optimistic and growth-oriented. The doubling of FDI to 596 billion US dollars, is an encouraging sign for the whole economy. The main push in this interim budget is boosting tourism at the state level. The announcement of interest-free loans to the state for maintaining iconic tourist centers will witness more footfalls. We always believed that India needs more tourist spots, and monuments, to be branded and marketed. This budget addressed this need. The government showed will towards further developing rail and air infrastructure. Opening of 517 new routes carrying 1.3 crore passengers boosted domestic travel, and seeing the surge in demand the Indian carriers have placed orders for 1000 new aircraft. The focus on tourism is back, also with the opening of Ram Mandir, spiritual tourism is back in focus. Recently members of the Karak Clan from South Korea visited the temple and paid tributes to Lord Rama. This is a positive signal, in the coming days we can witness more international tourists from South East Asia visiting India for spiritual purposes. The surge of the Indian middle class will further boost domestic tourism.

Mr. Prakash Bedi, Vice President, Clarks Safari  India is blessed with a varied landscape and architectural marvels, most travelers visit India to experience heritage or spiritual tourism apart from being a favorite destination for leisure and business travel. The hospitality sector is a billion-dollar industry and gives employment to 137 billion individuals. Last year’s budget was promising, with the announcement of opening up 220 airports by 2025, the allotment of 2.4 lakh crores to Indian railways capital expenditure, and increasing coastal shipping using India’s eastern and western shipping lines, boosting the tourism sector. With the 2024-2025 budget in the pipeline, there are a lot of expectations within the industry. The sector only has 1,90,000 branded rooms which is significantly lower than the other Asian counterparts. China has nine times more branded rooms than us. The industry needs more foreign investments and big chains setting up properties in India. Too much of licenses are acting as dampeners, it is essential to have one clearance window, to support ease of doing business and to encourage new players to enter the sector. This will lead to the expansion of the hotel industry and more inflow of international tourists. For long, the industry has been struggling to get industry status, rationalize taxes, and easier loan conditions for small and medium properties. We are hoping this budget will address a few of those issues. It is high time the indirect taxes especially the goods and services taxes need to be standardized as per global standards. All across the globe the GST charged is 12%, whereas in India we charge 18% GST, this leads to the driving of the room tariffs. This will make India globally …

The Indian hotel industry anticipates a robust fiscal year in 2024, with double-digit revenue growth, according to ICRA. The growth will be attributed to a combination of domestic and international factors, especially in the latter half of the fiscal year. Premium hotels in India are forecasted to achieve occupancy rates of around 70–72%, marking a significant recovery. Average room rates for these hotels are projected to be in the range of Rs. 6,000–6,200, maintaining a 20–25% discount relative to the FY2008 peak. Despite healthy occupancy, slight margin dips are anticipated in FY2024 due to extensive renovation and maintenance activities undertaken by hotels, surpassing pre-COVID levels. Mr. Prakash Bedi, Vice President of Clarks Safari shares key insights on 2024 hospitality trends., He believes the key metro cities will again lead to an increase in tourism due to MICE, business travellers, etc. The majority of the revenue in the tourism sector will flow from domestic travellers, but international travel will also pick up. At the same time, experiential travel and tier-2 cities will also witness a tourist surge due to infrastructural development. Technology will play a bigger role, and even boutique hotels will strengthen their IT infrastructure, to generate more footfalls. He further adds, “Tourists are becoming more aware of their preferences and choices, adventure tourism will witness a surge. The existing national parks infrastructure will be improved and a few new parks might open up. Wildlife tourism will attract more domestic and international tourists. With the opening of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, spiritual tourism will see a boost.  Also, sustainability will no longer remain a PR activity. The way climate concerns are being raised, and sustainable efforts are taken by the …