Taj Hotels parent Indian Hotels Company Ltd (IHCL) and Adani Airports have signed an agreement to develop eight hotels with about 2,000 rooms across Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Guwahati, expanding the role of airports as commercial and hospitality hubs.
The partnership will cover three Taj hotels, two Vivanta hotels, one Gateway hotel and two Ginger hotels. Adani Airports will develop the properties, while IHCL will operate them across its luxury, upscale and mid-scale brands.
In Mumbai, the portfolio will include a Taj hotel at Terminal 2 of Mumbai airport. Lucknow is planned to receive a Vivanta and a Ginger hotel. Ahmedabad will have a Taj and a Vivanta hotel, both described as being in advanced stages of development. Guwahati will receive a Taj, Gateway and Ginger hotel.
The agreement is part of Adani Airport Holdings Ltd’s plan to build integrated airport ecosystems combining aviation with hospitality, retail, commercial and lifestyle infrastructure. With the latest pact, the airport operator said it has partnered with hotel brands for 15 hotels across its key airports in India.
Jeet Adani, director of Adani Airport Holdings, said airports globally were evolving into integrated destinations that could act as catalysts for commerce, tourism and urban growth. He described the partnership with IHCL as a step towards strengthening the hospitality ecosystem within the company’s Airport City developments.
IHCL managing director and chief executive Puneet Chhatwal said airport-centric developments were emerging as commercial and hospitality hubs as India’s aviation market expanded. He said the agreement would strengthen IHCL’s multi-brand presence at key airports and support travel and tourism activity.
The project is linked to Adani Airport City Ltd, which has been formed to develop a land bank of more than 655 acres across eight airports in seven states. Nearly 440 acres of that land is in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. In its first phase, the company plans to invest more than Rs 20,000 crore to develop about 2.2 crore square feet across Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Jaipur and Guwahati.
The scale of the planned development places the hotel agreement within a wider airport-led urban development model rather than a standalone hospitality expansion. Such projects combine transport infrastructure with offices, retail, hotels and other commercial uses, concentrating activity around major aviation gateways.
Adani Airports operates eight airports: Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Mangaluru, Jaipur, Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram and Navi Mumbai International Airport. IHCL said the additions would take its total presence to 25 hotels across its brands at key airports in India. The companies did not disclose individual project costs or opening timelines for the eight hotels in the announcement.
