{"id":121835,"date":"2018-01-06T11:11:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T05:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=121835"},"modified":"2018-01-06T11:11:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T05:41:15","slug":"india-needs-2-lakh-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/india-needs-2-lakh-rooms\/","title":{"rendered":"India needs 2 lakh rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India needs about 2,00,000 new hotel rooms, Tourism Minister KJ Alphons told parliament this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe have reached a plateau point and need more resources to create new infrastructure and develop tourist packages,\u201d Alphons later told Reuters, adding there was huge potential in developing areas that were not the usual tourist destinations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121836\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/tmg-facebook_social.jpg\" alt=\"India needs 2 lakh rooms\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/tmg-facebook_social.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/tmg-facebook_social-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said developing tourism, particularly in India\u2019s remote north-eastern states, is one of his top priorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hotel occupancy levels in India are at their highest levels since 2008, even though many hotel chains have raised prices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The need for rooms has been spotted by foreign investors with Japan\u2019s SoftBank Group backing start-ups like OYO Rooms, which has emerged as the largest aggregator of budget accommodation across the country with hotels in over 200 destinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India needs about 2,00,000 new hotel rooms, Tourism Minister KJ Alphons told parliament this week. \u201cWe have reached a plateau point and need more resources to create new infrastructure and develop tourist packages,\u201d Alphons later told Reuters, adding there was huge potential in developing areas that were not the usual tourist destinations. Prime Minister Narendra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[62488,510,62487,62490,40,318,62489],"class_list":["post-121835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-hotel-rooms","tag-india","tag-india-needs-2-lakh-rooms","tag-kj-alphons","tag-parliament","tag-prime-minister-narendra-modi","tag-tourism-minister"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/alphons-7591.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}