Clarks Group of Hotels - Five Star Hotel of India

Online, September 16, 2010 (Newswire.com) - The Clarks Group of Hotels (U.P.Hotels) which is a well established name in Hospitality Industry in India, which was started by late Shri Brijpal Das Ji way back in 1949, having more than 100 years of experience of trading Jewellery, Textile and International Trading.

To expand its business of Hotels a new company was incorporated in February 1961 in the name of U.P.Hotels Limited. The first five star hotel of India was registered by U.P.Hotels Limited in 1962--Hotel Clarks Shiraz of 237 rooms, near the Taj Mahal in Agra. Thereafter 2 five star hotels were opened in Jaipur of 216 rooms and in Lucknow of 100 rooms in the year 1973.

Hotel Clarks Khajuraho of 105 rooms came up in 1998 at Khajuraho. As on date the company owns and manages 5 five star hotels in Agra, Lucknow, Jaipur and Khajuraho & Varanasi under the brand "Clarks" which is also owned by U.P.Hotels Limited. (www.hotelclarks.com)

Company also promoted a new company in the name of Great Value Hotels Ltd. on the concept of taking hotels on license basis and running it with its own team of experts and experienced people. Besides this the company also started two companies in the name and style of CLARKS BRIJ HOTEL INDIA (P) LIMITED & CLARKS INN which takes hotels on management contract basis and has already hotels in Sahibabad, Gorakhpur, Goa, Bangalore, Delhi NCR, New Delhi, and Alwar in its fold (www.clarksinn.in), while 12 others are currently in the pipeline. The Clarks Group of Hotels has also launched a home-stay programme, 'Jaipur Pride Project' in Jaipur and Delhi with an objective of helping inclusive growth by distributing the wealth of tourism to larger scheme of society (www.pridehomestay.com). It is the first branded, standardized home stay.

Recently, a chain of creative fine dining restaurants have also been added to our Clarks Collection by the brand name of 1589 (www.1589hotels.com).