
A joint venture between Interstate Hotels & Resorts and JHM Hotels has signed a contract to manage a Ramada Inn in Alleppey, India.
Interstate Hotels & Resorts, the United States' largest independent hotel management company, announced that JHM Interstate Hotels India, a 50/50 joint venture management company between Interstate and JHM Hotels, has signed a contract to manage the Ramada Hotel in Alleppey, Kerala, India. The 120-room, under-construction hotel, which is owned by Mr. Reji Cheriyan, is anticipated to open in 2012.When open, the Ramada Hotel in Alleppey will be the first internationally branded hotel in the market."This brings to six the number of hotels opened or signed in India, a country which continues to play a key role in our global strategy," said Thomas F. Hewitt, Interstate's chairman and chief executive officer.