Dusit Thani Hotel, a 220-280 room five-star business hotel, is expected to come up by 2010 in New Delhi. The hotel will be built in an area of 7.5 acres of land on NH-8 and will be followed by three luxury spa resorts in picturesque locations in Rishikesh, Jaipur, and Goa. Other destinations on the cards are Pune, Amritsar and Hyderabad. Last year, Dusit International entered into a joint venture agreement with Bird Hospitality Services (BHS) — a wholly owned subsidiary of Bird Group — to bring the Dusit brand to India. Dusit International is a Thailand-based hotel services player with more than 50 years' of experience in the hotel and hospitality field. The total investment in the hotels from BHS is over US $ 200 million.
