India Tourism Development Corporation
The India Tourism Development Corporation is a hospitality, retail and education company owned by the Government of India, under the administration of the Ministry of Tourism. Established in 1966, it currently owns over 4 properties under the Ashok Group of Hotels brand, across India.
One of the hotels the government developed was the Akbar Hotel in Chanakyapuri, which was built from 1965 to 1969. It remained a hotel until the mid-1980's when it was converted into office space. There were plans in 2007 to convert it back into a hotel in time for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
List of properties
Properties that are operated by the ITDC in 2022 were:- Ashok Hotel
- Hotel Samrat
- Kalinga Ashok
- Pondicherry Ashok
- Hotel Patliputra Ashok, Patna, Bihar
- The Ashok, New Delhi, Delhi
- Samrat Hotel, New Delhi, Delhi
- Janpath Hotel, New Delhi, Delhi
- Hotel Jammu Ashok, Jammu, J&K
- Lalitha Mahal Palace Hotel, Mysore, Karnataka
- Hotel Kalinga Ashok, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
- Hotel Jaipur Ashok, Jaipur, Rajasthan
- Hotel Bharatpur Ashok, Bharatpur, Rajasthan
- Hotel Lake View Ashok, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
- Hotel Brahmaputra Ashok, Guwahati, Assam
- Hotel Ranchi Ashok, Ranchi, Jharkhand
- Hotel Pondicherry Ashok, Pondicherry, Pondicherry
- Hotel Donyi Polo Ashok, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
- Hotel Nilachal Ashok, Puri, Odisha