Puneet Chhatwal, MD & CEO, IHCL, says India’s branded hotel supply is still behind global peers despite doubling to 2,00,000 rooms over the past decade. “Ten years ago, India had just 1,00,000 branded hotel rooms… That is the size of the opportunity,” he noted. Under IHCL’s Accelerate 2030 vision, the next growth phase aims to reach 3,00,000 rooms in half the time, highlighting a massive runway for expansion and rising domestic demand.