Working with international hotel operators to acquire a strategic portfolio of hotel sites

• Prior to acquiring each site, commitment will be sought from the appropriate operator
• Geographically diversified investment across the whole of India
• Management team combines international and local Indian expertise
• The investment is suitable for high-net-worth individuals only
• Priority return for investors with management fees performance related target returns for the investment are 20-40% pa over 5 years.

India is the second fastest growing major economy in the world. GDP has risen by 8-9% over the past few years and, according to Lehman Brothers, could sustainably grow even faster at 10% pa over the next decade. Goldman Sachs believe India’s growth acceleration since 2003 represents a structural increase rather than simply a cyclical upturn.

There have been two key factors in the transformation of India’s economy. The first is the IT boom which had its foundations laid in the 1980s. The second, and most important, is the on-going and wide-ranging economic reforms which started in 1991. These have both served to open up India’s previously closed economy; in turn boosting exports, encouraging investment and developing a world-class technology-enabled services industry.

In development terms, according to Lehman Brothers, India has now reached “take-off”. Such is the change that Goldman Sachs see India having a bigger economy than Britain within ten years and America within forty. As soon as 2035, India will have a larger economy than the whole of Western Europe.

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