Bangalore appears to be on the priority list of the major hotel chains in India.

Taking advantage of the huge demand for room-starved hospitality industry in the IT City is the American Carlson Hotels Worldwide. The MNC hotel group will build two hotels in Bangalore and is looking at Mysore to construct one.

“We have set out to construct hotels in Whitefield and in the new IT district. We are looking at Radisson, Park Plaza and Country Inn for Bangalore. Two of these hotels should open by 2008,” Carlson Hospitality Asia Pacific Executive Vice President (South Asia) K B Kachru told Deccan Herald here on Monday.

The Radisson in Bangalore will have 200 rooms with an investment of Rs 100 crore. The second hotel will be built in association with Park Plaza Hotels and Resorts. The hotel, with about 100 rooms, is scheduled to open in 2009.

As for the Mysore property, Carlson is planning to set it up by 2009. It will have about 200 rooms with investment of Rs 50 crore.

According to Kachru, pressure on hotels rooms in Bangalore will ease by 2009. Kachru said the Carlson Group will add more than 1600 rooms, at an estimated cost of Rs 1400 crores around the country across all categories by 2010.

Over the past year, the group has signed up more than twenty 3-to-5 star properties and expects the number to touch forty by 2010. Delhi and its neighbouring areas alone will have nine hotels of this group by 2011. “We will have four Radisson, three Country Inn and two Park products,” he said.