TTDC names SRM property as Hotel Tamil Nadu unit-II

With the State government taking over SRM Hotel in Tiruchi, it has become one of the most luxurious and highly valued hotels of the Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC).

The prime property, situated on Race Course Road, was brought under the administrative control of the TTDC, which runs 54 hotels in different parts of the State, including Mahabalipuram, Chennai, Ooty, Kodaikanal, Tiruchi, Madurai, and Rameswaram. The TTDC’s comes as the 30-year-lease period of SRM Hotels Pvt Ltd and six weeks time granted by the Supreme Court to the SRM management to pay ₹20 crore to the State government expired.

According to sources, the then AIADMK government granted 4.7 acres of land to SRM management on lease to build a high class hotel mainly with the aim of providing good accommodation to the foreign delegates attending World Tamil Conference held in Thanjavur in 1995.

The hotel has 100 rooms, 17 villas, a presidential suite, three restaurants, a swimming pool, three banquet halls, a board room and a bar. The tariff for the rooms varies from ₹6,000 to ₹17,000. Shortly after taking control of the hotel, the TTDC renamed it as Hotel Tamil Nadu Unit II. It has put up boards and fixed TTDC stickers on the glass doors. It has replaced the systems with HMIS software, which is widely used in the hotels run by TTDC.

According to sources, no other hotel of the TTDC charges such high tariffs. The Hotel Tamil Nadu at Mahabalipuram comes next in the list. The maximum rent for a sea-facing room hovers around ₹9,000. No other TTDC hotels have a swimming pool except its new entrant.

R. Venkatesan, Assistant Commercial Manager, TTDC hotels, told The Hindu that the hotel would be marketed under the name of Hotel Tamil Nadu-unit II. However, there would be no change in tariff. All services offered by the previous management would be offered.