Mumbai: Hotel Leelaventure Ltd has agreed to sell a hotel in Goa to a Malaysian company for Rs 725 crore ($111 million) as the luxury hotels operator strives to cut its debt.
Leelaventure will sell the 206-room hotel to a unit of MetTube Sdn Bhd but will continue to manage it under a contract, it said in a statement late on Saturday.
Leelaventure expects the deal, which it said was the biggest single asset acquisition in India's hospitality sector, to close by end-December.
The Goa hotel accounted for 15 per cent of its total income for the last financial year to March 31.
($1 = Rs 65.8582)
Mumbai: Hotel Leelaventure Ltd has agreed to sell a hotel in Goa to a Malaysian company for Rs 725 crore ($111 million) as the luxury hotels operator strives to cut its debt.
Leelaventure will sell the 206-room hotel to a unit of MetTube Sdn Bhd but will continue to manage it under a contract, it said in a statement late on Saturday.
Leelaventure expects the deal, which it said was the biggest single asset acquisition in India's hospitality sector, to close by end-December.
The Goa hotel accounted for 15 per cent of its total income for the last financial year to March 31.
($1 = Rs 65.8582)
Mumbai: Hotel Leelaventure Ltd has agreed to sell a hotel in Goa to a Malaysian company for Rs 725 crore ($111 million) as the luxury hotels operator strives to cut its debt.
Leelaventure will sell the 206-room hotel to a unit of MetTube Sdn Bhd but will continue to manage it under a contract, it said in a statement late on Saturday.
Leelaventure expects the deal, which it said was the biggest single asset acquisition in India's hospitality sector, to close by end-December.
The Goa hotel accounted for 15 per cent of its total income for the last financial year to March 31.
($1 = Rs 65.8582)
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