India: IT companies cut down hotel bills, develop inhouse facilities: Travel, IT Companies, Hotels, Indian IT, Realty Blues, IMRS, Taj Hotels, Rural Tourism, India

Domestic IT players like Infosys and Wipro have built inhouse room capacities to provide affordable and classy accommodation to the trainees and clients respectively. This translates to huge cost savings. The hotels have seen a fall in occupancies and discounts to domestic tourists are on offer.

- Chillibreeze Business Research Team

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