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Article: Bangkok has more hotel rooms than Delhi, Mumbai put together.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
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- April 6, 2008
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Bangkok has more hotel rooms than Delhi, Mumbai put together
New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI) -- Bangkok has more hotel rooms than both New Delhi and Mumbai put together, a critical shortage that has made tourist accommodation expensive and is driving away international conferences to South East Asian destinations.
While Thailand's capital Bangkok, a major tourist destination, has 60,000 hotel rooms, the hotel rooms in New Delhi and Mumbai are 20,000 and 25,000 respectively, pointed out a recent report on the services sector prepared by the Planning Commission.
The shortage of hotel rooms has pushed the tariffs to "to unprecedented levels", thus making it ...