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NEWS RELEASE
TUNE HOTEL AHMEDABAD IS NOW OPEN
Green concept resonates amongst guests in India
AHMEDABAD, 15 May 2013 – Tune Hotels' maiden Indian property located in Ahmedabad today opens its doors, with guests welcoming new standards of hospitality from the award-winning international hotel chain.
The 100-room Tune Hotel Ahmedabad received its first guests, many of whom took advantage of its pre-opening promotional room rates that started from 599 Indian rupees ($11).
“The Tune Hotel Ahmedabad is our first opportunity to present our services to India’s vibrant and vast hospitality market. Our excellent amenities combine with top-class environment-friendly practices and we are encouraged with the response from our guests. It is heartening to note that guests have liked our eco-friendly character,” said Mark Lankester, Group CEO of Tune Hotels.
With the opening of Tune Hotel Ahmedabad, there are now 29 Tune Hotels in operation globally. The rest are 11 in Malaysia, five in the UK, four in the Philippines, four in Thailand and four in Indonesia.
The Tune Hotel Ahmedabad, annexed to the newly-developed 4D Square Mall in the city’s Motera area, is well-positioned on the main thoroughfare to the state capital of Gandhinagar and a stone’s throw away from Ahmedabad’s Sardar Patel cricket stadium.
“We welcome both business and leisure travellers. In order to serve families, an important segment in India, we have specially-designed large rooms that can accommodate four to six people. All our guest rooms come with our standard features designed to ensure a comfortable stay at affordable prices. At Tune Hotels, we keep the prices competitive by giving guests the option to choose and pay only for amenities that they require,” Lankester said.
The Tune Hotel Ahmedabad is looking to serve both domestic travellers and visitors from abroad, especially members of the large non-resident Indian (NRI) community from Gujarat settled in places like the US, Britain and the Gulf.
Tune Hotels will have five to six hotels in Gujarat as part of the company’s 20 planned hotels across India in the next three years.
“We are keen to reinforce our environmental-friendly practices while we build our business in India. We want our guests to be part of these eco practices and be aware of our systems and technologies that are compatible with our green standards. Our business philosophy is to strive to remain locally-relevant in each and every community we are in. This includes being responsible towards the local environment,” Lankester said.
“For us at Tune Hotels, being environment-friendly is not a slogan. Using resources in a way that reduces waste and promotes healthy lifestyles is built in our daily operations whether it is saving energy or minimising waste.”
Providing international-standard, high quality accommodation by focusing on key essentials but minus the generally underutilised facilities commonly found in other hotels such as swimming pools, business centres and gymnasiums, Tune Hotels keeps its operating costs low and savings are passed on to guests in the form of super low rates.
Apart from properties in major cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai – Tune Hotels is focusing on Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities along with hotels in the tourist triangle destinations of Agra, Jaipur and Delhi.
By the end of 2013, Tune Hotels will have operating hotels in eight countries. Apart from India, Tune Hotels is set to open properties in Japan and Australia this year. Future projects are also coming up in the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
Tune Hotels has received over four million guests since the opening of its first hotel in Downtown Kuala Lumpur in 2007.
Tune Hotels is part of Tune Group, a lifestyle business conglomerate co-founded by Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Dato’ Kamarudin Meranun, who are the Group Chief Executive Officer and Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer respectively of Asia’s largest low cost carrier AirAsia.
For real-time updates and promotion alerts, guests can stay connected with Tune Hotels via Facebook at www.facebook.com/tunehotelsIndia and on Twitter via www.twitter.com/tunehotels.
For booking and further information, visit www.tunehotels.com.
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About Tune Hotels
Tune Hotels is part of the lifestyle business conglomerate Tune Group that was founded by Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Dato’ Kamarudin Meranun. Tune Hotels seeks to innovate and revolutionise the way services are made available and has employed efficient web-based technologies to reach and engage its customers, presenting a unique lifestyle opportunity.
All Tune Hotels’ properties feature space-efficient, streamlined rooms focusing on high-quality basics: a five-star bed, powerful hot showers and energy-conserving ceiling fans along with housekeeping services, electronic keycard access into rooms, CCTV surveillance, and 24-hour security.
The Tune Group of companies are Tune Air (a substantial shareholder of AirAsia), Tune Hotels, Tune Money (holding company of Tune Insurance), Tune Talk, Tune Box, Tune Studios, Tune Tones, Caterham F1 Team, Queens Park Rangers Football Club (QPR) and Educ8 Group (owner of Epsom College in Malaysia).
Photos are available from www.flickr.com/tunehotels.
For media enquiries please contact:
INDIA
Shakir Husain
Mobile: +91 9971054815
Email: shakir.husain@tunehotels.com
MALAYSIA / INTERNATIONAL
Cymantha Sothiar
Mobile: +6012 315 3638
Fax: +603 7955 5899
Email: cymantha@tunehotels.com
Does it look like a mess?
Well, look carefully :)
It's all arranged meticulously and compartmentalized neatly.
All this for just one day of trading.
The Sunday Market (locally known as Ravivaari Bazaar) is a age old trading spot below the very old Ellis Bridge in the city of Ahmedabad.
The traders come down to this spot every sunday and spread their items on the floor or make shift tents from dawn to dusk.
Old Ahmedabad (Kalupur).
With both a booming economy and population, much of Ahmedabad is filled with new buildings and businesses. But like most Indian cities, Ahmedabad’s true colors shine through in the old city center, a bustling maze of streets, food carts, and shoppers.
Ahmedabad, India, March 17, 2015: Solar Impusle 2 takes-off for its 3rd flight from Ahmedabad to Varanasi (India) with André Borschberg at the controls. The First Round-the-World Solar Flight will take 500 flight hours and cover 35’000 km, over five months. Swiss founders and pilots, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg hope to demonstrate how pioneering spirit, innovation and clean technologies can change the world. The duo will take turns flying Solar Impulse 2, changing at each stop and will fly over the Arabian Sea, to India, to Myanmar, to China, across the Pacific Ocean, to the United States, over the Atlantic Ocean to Southern Europe or Northern Africa before finishing the journey by returning to the initial departure point. Landings will be made every few days to switch pilots and organize public events for governments, schools and universities.
The mosque Jama Masjid (meaning Friday Mosque ) is the oldest and most splendid mosque of Ahmedabad, built in 1424 during the reign of Ahmed Shah. Lying in the old party of city, the mosque is situated opposite to Mahatma Gandhi Road, on the eastern side of Teen Darwaza.
The Jama Masjid of Ahmedabad was probably the largest mosque in the Indian subcontinent built in this period. Designed as part of a major plan desired by the Emperor Sultan Ahmed Shah, the mosque is located south of the processional axis that runs from the Maidan-i Shah at the door with three arches, Teen Darwaza.
To the west of the mosque are the tombs of Ahmed Shah , his son and his grand-son, ( Ahmad Shah Rauza ). Nearby are the graves of the queen and the other wives of the Sultan ( Rani ka Hazira ).
Built with yellow sandstone, the mosque complex is centered on a large rectangular courtyard 75 m long and 66 m wide. One enters the court by three entrances, one at the center of each side. The courtyard is lined with a colonnade on three sides, the prayer hall occupies the fourth side (East). In the center of the courtyard is a rectangular basin for ablutions.
Pillars in Periphery of Jama Masjid.
The prayer room is also rectangular and covered with four domes. In its Indo-Saracenic architecture, the mosque also contains many syncretic elements not necessarily obvious to the viewer: some of the central domes are carved like lotus flowers, closely related to the typical domes of Jain temples; and some of the pillars are carved with the form of a bell hanging on a chain, in reference to the bells that often hang in Hindu temples. The wide open courtyard, floored with white marble, is ringed by a columned arcade painted with giant Arabic calligraphy, and has a tank for ritual ablutions in the center. The mosque and arcades are built of beautiful yellow sandstone and carved with the intricate detail that mosques of this period are known for. While the two principal minarets flanking the main arched entranceway collapsed in the 1819 earthquake, their lower portions still stand. The main prayer hall has over 260 columns supporting the roof, with its 15 domes, making a walk through the hall a beautiful maze of light and shadows. The Wall of Prayer, the qibla is decorated. Pierced stone screens (the ' Jalis ') are placed between the two pillars of the central openings. The main entrance is framed by two columns, the remains of two minarets (called 'shaking minarets') which were destroyed by the earthquakes of 1819 and 1957.
The inscription on the mihrab commemorates the inauguration of the mosque on January 4th 1424 by Sultan Ahmad Shah I. The mosque was originally intended only for private use of the sultans.
The Adalaj stepwell or 'Vav', as it is called in Gujarati, is intricately carved and is five stories deep. It was built in 1498. It provided water for drinking, washing, and bathing. These wells were also venues for colorful festivals and sacred rituals. Adalaj stepwell is a popular tourist attraction of the Gandhinagar city and is situated 18 km north of Ahmedabad city. (Wikipedia)
Ahmedabad, Gujarat［India］
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The Hutheesingh Jain Temple in Ahmedabad (Gujarat).
Detail.
The Hutheesingh Jain Temple - built outside the Delhi Gate in 1850 by a rich Jain merchant. The Hutheesing temple is the best known of Ahmedabad's many ornate Jain temples.
Jainism is one of the oldest religions that originated in India. Jains believe that every soul is divine and has the potential to achieve God-consciousness. Any soul which has conquered its own inner enemies and achieved the state of supreme being is called jina (Conqueror or Victor). Jainism is the path to achieve this state.
Ahmedabad is the largest city in Gujarat and the sixth largest city in India with a population of almost 5 million. The city is also sometimes called Karnavati, an older name and as Amdavad in colloquial Gujarati . Ahmedabad is the administrative center of Ahmedabad District , and was the former capital of Gujarat State from 1960 to 1970 , when Gandhinagar replaced it. The city was founded in the 15th century by Sultan Ahmed Shah on the Sabarmati river , and served as capital of the Sultanate of Gujarat. The historic center of Ahmedabad is presently a thriving business district.