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Bikramjit Ray

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Bikramjit Ray is Executive Editor of BW Hotelier.

Latest Articles By Bikramjit Ray

Park Hotel introduces the Park Picnic, Right in Your Own Room

A room service concept which adds a little playfulness to regular meals, the Park Picnic also plays on nostalgia and the craving for home cooked food for the long staying hotel guests.

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Leela Ambience Changes It's Kitchen Team and the Future Looks Delicious

Neeraj Rawoot is the new de facto Executive Chef, while Anurag Bhartwal takes over as the Executive Pastry Chef. BW Hotelier speaks to both about their plans and how they want to keep the restaurants and banqueting buzzing, like it has been for the past few years.

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First Ever Convention for Young Culinary Talent to Take Place in New Delhi

The Young Chefs Association of India (YCAI), part of the Indian Federation of Culinary Associations (IFCA) organises two-day event with global names open to all its members as well as those from the ages of 18 to 27, who are in the culinary line, from students to chefs and instructors.

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Eastern Promise

The VP Sales and Marketing of Mayfair Hotels, Bjorn Noel Deniese tells us about the group's very unique take on hospitality from their fortress in the east.

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Appetite for Growth

Vikramjit Singh, President of Lemon Tree Hotels on how it all started for him and the push to get bigger.

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An Indian Outpost Abroad

Jagan Lacsher speaks to us about running a hotel, which has a specific India-centric focus when it comes to its wedding and MICE business.

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The Good Times Will Still Take Sometime to Arrive

The CEO Session at HAI's South Asian Hoteliers' Conclave 2016 discussed how the industry was doing and felt that it would take at least a couple more years to be able to feel the push from the high GDP and really begin the upswing in the industry. GST was also a major talking point since the sector is so highly taxed at present.

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Controlling Waste Could Make a Significant Saving to Business Costs: Chef Y B Mathur

Chef Mathur publishes book titled Culinary Economics in which he speaks extensively on the various ways a food business can become more streamlined and profitable. Mathur has devised 11 control points in the business where costs can be reduced.

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Putting the Marriott Stamp on it!

General Manager Subhash Sinha on taking over the Oakwood Premier in Koregaon Park Pune and making it into the Marriott Suites, Pune. The challenges of getting everyone on the same page as far as operations go and what lies ahead.

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We Want to Give Buyers Richest Benefits in Industry: Irene Lin

Starwood Hotels' Vice President, Distribution, Loyalty and Partnerships speaks on how the company tackles the Indian market and tells us of the future of the Starwood loyalty program post the Marriott-Starwood merger.

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