Deepak Sarin Hotelier

Deepak Sarin is a highly qualified hotel professional with a long-standing experience in the hospitality industry that spans more than fifty-one years.

He has the exceptional credit of having been employed by the finest trailblazing hotel chains in India - Oberoi, Taj and ITC Hotels. He has held some key responsibility portfolios including positions of CEO, President, Director, Vice President-Operations, Projects & Development.

His in-depth understanding of market practices within the Industry has endowed him with his current status, of being a well regarded Hospitality Advisor and Consultant. His well-honed experience enables him to conduct evaluations, appraisals, planning and execution for hospitality ventures from the early stages of inception up till commissioning for Operations. He pairs hotel brands with Operators for Technical & Management services and Operations.

Deepak's industry experience is worldwide. He has worked in London, Morocco and Kathmandu for the Taj International Hotels to set up hospitality ventures, together with evaluating and implementing hotel developments in Sanaa, Dubai, Tashkent, Samarkand.

He has handled several other interesting international assignments.

In Zambia he operated an exclusive complex for the Commonwealth Heads of State and developed national game lodges for the State.

In Bangkok, as Head of a hospitality company, he set up a major hotel project under the Amari brand, and a luxury Serviced Apartment, with a Singapore-based brand.

Having lived in Japan for five years, Deepak speaks Japanese, and to him goes the credit of setting up the very first Japanese restaurant in India at the Oberoi Hotel Mumbai in 1974.

In Delhi, he was instrumental in setting up the iconic Hotel Taj Mansingh in 1976-79, while additionally planning several hotels for the Taj group's development growth strategy.

In Kolkata, he was instrumental in the start-up activities of the ITC Sonar Bangla project.