Kamath Group plans 5-star hotel in Nagpur

The Kamat Group of Hotels is planning to set up a hospitality management institute in the next three to four months, a hotel management and tourism
training institute over the next two months, and an Enviroscope museum
that will feature products made out of waste. This is, of course, besides
plans to construct a budget hotel and a five-star hotel (under the Orchid
brand name) over the next 16 months.

Vithal Kamat, chairman and managing director of Kamat group of hotels, said the group is planning an investment of Rs 30 crore in the city. The five-star property will come up near the airport, he added.

Both the budget hotel and the five-star property will operate, like other
Kamat Hotels, on the unique "zero-garbage" concept. "This is a process
with the objective of reduce-reuse-recycle so that nothing goes waste,"
Kamat said.

Some waste that cannot be further decomposed will be transformed through vermiculture into compost. This fertiliser will then be used instead of pesticides for the cultivation of fruits and vegetables, which will be utilised in the hotels. "This is the whole concept behind organic farming," Kamat said.

The Orchid in Mumbai was the first hotel in Asia to bag the coveted Ecotel certification in 1997 for conserving natural resources.

Kamat will also be launching TEAM or Tree Environment And Me in Nagpur with the objective of encouraging people to plant saplings and look after trees. "We have a target of one lakh trees over the next two years," he said.