Mumbai, June 24, 2022: Chalet Hotels Limited, owner, developer, and asset manager of high-end hotels in key metro cities of India, has made it to the Great Place to Work® Institute’s prestigious list of India’s 50 Great Mid-Sized Workplaces 2022, across industries, for the third time consecutively. It is the only hospitality company from the sector making it in the top 10. Despite unprecedented challenges for the industry, the company moved up from 16th place in 2020 and 6th place in 2021 to 4th place in 2022.

People are Chalet Hotels’ top priority, and with policies rated amongst the best in the world, employee happiness and well-being are essential for business success. In addition to its commitment to its people, the company cultivates an enabling culture at work.

Chalet Hotels has incorporated some forward-looking and people-friendly employee policies. For young professionals, Chalet Hotels Limited’s LEAP (Leadership Execution Accelerated Program) is a one-year intensive leadership program designed to upgrade professional skills and ensure successful day-to-day performance. In addition to this, the company hosts a Rendezvous with the CEO, which serves as a direct channel for employees to present ideas and concerns or just have a conversation in a small group. Employees can relaunch their careers after taking a work break due to maternity leave, health issues, or caring for a family member through an initiative called Relaunch Your Career. Furthermore, the company ensures a non-discriminatory atmosphere at the workplace through a policy called The Pride Side, which ensures transparency from employment to appraisals of employees. The company also has a policy called Anchal for expecting mothers, which supports them during pregnancy, under which extensive facilities are provided such as cab services, reduced working hours, ‘My Saheli’ – an initiative that helps them to stay connected with office while they are away from office, tie ups with day care centres, and other services while at work.

Sharing his thoughts about this prestigious recognition, Sanjay Sethi, MD & CEO, Chalet Hotels Limited, said, “Hospitality Industry thrives on their employees as they are the face of an organization. Our goal is to foster an environment in which employees excel and set high-performance standards, so it is a great honour to be recognized with this award. We strive to create a ‘place of choice and pride’, a workplace benchmarked to global standards. It is a testament to the hard work, resilience, agility, and team spirit of our colleagues that is being recognized by GPTW.”

Great Place to Work® Institute congratulated Chalet Hotels Limited saying, “It is with great pleasure that we congratulate Chalet Hotels Limited on being selected as one of India’s Great Midsize Workplaces 2021. This shows their commitment to setting high standards of trust and performance within the organization.”

Great Place to Work® Institute’s methodology is widely recognized as the gold standard in business, academia, and government organizations for defining great workplaces due to its rigorous and objective methodology. For selecting India’s Great Mid-size Workplaces – 2022, more than 10,000 organizations from over 60 countries we assessed. An awards ceremony was held on the evening of 23rd June to celebrate the achievement and honour all the recipients.

Some of the other recognitions that Chalet Hotels Limited has been awarded by the Great Place to Work® Institute include India’s Best Workplaces for Women 2021 for 2 years in a row, Best Small &

Medium Workplaces in Asia 2021, India’s Great Mid-size Workplaces 2021 for 2 years in a row, and Great Place to Work-Certified™ from April 2021 – March 2022 for 2 years in a row.

About Chalet Hotels Limited:

Chalet Hotels Limited (CHL), is an owner, developer, and asset manager of high-end hotels in key metro cities in India. CHL comprises seven operating hotels, including a hotel with a co-located serviced residence, which is situated across the markets of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Pune. The hotels are branded with globally recognized hospitality brands and are in the luxury-upper upscale and upscale hotel segments. The hotel platform emphasizes strategic locations, efficient design and development, appropriate positioning and, branding and operational tie-ups with leading hospitality companies. CHL uses its experience to actively manage the hotel assets to drive performance. In addition, CHL has developed commercial co-located with hotels under a mixed-use plan. These are at strategic locations, generally with high barriers to entry, and in high-density business districts. For more information about the company, please visit www.chalethotels.com.

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