Lemon Tree Hotels

Lemon Tree Hotels is an Indian hotel chain. It owns and operates 100 hotels with a total of 9700 rooms in 64 cities across India.^[2]

Lemon Tree Hotels Ltd.

A Lemon Tree property in Hyderabad
Company type	Public
Traded as	NSE: LEMONTREE BSE: 541233
Industry	Hospitality
Founded	2002
Founder	Patu Keswani
Headquarters	6, Aerocity Hospitality District, New Delhi, 110037, India
Number of locations	100 hotels (2024)[1]
Area served	India, UAE, Bhutan
Website	Lemon Tree Hotels

According to the Horwath Report, Lemon Tree Hotels is India's largest hotel chain in the mid-priced hotel sector as of 30 June 2017. ^[3]

History

Lemon Tree Hotels was founded in 2002 by Patu Keswani.^[4] It opened its first hotel with 49 rooms in May 2004.^[5]

In 2019, the company acquired Berggruen Hotels Private Limited for an enterprise value of ₹ 605 crores. At the time of acquisition, Berggruen Hotels owned 936 rooms and managed 975 rooms under the "Keys" brand in 21 cities across India.^[6]

Lemon Tree Hotels went public and was listed on the National Stock Exchange of India on 9 April 2018.^[7]

Operations

A Lemon Tree hotel in Aurangabad

The company operates under 7 brands, namely Aurika Hotels and Resorts, Lemon Tree Premier, Lemon Tree Hotels, Red Fox by Lemon Tree Hotels, Keys Prima, Keys Select, and Keys Lite.^[8]

Corporate social responsibility

Currently, about 20% of group employees are from deprived and disabled segments of the population.^[9][10]

All Lemon Tree Hotels adopt a stray dog from that area and make it a mascot. Stray dogs are groomed and given specific duties in the hotels.^[11] It is the largest corporate adopter of stray dogs in India.^[12]