US-based real estate management, investment and development consortium, JNB Investments LLC, has forayed into the Indian hospitality market, with plans to set up 50 hotels in the country by 2015. The company will invest about Rs 2000 Crore in the development, which will be collected through internal accruals and other sources of funding.

JNB will develop properties in the five, four and three star segments. The first few properties will come up in Kochi, Bengaluru and New Delhi. The venture capitalist company is a strategic partner in the joint venture between Interstate Hotels & Resorts and JHM Hotels, for development in the Indian market. The joint venture called JHM Interstate Hotels India, will manage the group’s Indian development initiatives.

Talkint exclusively to Hospitality Biz, T J Barring, President, JNB Investment Company states, “We are aggressively considering hotel development in the tier two cities of India”. JNB is also considering expansion of its hospitality business at potential locations in Mumbai, Goa, Chennai, Amritsar, Calicut, Visakhapatnam and Jalandhar.