Sterling Holiday Resorts Limited

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Sterling Holidays
Type Public
BSE: 523363
IndustryLeisure Hospitality, Vacation Ownership, Timeshare, MICE, Corporate Travel and Adventure Holidays
Founded1986
FounderR. Subramanian
Headquarters
Key people
Vikram Lalvani (Managing Director and CEO) starting April 2022
ProductsLeisure Travel, Timeshare, Vacation Ownership, MICE, Corporate Travel, Adventure Holidays
Parent Sterling Holiday Resorts Limited
Subsidiaries Nature Trails Resorts Private Limited
Website www.sterlingholidays.com

Sterling Holiday Resorts Limited (known as Sterling), a leading leisure holiday lifestyle company, incorporated in the year 1986. In 2015, Sterling Holiday Resorts India Limited became a 100% independently managed subsidiary of Thomas Cook India Limited (TCIL) in the back of the former's equity shares being bought in an off-market transaction by Thomas Cook Insurance Services (TCISIL).

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Thomas Cook India Limited (TCIL) traded on stock exchange as NSE: THOMASCOOK; BSE: 500413. Sterling currently has 37 resorts in India.

Sterling Holiday Resorts Limited, signed an agreement in October 2015 to acquire Nature Trails Resorts Private Limited – an adventure holiday company that operates resorts at 4 destinations in Maharashtra. It has been reported that the company is looking at expanding to more destinations. [1]

Sterling is affiliated with Resorts Condominium International (RCI) which has 4600 affiliated resorts worldwide and 110 resorts in India. It is also accredited by AIRDA (All India Resorts Development Association). [2]

History

Sterling was established in 1986 in Chennai, India, and opened its first resort, Lake View Kodaikanal (the resort has been recently renamed as Kodai – By The Lake). Sterling Holidays expanded to 11 resorts by the year 1988. In 2010, the company changed its brand name from Sterling Resorts to Sterling Holidays. [3]

The holiday company currently operates 37 resorts in 30 scenic destinations across the country (as of March 2023) and counting. [4]

Resorts

The resorts in the Sterling destination network are spread across India. Sterling Mantra Haridwar and Sterling Shivalik Chail are their latest addition to Sterling Holidays. Sterling has been delivering great holiday experiences for more than three decades now. Their resort destination network has something to suit every holiday appetite, from majestic hillsides to beachside nirvana to jungle retreats to riverside resorts to spiritual sojourns.

Sterling Resort Logo of bloggers meet in Puri resort Puri Sterling 17.jpg
Sterling Resort Logo of bloggers meet in Puri resort
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Sterling Resort Puri interiors

Notable Resorts [5]

  1. Sterling Lake Palace - Alleppy
  2. Sterling House Boat - Alleppy
  3. Sterling Anaikatti
  4. Sterling Corbett
  5. Sterling Darjeeling
  6. Sterling Gangtok – Orange Village
  7. Sterling Rudra Gir
  8. Sterling Goa Varca
  9. Sterling Guruvayur
  10. Sterling Kalimpong
  11. Sterling Kanha
  12. Sterling Karwar
  13. Sterling Kodai – Lake
  14. Sterling Kodai – Valley
  15. Sterling Kufri
  16. Sterling Lonavala
  17. Sterling Madurai
  18. Sterling Manali
  19. Sterling Mantra Haridwar
  20. Sterling Mount Abu
  21. Sterling Munnar
  22. Sterling Mussoorie
  23. Sterling Nainital
  24. Sterling Ooty – Elk Hill
  25. Sterling Ooty – Fern Hill
  26. Sterling Padam Pench
  27. Sterling Palavelli Godavari
  28. Sterling Puri
  29. Sterling Rishikesh
  30. Sterling Sariska
  31. Sterling Shivalik Chail
  32. De Laila HouseBoats Srinagar
  33. Sterling Thekkady
  34. Sterling Arunai Anantha Tiruvannamalai
  35. Sterling Wayanad
  36. Sterling Yelagiri
  37. Sterling Yercaud

Timeline [6]

About investors

In 2009, Bay Capital (formerly Indus Hospitality Fund) invested in Sterling Holiday Resorts, [7] acquiring an 18.80% stake. Again in 2009, India Discovery Fund acquired a 7% stake in the company. Bay Capital and others (including India Discovery Fund, Damani group and Jhunjhunwala group) now holds a total stake of 47.42% in Sterling Holiday Resorts through its funds.

In July 2011, the company announced an Extraordinary General Meeting on 13 August 2011 to seek shareholder approval to raise Rs. 121.5 crore capital through the issuance of equity shares & warrants on a preferential basis to a consortium of investors led by Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and Radhakrishna Damani. [8]

On 7 February 2014, Thomas Cook India Ltd. (TCIL) & Sterling Holiday Resorts Limited announced a merger between the companies. [9]

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