{"id":24462,"date":"2015-10-07T17:47:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=24462"},"modified":"2015-10-07T17:47:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:17:57","slug":"mascot-hotel-to-undergo-a-major-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/mascot-hotel-to-undergo-a-major-renovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mascot Hotel to undergo a major renovation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soon the prestigious Mascot Hotel at PMG, Trivandrum will be renovated. Kerala State Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC) has come up with a plan to renovate Mascot Hotel at a cost of <strong>Rs.5 crore.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The maintenance of Mascot Hotel, spread over five acres of prime land in the heart of the capital is long overdue. The annexe block, heritage block, west block, and the restaurant and kitchen at the hotel, in the heritage business category, will be renovated. Apart from these, suits, swimming pools garden, lobby and conference halls will also be renovated.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The hotel will be renovated so as to get 5-star status.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The hotel will be renovated so as to get 5-star status. The renovated Mascot hotel will also have bar facility. The hotel had a bar earlier but later the licence was revoked.<\/p>\n<p>Of the Rs.5 crore sanctioned for upgrading the properties, Rs.2.5 crore would be as equity and the balance as term loan. The KTDC had been asked to complete the works in 12 months. Though it was planned to start the work this month, it was rescheduled to next year to avoid inconvenience to the guests during the peak tourist season. The work was likely to be taken up in March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Initially built to accommodate the officers of the Royal British Army during <strong>World War I<\/strong>, Mascot Hotel was later taken over by the Tourism and Handicraft Development Corporation and eventually handed over to the Department of Tourism. Today the hotel offers travellers the perfect blend of heritage, luxury and business in the heart of Trivandrum city<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon the prestigious Mascot Hotel at PMG, Trivandrum will be renovated. Kerala State Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC) has come up with a plan to renovate Mascot Hotel at a cost of Rs.5 crore. The maintenance of Mascot Hotel, spread over five acres of prime land in the heart of the capital is long overdue. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":24463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-24462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}