| Leading hotelier and Rajya Sabha MP Lalit Suri passed away on Monday morning after a heart attack. Suri died at a London hotel. He was attending a business conference with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. He was 60.
Suri was recently in the news for taking over Asia's oldest hotel, the Great Eastern, from the West Bengal government and announcing a Rs 125-crore revival package for it, says The Indian Express.
But in a career that spanned several decades as chairman and managing director of Bharat Hotels, he had become a businessman known for spotting opportunities. Suri's personal and business interests included aviation, exports, automobile ancillaries, real estate, telecoms and information technology as well as newspaper publishing. He was also known as an art collector and philanthropist.
By 2009, the company planned to offer more than 3,000 rooms with hotels in Chennai, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Noida, Hyderabad, Amritsar and other key cities. Suri was actively involved in promoting tourism and was Global Executive Committee member of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC).
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