How Many Hotels Are There in India? (2026 Numbers)

On the Ministry of Tourism's NIDHI+ portal (checked 14 November 2026), 26,869 hotels are registered, and 1,702 of them are star-classified; counting every accommodation type on the registry, the total is 59,855 units. Separately, India has 2,008 branded (chain) hotels with 196,464 rooms, per Hotelivate's FY2024-25 report. No official census of all hotels exists, and NIDHI+ registration is voluntary, so the real number of hotels in India is higher than any registered figure.

Each published number answers a slightly different question, so keep them separate. NIDHI+ is the Ministry of Tourism's registry, and signing up is voluntary for accommodation units, which is why it is not a census.

The NIDHI+ registry splits registered accommodation into 14 unit types, and "Hotel" is only one of them.

All figures are from the NIDHI+ registry as checked on 14 November 2026. Together, all registered accommodation units add up to 59,855, and hotels account for 26,869 of them.

Of the 26,869 registered hotels, 1,702 hold a star classification. That count will not grow: the Ministry of Tourism discontinued its voluntary hotel classification scheme with effect from 16 March 2026, and applications still pending on that date were closed. Read the 1,702 as a fixed snapshot of hotels classified under the government scheme before it ended, not a live measure of rated quality. Beyond hotels, the registry also shows classified units among other types, such as 738 bed-and-breakfast properties, 255 homestays and 66 heritage properties.

Hotelivate's 28th Indian Hospitality Trends & Opportunities Report puts branded supply at 196,464 rooms across 2,008 hotels in FY2024-25. Those hotels operate in 337 cities across 34 states and union territories. This is chain-branded supply only, a different slice of the market from the ministry registry. More branded supply is being signed, with JLL reporting 51,647 branded rooms signed across 424 properties in 2025 and 71% of the signings in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.

The Mantis list of hotels in India holds 2,555 hotels and guest houses found on Google Maps and checked, last updated 6 November 2026. It is a working sample built for outreach, not a census of any city or of the country. Of the 2,555 entries, 2,209 have a phone number, 1,561 have a website, 173 emails were found on their sites, and 22 named decision-makers are identified. By type, the list contains 1,256 hotels, 631 guest houses and 514 lodgings.

City lists: Gurgaon, Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Kota, Pune, Ahmedabad, Indore, Bangalore.

These are the 13 cities with the most entries in the list, as of 6 November 2026.

For anyone selling to hotels, the useful detail sits inside the websites. Of the 215 hotel websites Mantis read from the list, 71% take online bookings, while 30% have no online booking at all. Among the same sites, 78% run no ad pixel, 35% have no analytics, 31% display a WhatsApp number, and 13% look outdated. The list page notes that most Indian hotels outside the chains depend on OTAs for bookings and pay commission on each one. For a booking engine, channel manager or web agency, the gaps are visible in these figures: no site, no booking engine, no pixel, no analytics.

Mantis also tracks hotels and guest houses without websites: 4,486 properties with an active Google listing and no website, updated 13 November 2026, of which 4,190 have a phone number. The cities with the most such properties are Gurgaon (71), Chennai (68), Kolkata (65), Mumbai (64) and Jaipur (63).

Quote 26,869 registered hotels (59,855 registered units of all types) when you mean the ministry registry, and 2,008 branded hotels with 196,464 rooms when you mean chain supply — and say which one you are counting. If you sell to hotels and need properties to contact, the list of hotels in India is the practical starting point. Sign up: 500 free credits once at signup, no card.

I'm Tarun, founder of Mantis.