Chalet Hotels Limited — Q2 FY26
Chalet Hotels reported a strong Q2 FY26 with consolidated revenue surging 94% YoY to ₹740 crore, driven by residential project revenue recognition of ₹280 crore.
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Early trends after Dukes rebranding to Aiva and margin impact from sales/marketing investments.
Asked by Vikas Auda, Antics Stock Broking
Management gave qualitative optimism but no hard numbers on early trends.
no specific occupancy numbersqualitative only
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regarding the rebranding of Dukes to Aiva although it has been only few weeks could you share any early trends in occupancy or following the brand transition. Additionally with the repositioning of the property under the new brand should we build in any impact on margins in coming years due to increase in sales and marketing investments
Sanjay (CEO)
very early days as far as Duke's trends are concerned I can tell you it's been very positively received... we do expect that in about 3/4 time 3 to four quarters time it will have reached stable occupancies of the mid60s and the margins should be high on the sales and marketing front we don't expect any material change
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Expectation for occupancy to return above 70% in H2 and steady-state occupancy levels.
Asked by Vikas Auda, Antics Stock Broking
Declined to provide specific occupancy guidance, only qualitative assurance.
refused to give forward-looking numbersno specific occupancy target
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do we expect occupancy to come back above 70% in second half... for the medium-term what should we consider as a steady state occupancy levels across portfolios particularly for business hotels versus resorts
Sanjay (CEO)
we don't give forwardlooking numbers but I can assure you that the second half is going to be robust and strong and we should be back to the occupies that we've been delivering in the past. This is a one quarter one or two quarter blip on account of new inventory addition.
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Lease revenue increase minimal; when will Signis 1 be fully leased and monthly run rate?
Asked by Vikas Auda, Antics Stock Broking
Provided current and target rental run rate but no specific timeline for full occupancy.
no timeline for full lease-up
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the lease space revenues increased only marginally this quarter around 60 lakhs... by when do we expect full 0.9 million square ft at signness one to be fully leased and what will be the monthly run rate for rentals expected once it's fully occupied
Smith (CFO)
leasing activity was muted this quarter primary as discuss on few key accounts... from my earlier statement exit of March we are still expected to exit at rupees 30 crores per month rental. Currently it is at 24.5 cr per month.
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Thought process on eventually entering management contracts for Aiva brand.
Asked by Deepak Saha, Rainwell Bank Institution Equities
No concrete plans or timeline shared; only vague future possibility.
no timelinevague future possibility
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once it matures do we have plans to finally enter into management contracts and those sort of portfolios
Sanjay (CEO)
look at the moment we don't have any timeline in mind. I don't think it's imminent. but what we've done is we've created a springboard for an asset like business at some point of time sometime in future.
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Resort portfolio occupancy and ADR trends for coming quarters.
Asked by Deepak Saha, Rainwell Bank Institution Equities
No quantitative guidance on occupancy or ADR; only qualitative optimism.
no specific numbersqualitative only
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if you can share some color from occupancy and point of view is it that occupancies will revert back to the normal levels or you are seeing occupancies higher than last year and how the ARS are shaping up
Gaurav (COO)
it will be difficult to predict an exact occupancy level but we do expect it to be really strong both on occupancy and ADR and therefore the business should come rolling back
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Update on additional 40 keys at Kandala phase 2 and full impact timing.
Asked by Deepak Saha, Rainwell Bank Institution Equities
Provided specific update on keys and timing of full impact.
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the additional keys that 40 that we're talking about the phase two was expected I think for Q2 FI23. Any update on that part and will we have full impact on Q3 and Q4?
Gaurav (COO)
the 147 rooms in Kandala we were only short by about 25 keys and that's ready. in fact we have our first sold out date coming on 14th of November. So we will get about half of this quarter getting the entire key count at Kandala and Q4 will have the full impact.
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Is mid-teen to early 20s growth possible in H2 given higher base?
Asked by Deepak Saha, Rainwell Bank Institution Equities
No quantitative confirmation; only vague assurance.
no specific numbersqualitative only
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is it case to assume that given you're seeing strong traction on the leisure side and business continues to be strong given less number of holidays and continuous working days kind of a mid teen to early 20s limited growth is still possible.
Sanjay (CEO)
You will get me to answer that somehow but broadly I would say that you know absolutely we should hit that and and hopefully better.
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Positioning of Aiva brand and whether Goa and Mumbai properties are part of Chalet portfolio.
Asked by Aban, Access Capital
Provided clear positioning and confirmed portfolio inclusion.
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the kind of positioning that Shal is thinking for Ativa if there is any comparable brand that we can think of... the Goa and ones were the ones we already knew but the Axar beach and the Mumbai one they are properties of the group. So will they be part of the share portfolio now or will there be something which is outside sh portfolio but still be managed by them
Sanjay (CEO)
we are positioned for the affluent young travelers with the millennial and the gen mindset... we'll be akin to the marriage within the marriage portfolio, the stars in the stars portfolio... Goa one of the resorts is going to be at the higher end to be a luxury resort. the other one will be pretty much a fivestar deluxe tab.
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Reason for low ADR growth in Mumbai and NCR decline; October trends.
Asked by Aban, Access Capital
Explained reasons but did not provide specific October occupancy/ADR data.
no specific October numbers
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While Hyderabad Bangalore has seen very strong AR growth we saw Mumbai at low single digits in terms of growth and NCR has actually seen a decline. So is there any particular property within Mumbai that is causing this kind of trend or is it like a broadbased trend? And are we seeing what sort of improvement are we seeing in October so far?
Gaurav (COO)
in Mumbai if our two big boxes are in Hawaii and Sahar... Sahar has seen some supply of late of about a thousand rooms... we have still managed to grow our market share at Sahar by 3 percentage point. October wasn't necessarily very strong but overall we have done still we have still done well
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Reason for launching own brand instead of tying up with large branded chains.
Asked by Prashant Bani, LR Capital
Provided clear rationale for brand launch.
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what made us to take this step to carve out our own brand.
Sanjay (CEO)
we were anyway running three hotels individually named and we want to build more we should again have individual names it didn't make sense to do that I thought there was value to be created by stringing them together with a common name
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Marketing strategy for Aiva without international distribution network.
Asked by Prashant Bani, LR Capital
Provided historical performance and strategy for domestic market focus.
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can you give a detailed elaboration of your marketing strategy for Akiva as without the support of distribution network of international hotel chains getting optimum occupancy at high AR could be a herculan task.
Sanjay (CEO)
when we bought over Duke's retreat it was operating at roughly around 70% occupancy with an average room rate of 8,000 with 80 rooms. Today we have close to 14 almost 147 rooms ready. We are operating at 14,000. our occupancies will build up to similar occupancies despite 80% expansion in capacity
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Incremental EBITDA benefit from own brand vs third-party brand.
Asked by Prashant Bani, LR Capital
Did not provide any incremental EBITDA estimate; deflected by saying it's not a major play.
no quantitative comparisondownplayed financial impact
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how much incremental aida can you make with your own brand visav if you would have continued with the current business model of a third party brand.
Sanjay (CEO)
it's not about incremental or massive expansion or bitter margin. I'm saying today he can maintain a bitter margin and absolutely bitter contribution and grow the revenue at the market pace... it's not necessarily the biggest thing that we have going.