Business News Desk !! Prithviraj Singh Oberoi (English: Prithviraj Singh Oberoi, born- 3 February 1929) is the President and Chief Executive Officer of ‘Oberoi Hotel Group’. He is known worldwide as ‘Bikki Oberoi’. His late father’s name was Rai Bahadur M.S. Oberoi was the founder of the ‘Oberoi Hotel Group’. Bikki Oberoi worked to extend the legacy of his father’s hotel business to new heights. He has taken full advantage of each opportunity by reaching the new point of his world-class modern methods to a new point and retaining the brand of ‘Oberoi’. Using experience in his ancestral business, he has made his place among the world’s leading hotel businessmen and his contribution in taking forward the world’s hospitality industry including India is particularly considered.
Early life
Prithviraj Singh Rai Bahadur M.S. Oberoi had another son. He also had an elder brother named Tilak Raj Oberoi. He had started taking deep interest in the hotel business run by his father since childhood. As twenty years of Bikki, his father had expanded his business greatly by establishing himself as a skilled hotel businessman. He was born in a rich family. Since childhood, his father had provided all the amenities of luxury available in the world in dear-love. After completing his education, Bikki went out on a long journey to visit the world as per his father’s wish to take detailed information about the Oberoi Hotel business. During this time, Bikki became aware of the way of living and hospitality of the best hotels in the major countries of the world.
Contribution
Born in a rich family, Bikki Oberoi stayed away from the ancestral hotel business for 32 years. In an interview, he had revealed about the events and secrets of his life during these 32 years that after finishing his studies, he traveled to almost every major country of the world and stayed in the best hotel there and its detailed Studied. In the hotels where he stayed during his visit, he had the first experience of watching the best sample of special types of services along with good food.
With the squeeze of all these years of his world tour, he made full use of his detailed experiences to enrich his father’s business, as a result his father’s hotel business began to move towards much larger expansion than before. He acted in accordance with his father’s wish and his ambition and brought the ‘Oberoi Group’ to the highest position. Through his efficient leadership and management skills, he started a new series of luxury hotels in many countries, due to which ‘Oberoi Hotel’ has been included in the category of luxury hotels internationally.
Currently Bikki is the Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Member of the Committee of Complaints of Investors of EIH Associated Hotels Limited. Apart from this, he is the Chief Executive Officer of Mercury Travels Limited, Chairman of Mumtaz Hotel Limited and Managing Director of Sindhu Hotel Corporation Limited and President of ‘Oberoi Group’. Bikki Oberoi has a special contribution in promoting the hospitality industry (hotel industry) in India and the world, resulting in a high position of Indian hotel business today.
personal life
In 1959, Prithviraj Singh Oberoi was married to Guddi, a rich landowner from a Punjabi family. They born a son Vikram and a daughter Natasha. Currently Natasha is living with her family in Australia after getting married. Bikki Oberoi declared in 2011 that his 47 -year -old son Vikram Oberoi would be the heir of the ‘Oberoi Empire’ and his nephew (elder brother Tilak Raj’s son) 43 -year -old Arjun Oberoi to manage the huge hotel business spread in the world. Will keep helping
Awards and honors
Bikki Oberoi has been honored with the Grand Officer Award ‘Allavui Visam’ by King Mohammad (Sixth) of Morocco in 2001 for his contribution to promote tourism and India-Morocco relations.
He was awarded the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ by the Sixth International Hotel Investment Forum in Berlin in 2003. For his contribution to the development of tourism sector in India in 2004, a special award was awarded by the Department of Tourism, Government of India. In 2007, he was awarded the ‘Lifetime Achievement’ award for the India Business Leader by CNBC TV18. In the year 2008, he has also been awarded the Civil Award ‘Padma Vibhushan’ of the Government of India. In 2008, he was awarded the ‘Lifetime Achievement’ award by South Asia Travel and Tour Exchange. In September 2008, he was awarded the ‘Outstanding Business Leader Award’ by the Chamber of Commerce and Industries and Society of Indian Law firms. In November 2008, he was given the ‘Lifetime Achievement’ award for the young entrepreneur. In 2008, he was awarded the ‘Businessman of the Year’ by Business India magazine. In 2009, the ‘Hall of Fame’ award was awarded by the Hotel Investment Forum India. In the year 2009, the first ‘Economic Times TAAI Travel Awards’ was given to him. In the year 2010, the ‘Corporate Hoteller of the World’ award has also been awarded by the Hotel Magazine magazine.