Ovolo Hotels () is an independent hotel brand and serviced apartment owner-operator headquartered in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

. Founded by Girish Jhunjhnuwala, Ovolo Hotels remains a privately family-owned business under the Hind Group.

History

Ovolo Hotels started as a serviced-apartment company in 2002. Girish Jhunjhnuwala acquired a single office complex in the heart of Hong Kong's Central Business District and developed it into an upscale serviced apartment. After the opening of its first

serviced apartment Short-term rental describes furnished self-contained apartments that are rented for short periods of time, usually by the month as opposed to annual rentals in the unfurnished apartment rental market. They are seen as an alternative to hotels. "Sh ...

in 2002, the group has expanded. It had eight properties as of 2014. It now has hotels in Melbourne and Sydney. ''The Weekend Australian'' in 2016 reported Jhunjhnuwala's intent to aggressively pursue the Australian market after the successful acquisition and turnaround of a hotel in Woolloomooloo, a suburb of Sydney. EJ Insight reported that Jhunjhnuwala's recent focus on Australian acquisitions is a result of high property prices in Hong Kong and the depreciating Australian dollar. In Hong Kong, Ovolo operates 4 hotels across

Hong Kong Island Hong Kong Island is an Islands and peninsulas of Hong Kong, island in the southern part of Hong Kong. Known colloquially and on road signs simply as Hong Kong, the island has a population of 1,289,500 and its population density is 16,390/km ...

, with an addition of one remaining serviced apartment. Since 2015, Ovolo has offered a live-in coworking space under what it calls the Mojo Nomad programme. In 2020, Ovolo switched all of its hotels and restaurants to go

vegetarian Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slaughter. Vegetarianism m ...

for 365 days.

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External links

Official website
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