By Unique
Most of the hotels today are, more or less, similar looking, boxy buildings with experience centred on identical look and feel. The facilities provided are the same hence they provide no unique experience. We, however, feel that the entire hospitality industry has this immense opportunity, and even a responsibility, of providing new experiences to their customers.
We understand that people want to be comfortable, yes, but they also want to feel involved, invited, and be somewhere relaxing. When we ask ourselves about such an environment, we believe it is only around nature that we find our escape. A hotel shouldn’t exist only to provide you with a comfortable stay. Hotels should also be about making your stay memorable and your experience wonderful.
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Our desire for working with nature has led us to create a 4N concept. Each N represents a unique principle that we have incorporated into our services and spaces, which have all been designed keeping sustainability in mind. Our 4N concept features Nature, Natural Light, Natural Air, and usage of Natural Materials. It is by design that we’re using skylights, glazings in external facades, and trellis for the lights and shadows to ensure that we minimise our use of artificial lighting.
Plant-scape, hanging plants, pots and groves in our surroundings help us bring nature inside the hotel
Use of skylights, use of glazing in external facade, and use of trellis for the light and shadow drama
Use of textured finished materials instead of artificial materials - rough stones, wood, earth, clay bricks, bamboo, etc.
As a hotel, we realise that we have the responsibility of preserving and protecting our environment. We believe that the industry should move towards sustainable practices, and the best way to start would be to go green.
At Renest, we’re adopting what we call the Green Architecture. Through our Green Architecture, we ensure that we save energy wherever possible. From design, construction, maintenance, to the subsequent demolition, our architecture focuses on using renewal energy, the local climate, and eco-friendly and vernacular materials to make this possible. Further, we apply methods and techniques that help us measure and track our energy consumption in real-time.
Although these practices involve huge capital investments and longterm decision making, Renest is being developed without cutting any corners.
One of our most challenging problems is to find the perfect balance between timeless and sustainable aesthetics and the ever-changing trends in architecture, material choices, and consumer expectations. Timeless aesthetics will give sustainability to our investments, therefore moving away from trendy architecture and interiors that aren’t built to last is an important criterion of our design and development process.
We know that people from all walks of life and with all kinds of experiences come together to stay at hotels. This presents us with a unique opportunity of building powerful, social, and lasting communities. We believe that by leveraging the power of hotel spaces, we can truly seize this opportunity.
If we look at the industry, we see that hotels today have become converging points for several activities. In addition to providing a comfortable stay, hotels provide spaces for co-working, showrooms for retail brands, and in some instances, immersive entertainment centres, all on their own. We see this in hotels that have opened up their lobbies to serve as informal co-working spaces or even hotels that have adding formal co-working spaces of their own. The spaces which once had fixed boundaries are now becoming fluid and places where everyone is encouraged to gather, commune, and start new conversations.
We take care of environmental issues, of your health and your wellbeing so that you can get the best experience possible. As an example, we know that outdoor air quality is an important issue, but we also understand that pollution isn’t only confined to what is out there. Indoor air pollution can often become a big threat to people.
We take several measures, such as adding air purification systems to reduce PM 10 and 2.5 levels, as well as CO2 levels, to ensure that your stay remains healthy. At various locations in our hotels, we’ll showcase air quality indexes to help you understand the kind of environment you’re in. Ideas around guest health and well-being will be resonated through our food menus, water quality, and with additional programmes related to wellness.
To us, taking care of people is very important, and reenforcing the idea of growth, freedom, and creativity in our workplace is one of the most important and strong pillars of the values that we share.
The challenge of being efficient while being sustainable with every choice that we make is one that is hard to face. Whether it’s about the working and daily operation of the hotels, or about the initial design and architectural choices, we believe that the efficiency in the hospitality industry has, in fact, gone down.
Usage of unnecessary and complex materials, such as that of the overly complicated process of applying wallpapers, and hindering the creative growth of their people by assigning several people monotonous and repetitive jobs are choices that we can no longer bear to continue living with.
We believe that people can do a lot more than just one job they’re usually assigned, and that they’re truly creative when they’re involved with several activities. It has been proven again and again that after being involved in several verticals, people soon start applying solutions that they learn in one aspect of their job to the others, thereby making room for increased productivity and creativity. Encouraging diversity in opinions and experience, in essence, has led us to solve some of the most complex problems in the world far quicker than we thought was possible.
Our vision at Unique is to become the face of Indian hospitality in the future and Renest is a major step in this direction. Together with Wyndham Worldwide, which is the largest and most diverse hotel group across the globe, we have a laid a strong foundation towards this future.
We're the leading insurance distributor for some of the largest insurance companies in India with a diversified portfolio of affordable Timeshare products. We have a customer base of over 1.8 crores spread throughout the country. From starting our business activity from a small rented space to operating all over India with over 84 offices, 3 Regional Offices and around 415 employees and approximately 100 off-role employees, the Unique Group has seen tremendous and well-deserved growth in the past 18 years.
Chairman and Managing Director
Born to an agrarian family in a small village near Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, Mr. Rajkumar Rai chose to follow his heart and chart a path of his own. He started his career in Kolkata at an early age of 19 and saw promising opportunity in the world of hospitality industry. Under his leadership Unique Group has become one of the largest distributors of health insurance products in the country creating wealth-generation opportunities for an extensive network of agents across tier 2 and tier 3 cities in India.
Executive Director (Marketing, Sales and Distribution)
Mr. Rahul Rai, the second-generation scion of Unique Group believes in the pursuit of imagination, accomplishing goals through innovation. With his vast experience and knowledge on global markets, he is determined in making Unique Group a Global enterprise, and has spearheaded the group's expansion into the Hospitality Sector envisioning a global footprint of Unique Group by 2017.
Director (Finance)
Mr. Utkarsh Rai heads the finance operations for the Unique Group and is one of the strong pillars of the Group. A Management Graduate from the Pune University, he strongly believes that people are the key ingredients for success and works closely with his HR team to recognize individual skills in the organization, and honing them to realize collective potential. He also shares a passion for uplifting the lesser privileged with a vision of starting an NGO in Ahmedabad that will provide shelter, education and livelihood to the needy.
We place high value on partnerships by establishing a long term two-way relationship that is committed to delivering strong profits.