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with variety in menus and mid conference-team building activities, they are more often sure of our selection,” says Managing Director, Welgrow Group. “Dedicated MICE hotels can easily be distinguished from other properties based on various parameters. A MICE hotel would normally have a large inventory of rooms, typically more than 300 rooms and most of them would be standard base category with majority being twin bed rooms. The hotels are more business friendly and typically the room size would be smaller compared to a Leisure hotel with basic in-room facilities including free Wi-Fi. The conference halls and banqueting spaces will typically be large enough and preferably pillar-less with high ceilings to hold as many guests as the number of rooms and they will have an option to reduce the sizes of the halls as per the requirement. The hotel will most likely have a dedicated event management team in-house to assist the clients in organising a successful event. The hotel will be technologically updated to provide all conferencing equipment of high standards. The hotel will be able to offer multi-cuisine to cater to delegates from various nationalities,” says Nagpal. “The convention facilities certainly differentiate a MICE hotel from other properties. We choose a MICE hotel for its convention facilities such as the Grand Hyatt Mumbai or Kempinski Delhi, however, other