A Hindu cartel on motels and hotels.....

Why Indian Americans Dominate the U.S. Motel Industry - India Real ...

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The Wall Street Journal

Jun 11, 2012 - Nearly half of the motels in the U.S. are owned by Indian Americans. ... He managed a “residential hotel,” which is the present-day equivalent of a ... Part of the reason they gravitated towards the motel business was related to ...

Indian-American Banks Bet on What They Know: Hotels | American ...

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American Banker

Sep 15, 2015 - Chan Patel and Nitin Shah view the hospitality industry -- not ... Only a handful of U.S. banks are owned by Indian-Americans, though they are ...

The affluent Patel clan owns a quarter of US motels. In India, it wants ...

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Aug 25, 2015 - The affluent Patel clan owns a quarter of US motels. ... stores in the UK, from the diamond business in Europe to trading in Africa, ... Made in the USA ... There are some 22,000 hotelsand motels owned by Indians across the ...

Here To Stay: How Indian-Born Innkeepers Revolutionized America's ...

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NPR

Mar 5, 2016 - Indian immigrants and their children comprise about 1 percent of the U.S. ... Diane Rehm Show · Embedded · Latino USA · NPR Politics Podcast .... a hotel or two, as a result of this community taking a business risk and establishing a hotel." ... "It was hard," says Binita Patel, whose parents owned hotels in ...

US Motel Industry Tells Story of Indian-American Immigrants - VOA

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Voice of America

May 2, 2012 - That last fact has been key to the spread of Indian-owned motels and ... of Indian-Americans isn't as enamored with the hotel business as their ...

How Motel Ownership Offers Indian-Americans a Gateway to the ...

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Smithsonian

Feb 27, 2014 - At least half of America's motels are owned by Indian-Americans, and 70 percent of these are owned by people from the same region of ...

A Patel Motel Cartel? - NYTimes.com

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The New York Times

Jul 4, 1999 - But he was Indian and so am I, and it was our little way of touching base. ... According to the latest figures from the Asian American Hotel Owners Association ... outfits in the boondocks -- almost 37 percent are owned by Indians. ... it by many thousands to explain the Indian dominance of the motel business.