News: Delhi five-star room rates top Rs 1 lakh a night ahead of the AI Impact Summit-06-02-2026
Room rates at several five-star hotels in Delhi have risen sharply for February as the city prepares to host the AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam from February 16 to 20. Foreign delegates and speakers are expected to arrive in large numbers, and prices in central and south Delhi have jumped.
Aloke Bajpai, CEO of travel portal Ixigo, said in a post on X that some five-star hotels in Delhi cost more than Rs 1 lakh a night between February 16 and 20. A search on Ixigo showed a room at the Imperial in Connaught Place costing more than Rs 2.4 lakh on February 17, while the Radisson Blu was slightly cheaper for the same date at Rs 1.1 lakh a night.
The India-AI Impact Summit 2026 was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the France AI Action Summit and will be the first global AI summit hosted in the Global South.
More than 4,000 Delhi Traffic Police personnel, including 10 deputy commissioners of police, will manage traffic during the event. An officer said the city will be split into 10 zones and 22 sectors covering Bharat Mandapam, 10 luxury hotels in central and south Delhi housing foreign delegates, Indira Gandhi International Airport and the connecting routes.
