AI summit impact: Delhi 5-star hotel rooms cross ₹1 lakh per night

Room rates at multiple five-star hotels in Delhi have climbed steeply for February as the city prepares to host the AI Impact Summit.

Updated on: Feb 9, 2026, 13:04:46 IST

By Sanya Jain

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Room rates at multiple five-star hotels in Delhi have climbed steeply for February as the city prepares to host the AI Impact Summit. The AI Impact Summit will take place at Bharat Mandapam in central Delhi from February 16 to 20. Preparations are in full swing for the event, which will see foreign delegates and speakers descend upon the national capital.

The AI Impact Summit will take place at Bharat Mandapam in central Delhi from February 16 to 20.

5-star hotel prices skyrocket

With a host of national and international guests set to travel to Delhi, the prices of hotels in central and south Delhi have spiked sharply.

Aloke Bajpai, CEO of travel portal Ixigo, noted that the cost of some 5-star hotels in Delhi has crossed ₹1 lakh per night between February 16 to 20.

“The India AI Impact Summit has surely impacted hotel rates in Delhi NCR. Several 5 star hotels in Delhi are going at 1 Lakh+ per night between 16-20 Feb,” Bajpai said in an X post.

A quick search on Ixigo shows that booking a room at the Imperial in Connaught Place, central Delhi will cost more than ₹2.4 lakh on February 17.

Radisson Blu for the same date is marginally cheaper at ₹1.1 lakh per night.

More about the AI Impact Summit

The India–AI Impact Summit 2026, was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the France AI Action Summit and it will be the first-ever global AI summit hosted in the Global South.

Over 4,000 Delhi Traffic Police personnel, including 10 deputy commissioners of police (DCPs), will be deployed to manage traffic during the summit, and the city will be divided into 10 zones.

The 10 “zones”, which will further be divided into 22 sectors, will cover the event venue at Bharat Mandapam, 10 luxury hotels in central and south Delhi where foreign delegates will stay, the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, and the routes connecting all these locations, an officer said, citing the plan.

(Also read: Over 4,000 police personnel to manage traffic during AI impact summit in Delhi starting Feb 16)

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Sanya Jain
Sanya Jain is an Assistant Editor with Hindustan Times Digital. She has nearly a decade of experience in covering offbeat stories that speak to the everyday experience - from viral videos to human interest copies that spark conversation. Her interests stretch across business, pop culture, social media trends, entertainment and global affairs. Before joining Hindustan Times, Sanya spent two years with Moneycontrol and five years with NDTV. She holds an undergraduate degree in English literature from St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and a master’s in journalism from the Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai. Sanya has a sharp eye for spotting emerging trends and looking for newsworthy angles to elevate viral posts into meaningful narratives. She was the first one, for example, to cover Narayana Murthy’s remark on 70-hour work weeks that sparked a national conversation. She is equally at ease writing about business leaders as about the common man, about issues of national importance and memes that amuse social media. Sanya enjoys speaking with content creators, newsmakers and entrepreneurs to transform everyday moments into engaging, slice-of-life stories that resonate with readers. When she is not working, Sanya can be found curled up with a good book. Born and raised in Lucknow, she has spent the last several years in Delhi. She is deeply interested in animal welfare and now spends a lot of her time running after her destructive orange cat.Read More

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