Hotel Amenities: The Complete Guide for Hotels in India (2026)
Quick Answer
Buy amenities in this order: legal, effective, affordable, memorable. India's HRACC checklist makes guest toiletries mandatory at every star level, bottled toiletries from four stars. Price by cost per occupied room, not per bottle. Check your supplier's manufacturing licence.
Executive Summary
Most guides to hotel amenities are wish lists. This one starts with the law.
If your hotel holds a star classification from the Ministry of Tourism, a specific list of amenities is not optional. The HRACC checklist marks each item as Necessary or Desirable for each star category, and there is no relaxation on the Necessary items. Your classification is inspected, valid for five years, and renewable only on re-inspection.
Below that sits a second requirement most buyers never check: every soap, shampoo and lotion you place in a guest bathroom is a cosmetic under the Cosmetics Rules, 2020. Your supplier needs a manufacturing licence from the State Licensing Authority. If they do not have one, the product in your bathroom is not legal, and the liability does not stay with them.
A third requirement is coming. The government is moving toiletries toward mandatory BIS certification, with rollout expected at the end of 2026.
This guide gives you the full amenity list by category, what each star rating legally requires, how to calculate what amenities cost you per occupied room, and how to evaluate a supplier before you sign. It ends with a framework we use with our own hotel partners: The Four Floors of Amenity Decision-Making.
Table of Contents
- What Hotel Amenities Actually Are
- The Amenities Your Star Rating Legally Requires
- The Three Compliance Layers Nobody Tells You About
- The Complete Hotel Amenities List by Category
- What Amenities Actually Cost: The CPOR Method
- The Misallocation Problem
- The Four Floors of Amenity Decision-Making
- How to Evaluate an Amenities Supplier
- Seven Mistakes That Cost Hotels Money
- The JiViSa Perspective
- Your Amenity Sourcing Checklist
- Frequently Asked Questions
- What to Do Next
The Problem
You are furnishing sixty rooms. A supplier sends you a deck full of neroli and basil, sustainability language, and photographs of marble bathrooms. Nowhere in that deck is a licence number, a cost per occupied room, or a single reference to the classification checklist your property is inspected against.
So you choose on fragrance and price. Then, at your next HRACC inspection, someone asks a question about bottled toiletry provision you were not prepared for.
This is the standard experience of buying hotel amenities in India. The category sells atmosphere and leaves you to work out compliance and economics alone.
Both are knowable. Here they are.
1. What Hotel Amenities Actually Are
Hotel amenities are everything you provide a guest beyond the room itself.
They fall into two groups, and the difference matters when you budget.
Consumable amenities are used up and replaced. Soap, shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, shower gel, dental kits, shaving kits, sanitary bags, slippers, tea and coffee sachets, bottled water. You buy these continuously. They are an operating cost that scales with occupancy.
Fixed amenities are installed once and maintained. Wi-Fi, air conditioning, safe, kettle, hairdryer, television, wardrobe, iron. These are capital items. They scale with room count, not occupancy.
When people search for "hotel amenities," they usually mean the first group. When the Ministry of Tourism inspects you, it looks at both.
There is also a term you will see in procurement documents: guest amenities or wet amenities. Wet amenities are the liquid and solid personal care products in the bathroom. That is the category with the tightest regulation, the highest repurchase frequency, and the largest gap between what hotels pay and what they get.
2. The Amenities Your Star Rating Legally Requires
The Ministry of Tourism's classification scheme is voluntary. Once you enter it, the standards are not.
The Hotel and Restaurant Approval and Classification Committee (HRACC) inspects against a checklist of services and facilities. Each item is marked N for Necessary or D for Desirable, per star category. The guidelines state plainly that there is no relaxation in the Necessary criteria except where the comments column allows it.
Here is what the checklist actually says about the bathroom, taken directly from the guidelines.
Source: Ministry of Tourism, Guidelines for Approval of Hotel Projects and Star Classification of Operational Hotels.
Read the first two rows again, because they are the two most misunderstood lines in Indian hotel procurement.
Guest toiletries are Necessary at every star level. A one-star hotel must provide a new soap per guest. There is no tier at which toiletries become optional.
Bottled toiletry products become Necessary at four stars. Below that they are Desirable. This single line decides whether you can run sachets or must run bottles, and most four-star properties we speak to have never read it.
The phrase "quality products depending on Star category" is doing quiet work too. The checklist does not define quality. Your inspector does.
3. The Three Compliance Layers Nobody Tells You About
Star classification is the layer hoteliers know about. There are two more.
Layer 2: Your supplier needs a cosmetics manufacturing licence
Soap, shampoo, conditioner, lotion and shower gel are cosmetics under Indian law. They are governed by the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and the Cosmetics Rules, 2020.
Every manufacturer must hold a valid licence from the State Licensing Authority. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation sets the framework; the state issues and monitors the licence.
Labelling is regulated too. Indian cosmetic labels must carry a green dot for vegetarian origin or a brown dot for non-vegetarian origin, alongside the standard declarations. Non-compliant labelling can lead to rejection or recall.
Ask any amenities supplier for their manufacturing licence number and the state that issued it. If the answer takes more than a day, you have learned something.
A request we have actually received. A property once asked us to strip all manufacturing information off the label. Not for any bad reason — they wanted the bathroom to look clean and uncluttered, and the mandatory text was interrupting the design.
We said no, and we want to explain why rather than just record that we refused.
Those declarations are not decoration. Manufacturer details, the origin dot, batch and date markings are what a regulator looks for, and what lets a product be traced if anything ever goes wrong with it. A label stripped for visual reasons is a non-compliant product sitting in your guest bathroom, and the property's name is on the room, not the supplier's.
There is a real answer to the underlying problem, and it is a design one. Move the mandatory text to a back panel or a base sticker, work with a smaller compliant type size, choose a label stock that carries fine print cleanly. You can have a bathroom that looks considered and a product that is legal. If a supplier agrees to simply delete the text instead, notice what they have just told you about every other corner they are willing to cut.
Layer 3: BIS certification is coming
The government is considering bringing cosmetics under mandatory BIS certification through Quality Control Orders. Toiletries, hair dye and sunscreen are the segments being tested first. Reporting puts expected rollout at the end of 2026.
If that lands, amenities manufactured outside BIS specification cannot legally be sold. A hotel that signed a three-year supply contract in 2026 with a manufacturer who has not begun aligning could find its supply interrupted mid-contract.
This is a question worth asking every supplier this year: what have you done to prepare for the BIS QCO?
Where JiViSa stands. We do not own a factory. We work with third-party manufacturers who formulate to these standards, and we will provide the certificates for the specific amenities you order, on request.
We would rather say that plainly than let you assume a plant we do not run. It also means the documentation you receive is for your products and your batch, not a general statement about ours.
For completeness, and because we are asking you to check this in others: JiViSa Immunity India LLP holds FSSAI Central Licence 12620005000419, which covers our food and wellness beverage range — the Himalayan teas and herbal infusions, not the bathroom products. Personal care amenities sit under the Cosmetics Rules, 2020 instead, and the relevant manufacturing licences are held by our manufacturing partners. Two different regulators, two different documents. Any supplier who offers you one when you asked for the other is worth a second question.
If you are evaluating us alongside anyone else, ask all of us the same thing and compare what comes back.
4. The Complete Hotel Amenities List by Category
This is the full working list. Use it as a specification document, not a wish list.
Bathroom — wet amenities
| Item | Typical fill | Where it becomes standard |
|---|---|---|
| Soap | 15g–25g | All categories |
| Shampoo | 20ml–30ml | 2★ and above |
| Conditioner | 20ml–30ml | 3★ and above |
| Shower gel / bath gel | 20ml–30ml | 3★ and above |
| Body lotion | 20ml–30ml | 3★ and above |
| Hand wash | 250ml–300ml dispenser | 3★ and above |
| Bath salts | Sachet or jar | 5★ |
| Massage or body oil | 15ml–30ml | 5★, resorts, spa properties |
Bathroom — dry amenities
Dental kit, shaving kit, comb, shower cap, vanity kit with cotton buds and pads, sanitary bag, nail file, sewing kit, shoe shine, loofah, slippers, bathrobe.
Dental and shaving kits are commonly offered on request at three stars and placed in-room at four and five.
Bedroom
Bed linen, pillows and pillow menu, night spread, blackout curtains, wardrobe with minimum four hangers per bed, luggage rack, writing desk, one lamp per bed, 5-amp earthed socket, USB charging, safe, iron and board, tea and coffee station with kettle, minibar, two sealed 500ml water bottles, stationery, laundry bag and list.
Technology
Wi-Fi, television with channel list, telephone with direct dial to front desk, climate control, smart room controls at five star, international plug adapters.
Wellness
Yoga mat, meditation or sleep content, pillow mist, essential oil diffuser, spa access, gym access, in-room stretch guide.
Services
24-hour front desk, room service, daily housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning, wake-up call, doctor on call, travel desk, luggage assistance, message delivery.
5. What Amenities Actually Cost: The CPOR Method
Almost every amenity conversation happens in per-unit prices. That is the wrong unit.
A ₹12 soap and a ₹22 soap look like an 83% difference. Measured against what actually matters, they usually are not.
The right unit is Cost Per Occupied Room — what your amenity programme costs for every room night you actually sell.
The calculation:
Annual amenity spend ÷ Occupied room nights = CPOR
Occupied room nights = Keys × 365 × Occupancy rate
Worked example. A 60-key boutique property in Goa running 68% annual occupancy:
- 60 × 365 = 21,900 available room nights
- 21,900 × 0.68 = 14,892 occupied room nights
Now price two amenity programmes across a full year. Figures below are illustrative and rounded, to show the method. Substitute your own quotes.
| Budget programme | Considered programme | |
|---|---|---|
| Wet amenities per room night | ₹34 | ₹58 |
| Dry amenities per room night | ₹11 | ₹16 |
| Total CPOR | ₹45 | ₹74 |
| Annual cost (14,892 nights) | ₹6,70,140 | ₹11,02,008 |
| Difference | ₹4,31,868/year |
Now put that number next to your ADR.
If that property runs an ADR of ₹6,500, the entire annual difference between a budget and a considered amenity programme is worth about 66 room nights. Less than 0.5% of your occupied nights. Roughly one room, sold for two months.
That is the real trade. Not ₹12 versus ₹22.
Then ask the second question. Does the better programme change anything measurable? Review scores, repeat rate, the willingness of a guest to pay ₹300 more? If it moves ADR by even ₹30 across the year, the ₹4.3 lakh has paid for itself twice.
Run this calculation before your next quote comparison. It reframes the entire negotiation.
6. The Misallocation Problem
Here is a pattern worth checking in your own budget.
Hotels spend generously on amenities guests see and sparingly on amenities guests use.
The bathrobe is a considered purchase. The pillow menu gets a meeting. The shampoo — which a guest puts on their body twice a day, in a bathroom, on skin that has just been through air travel, air conditioning, chlorinated pool water or coastal salt — is usually chosen from a price list.
Think about what actually happens to a guest's skin during a stay. Cabin air at low humidity for hours. Air conditioning running all night. A hotter shower than they take at home. Hard water in much of India. Every one of those strips moisture from the skin barrier.
Then they use a shampoo built around a harsh sulfate because it foams well and costs less.
They do not consciously blame you. They just find their scalp tight, their skin dry, and the stay slightly less comfortable than it should have been. It shows up as a three-star review that says "nice property, something felt off."
Hydration is not a skincare luxury. It is the single measurable thing a bathroom amenity can do for a guest in a hotel environment. A formulation that supports the skin barrier leaves a guest feeling better at checkout than at check-in. One that strips it does the opposite, quietly, in every room, every night.
This is why the second floor of the model below sits where it does.
7. The Four Floors of Amenity Decision-Making
Most hotels shop from the top down. They start with what looks impressive and work backwards to what they can afford, discovering compliance problems last.
Build from the bottom instead. You cannot buy on a higher floor until the floor beneath it is solid.
Floor 4 — Distinction. Signature fragrance. Local ingredients. What guests remember and mention.
Floor 3 — Economics. CPOR within budget. MOQ you can absorb. Reorder lead time you can plan around.
Floor 2 — Efficacy. Does it work on the guest's skin and hair? Barrier support. Hydration. No harsh surfactants. Water-hardness tolerance.
Floor 1 — Legality. HRACC checklist for your star rating. Supplier's SLA manufacturing licence. Compliant labelling. BIS readiness.
Floor 1 — Legality. Non-negotiable. If a product fails here, nothing above it matters. Verify the checklist items for your star category and get your supplier's licence number in writing.
Floor 2 — Efficacy. Does the product do something good for the person using it? This is where most of the category stops thinking, and where the guest experience is actually decided.
Floor 3 — Economics. CPOR, minimum order quantity, lead time, storage footprint. A product that fails on MOQ is not affordable at any unit price if you are a 40-key property.
Floor 4 — Distinction. Now — and only now — choose the fragrance, the packaging, the story. This floor is real and it matters. It is also the only floor your competitors are selling you.
The test: point at any amenity in your current programme and name the floor it was chosen on. If most of your answers are Floor 4, your programme was designed by a supplier's catalogue rather than by you.
8. How to Evaluate an Amenities Supplier
Ten questions. Ask all of them before a first order.
| # | Question | What a good answer looks like |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | What is your cosmetics manufacturing licence number and issuing state? | Given immediately, in writing |
| 2 | Do you manufacture in-house, or work with third-party manufacturers? | Either is fine. Evasiveness is not. |
| 3 | What is your MOQ — per SKU or per order? | Per order is far better for small properties |
| 4 | What is your reorder lead time? | Two to four weeks, stated with confidence |
| 5 | Can I see a full ingredient list, not a marketing list? | Yes, without hesitation |
| 6 | How do you handle batch-to-batch consistency? | A documented process, not a promise |
| 7 | What have you done about the coming BIS QCO? | Awareness at minimum, a plan ideally |
| 8 | Can you private-label, and at what quantity? | A clear threshold |
| 9 | What happens if a batch is faulty on arrival? | A written replacement policy |
| 10 | Can you give me two hotel references at my scale? | Names and numbers |
Questions 1, 5 and 6 are the ones that protect you. Questions 8 and 10 tell you whether the experience will actually be good — and that matters just as much, because your guest never sees a licence. They see the bottle in their hand and smell what is in it.
So this is not a case of compliance mattering more than experience. It is that compliance is the part you cannot fix after you have signed. Settle it early, quickly, and in writing. Then spend your real attention on the part your guest meets.
9. Seven Mistakes That Cost Hotels Money
1. Speccing fill size by price instead of by length of stay.
This is the mistake we see more than any other. If your average stay is 1.8 nights, a 30ml bottle leaves roughly half the product in the bin. You paid for it and you paid to dispose of it. Pull your average length of stay from your PMS and match your fill sizes to it before your next order.
2. Reading "bottled toiletry products" as optional at four stars.
The checklist marks it Necessary from four stars up. Confirm your category before your next inspection cycle.
3. Never asking for the manufacturing licence.
The liability for a non-compliant cosmetic in your bathroom does not stop with your supplier.
4. Buying eco-packaging and calling it a sustainability programme.
The bottle changed. Check whether the formulation did.
Here is the harder half, said plainly: reformulating costs more than reprinting a label. That is why so much of this category has converged on packaging. So the real question is not whether your supplier is able to reformulate. It is whether your sustainability standard is one you are prepared to fund.
If it is, we will formulate to it. When a hotel stands by its own standards, we stand by them in the formulation.
5. Comparing unit prices instead of CPOR.
See section 5. It is the single fastest way to make a better decision.
6. Ignoring water hardness.
Much of India runs hard water. A formulation that lathers well in Mumbai can behave differently in Jaipur. Ask your supplier whether they have tested for it.
7. Signing a long contract before the BIS position is clear.
2026 is the wrong year to lock in three years with a manufacturer who has not started aligning.
10. The JiViSa Perspective
We supply science-backed Ayurvedic personal care to hotels, resorts and spas across India, working with third-party manufacturers who formulate to EU ingredient standards.
Properties we have worked with include IHCL's Vivanta and SeleQtions hotels and Taj Spa, JW Marriott Mussoorie, The Westin Resort & Spa in the Himalayas, Renaissance Goa, and Vileen Rishikesh — and, off the ground, Vistara's business class service and IndiGo's crew wellness kits.
A few things we have learned across those rooms that are not in anyone's catalogue:
Procurement and the GM are buying two different things, and a proposal that only speaks to one of them stalls.
Procurement is buying the absence of a problem. Nobody in that role gets promoted for a beautiful soap. They get called into rooms over a batch that arrived wrong two weeks before peak season, a compliance question they could not answer, or a complaint that reached the owner. Their win is that nothing goes wrong.
Your head of operations, your guest experience lead and your GM are measured on something else entirely — what the guest actually felt. They benefit directly when the amenity is good, not merely correct. A better product shows up in their reviews and their repeat rate, not in procurement's.
So when you build the internal case, split it. Take compliance, supply reliability and cost per occupied room to procurement. Take the guest experience to the GM. We have watched good proposals die in the gap between those two people simply because they were written for only one of them.
MOQ is the real barrier for boutique properties, not unit price.
A 45-key property can usually afford a better product per bottle. What stops it is a minimum order quantity written for a chain. Per-SKU minimums are the worst version: five products, each at chain-scale minimum, and a small hotel ends up holding two years of stock in a corridor cupboard.
Ask every supplier whether the minimum is per order or per SKU. It is the question that decides whether a good supplier is available to you at all, and it is almost never on the price list.
Since we are asking you to demand this number from suppliers, here is ours: we do not set a minimum order quantity. We have supplied properties with twenty rooms.
You should hear the trade-off before you get too pleased about that. At low volumes the unit price rises, and customisation narrows — a twenty-key property will not get the per-bottle economics or the bespoke packaging that a two-hundred-key property gets. That is production reality, not a negotiating position, and any supplier who tells you otherwise is deciding what to tell you later.
But the order is possible. If you run a small property, that is a different conversation from the one you are used to having.
Fragrance preference follows geography, reliably enough that we now ask where a property is before we ask what it likes.
Coastal properties gravitate to lighter citrus and neroli profiles. Hill stations ask for warmer, woodier notes.
There is sense in it. A scent that reads clean and cooling in humid coastal air can feel thin in cold mountain air, where a warmer note reads as comfort. The same bottle genuinely performs differently in Goa and in Coorg.
Test any shortlisted fragrance in a real room at your property, in your season, with the air conditioning running. Not from a scent card in a meeting room.
Hotels switch suppliers over consistency, not price.
A batch that smells different from the last one is a bigger problem than a batch that costs more. Your guest has no idea what you pay per bottle. They do notice when the shampoo in room 214 is not the one they remember from their last stay, and your housekeeping team notices immediately when a cap stops fitting or a label peels in humidity.
Price gets renegotiated. Inconsistency gets a supplier replaced. Ask question 6 in the table above properly, and ask it before the first order rather than after the third.
The best evidence we have for that last point is not a review. It is a general manager who changed hotels.
Roopa Singh first worked with us at JW Marriott Mussoorie, where we built personalised wellness kits and a sensory check-in experience for the property. When she later moved to Renaissance Goa and started building guest experiences there, she brought us with her.
She put it better than we would: "I knew that if I shared an idea with you, you wouldn't just execute it — you would understand the vision behind it and make it even better."
That is the whole argument for consistency in one sentence. A general manager crossing from one hotel group to another is under no obligation to keep a supplier. Nothing carries over. The relationship survived because the product and the process did — and because the second property could trust that what arrived in Goa would hold the same standard as what arrived in Mussoorie.
When you are evaluating a supplier, this is the reference to ask for. Not a client list. A buyer who chose them twice, at two different properties.
The most interesting request we have ever received came from JW Marriott Mussoorie.
They did not ask for amenities. They asked whether we could build a check-in ritual that moved a guest through all five senses, so that someone arriving off a long mountain drive could set the fatigue of the journey down before the stay actually began.
We built it. The Sensory Check-In Experience is now our own IP, curated exclusively for properties that want it, alongside the JW Garden Collection we developed using herbs grown in the resort's own gardens.
We include it here because of what the question reveals. The property was not thinking about the bathroom. It was thinking about the first four minutes of a stay, and it went looking for a partner who could think in those terms too.
If your amenity brief is a list of SKUs, you will receive a list of SKUs. Brief the experience you are trying to create and you will find out very quickly which suppliers can work at that level and which cannot.
11. Your Amenity Sourcing Checklist
Compliance
- Pulled the HRACC checklist for my exact star category
- Confirmed bottled toiletry requirement for my category
- Have supplier's SLA manufacturing licence number in writing
- Checked labelling for the green or brown origin dot
- Asked every shortlisted supplier about BIS QCO readiness
Economics
- Calculated occupied room nights for the year
- Calculated CPOR for each quote, not unit price
- Compared the annual difference against ADR in room nights
- Confirmed MOQ is per order, not per SKU
- Confirmed reorder lead time in writing
Product
- Reviewed full ingredient lists, not marketing lists
- Asked about hard-water performance
- Matched fill size to average length of stay
- Sampled in a real guest room, not a boardroom
- Checked batch consistency process
Experience
- Chosen fragrance appropriate to location and season
- Confirmed packaging survives housekeeping handling
- Decided private-label versus supplier-brand
- Briefed housekeeping on placement
12. Frequently Asked Questions
What are hotel amenities?
Products and services a hotel provides beyond the room itself — toiletries, towels, Wi-Fi, air conditioning, room service and more. In India, several are legally required for star-classified hotels.
Are hotel amenities free?
Consumable amenities like soap, shampoo and slippers are included in your room rate. Minibar items, spa treatments and laundry are usually charged separately.
What is the difference between amenities and facilities?
Amenities are provided to you — a soap, a bathrobe, a bottle of water. Facilities are shared spaces you use — the pool, gym, restaurant or business centre.
What are wet amenities?
The liquid and solid personal care products in the bathroom: soap, shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, body lotion. They carry the tightest regulation and the highest repurchase frequency.
Are guest toiletries mandatory in Indian hotels?
For star-classified hotels, yes. The HRACC checklist marks guest toiletries, with a minimum of one new soap per guest, as Necessary at every star level from one to five.
At what star rating do bottled toiletries become mandatory?
Four stars. Below that the checklist marks bottled toiletry products as Desirable.
Does my amenities supplier need a licence?
Yes. Soaps, shampoos and lotions are cosmetics under the Cosmetics Rules, 2020, and manufacturers require a licence from the State Licensing Authority.
What is a cosmetics QCO and does it affect hotels?
A Quality Control Order makes BIS certification mandatory for a product category. Cosmetics including toiletries are under consideration, with rollout expected at the end of 2026. If your supplier is not aligned, your supply could be interrupted.
What is CPOR for amenities?
Cost Per Occupied Room — your annual amenity spend divided by occupied room nights. It is the only number that makes two quotes genuinely comparable.
How much should a hotel spend on amenities per room?
There is no single benchmark worth trusting, because the honest answer depends on your star category, your ADR and what you are positioning the property on. A ₹45 CPOR is generous at one end of the market and thin at the other. Work it out for yourself instead: calculate your CPOR for each quote, then express the annual difference as room nights against your ADR. That number tells you what the decision is actually worth to your business, which no industry average can.
What is MOQ and why does it matter?
Minimum Order Quantity is the smallest order a supplier will accept. Per-SKU minimums make small properties overbuy. Per-order minimums are far more workable below 80 keys.
Should a boutique hotel use dispensers or bottles?
Dispensers reduce packaging waste and theft. Bottles feel more premium and are required from four stars. Many properties run dispensers for shower gel and shampoo, and bottles for lotion.
Can small hotels get custom-branded amenities?
Often yes, above a threshold quantity. Ask for the private-label minimum specifically — it is usually different from the standard MOQ.
How do I choose a fragrance for my property?
Match it to location, season and guest profile. Test in a real room with the air conditioning running, not from a card.
Do eco-friendly amenities actually matter to guests?
Packaging is visible and gets mentioned in reviews. Formulation is what the guest's skin experiences. The two are separate decisions and both deserve attention.
How often should amenities be replaced in a room?
Consumables are replenished at each new check-in and topped up during stay-over servicing. The classification guidelines require a clean change of bed and bath linen daily and between check-ins, with alternate days permitted at one and two stars.
What amenities do Indian guests specifically expect?
Two sealed bottles of branded packaged drinking water of at least 500ml are required at all star levels, and UV-treated water is explicitly not acceptable. A water spray, bidet or washlet is also required at every star category.
How long does it take to reorder hotel amenities?
Two to four weeks is typical for stocked lines. Custom and private-label runs take longer. Confirm lead time in writing before peak season.
13. What to Do Next
Start on Floor 1. Pull the HRACC checklist for your star category and check your current bathroom against it, line by line. Then ask your supplier for their manufacturing licence number.
Once those are solid, run the CPOR calculation on your existing programme. Most hotels find the number is smaller than they assumed, and that the gap between what they buy and what they could buy is worth less than a room.
Then you can spend Floor 4 money knowing exactly what it is buying you.
Download the JiViSa Hotel Amenities Catalogue for full specifications, fill sizes and minimum order quantities across our hotel range.
Written by Snehi Singh, Co-Founder and Brand Head, JiViSa.
With Kahkasha Khan, Product Development Head, JiViSa.
Between us we specify, formulate and deliver amenity programmes for hotels, resorts, spas and airlines across India — including IHCL's Vivanta and SeleQtions properties and Taj Spa, JW Marriott Mussoorie, The Westin Resort & Spa in the Himalayas, Renaissance Goa and Vileen Rishikesh. The compliance detail in this guide is the same detail we work through with a property before its first order.
JiViSa supplies science-backed Ayurvedic personal care and hotel amenities, working with third-party manufacturers who formulate to EU ingredient standards. Certificates for any ordered amenity are available on request.
JiViSa · CIN U21004UT2026PTC021255 · Dehradun, Uttarakhand. FSSAI Central Licence 12620005000419, held by JiViSa Immunity India LLP, covers our food and wellness beverage range. Personal care amenities fall under the Cosmetics Rules, 2020, and are manufactured by licensed third-party partners.
Sources
- Ministry of Tourism, Government of India — Guidelines for Approval of Hotel Projects and Star Classification / Re-classification of Operational Hotels
- Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation — Cosmetics Rules, 2020, under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940
- Bureau of Indian Standards — Quality Control Orders, cosmetics under consideration
