 IHCL was founded in 1899 by Jamsetji Tata and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.It has more than 160 hotels in 80 locations and 17 countries, with over 20,000 rooms and 25,000 employees.Jamsetji Tata, an Indian industrialist who founded the Tata Group, incorporated IHCL in 1899 and opened its first hotel—The Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India—in 1903.