Hoteliers want to resume business by taking safety measures

Kathmandu - Federation of Hotel Entrepreneurs has demanded that hoteliers should be allowed to get back to business by taking safety measures. In a press statement Tuesday, the Federation said hotel business had been down with the nationwide lockdown imposed by the government owing to risk of COVID-19 infection and the business should be allowed to reopen by implementing safety measures in the present circumstances.

It also accused the government of ignoring its call to use hotels as COVID-19 quarantines and turning to other organisations by paying higher prices. The Federation also expressed its concern that Nepali migrant returnees from Qatar, Malaysia, Dubai and Gulf countries were made to stay in expensive hotels for a quarantine stay on their own expenses. Stating that hotel entrepreneurs were hit hard by the lockdown, it has sought 50 per cent discount on house rent and special discount on electricity, water, telephone and internet tariffs for the lockdown period.