Hotels open but customers yet to arrive

Kathmandu - Hotels in Sauraha, the main gateway to the Chitwan National Park opened since the government lifted the lockdown but are yet to receive any guests. Soon after the hotels opened, movement of people was seen but residential guests have not yet arrived. Though foreign tourists were not likely, the entrepreneurs had expected to receive domestic tourists, said outgoing chair of Regional Hotel Association, Sauraha Suman Ghimire.

"Three rooms of my hotel had been booked after we announced resumption of service, but the bookings were later cancelled," said Ghimire who runs the Jungalee Safari Lodge. Other hotels who resumed service are also facing the same situation. Hotel entrepreneurs are now looking forward to the resumption of long distance public transportation and aviation service announced for August 17.