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Flood Causes Rs 150 Million Loss to Chitwan Hotels

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August 24: Hotels in Sauraha and other areas of Chitwan district incurred a loss of more than Rs 150 million due to the recent floods. Hotel Association of Nepal (HAN) informed that despite such a huge loss, the affected hotels have returned back to normal business after the August 13 floods subsided.

There was no human casualties during the flooding as around 600 tourists were promptly taken to safe areas with the help of elephants and tractors, informed the chairman of Regional Hotel Entrepreneurs Association, Suman Ghimire.

Ghimire further said that after evacuating the tourists, the hoteliers joined hands to clean up the mess in a bid to bring the hotels back in operation.

The eastern parts of the district were not much affected by the floods, according to HAN.

HAN’s General Secretary Vinayak Shah informed that the hoteliers were working in collaboration with airlines companies to announce attractive packages for promotion of tourism in Chitwan. Hotels in Chitwan have been facing a hard time due to the obstruction of vehicular movement along the Mugling-Narayanghat road section.

At a time when the business was hard hit by transportation woes, the flood caused further damage to the hospitality business, said Shah. As the expansion of Mugling-Narayanghat road section would still take some time, hotel entrepreneurs are looking for other alternative means of transportation, including air travel.  

 

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