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With Covid-19-related services driving demand, hotels see long wait ahead

With demand drying up, hotels are surviving on quarantine centres and isolation facilities

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Shally Seth Mohile Mumbai

4 min read Last Updated : Jul 30 2020 | 11:29 PM IST

Almost a month after re-opening, occupancies across hotels remain at a fourth of the original capacity, with this too, largely coming from the Covid-19 induced quarantine business. Hotel associations and industry executives say that in the absence of government support in the form of an extension of the moratorium that ends in August, at least a third of the hotels might close down forever.

“It’s a grim situation,” said K B Kachru, vice president, Hotel Association of India (HAI) pointing out that a lack of consistent and uniform policy has been one of the biggest huddles in the smooth operations

Topics : ITC Hotels hotels

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