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Hotel Bookings Cancelled Due To Shutdown By CPN-Maoist
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 14, 2013: Hotel Association Nepal (HAN) said that the booking cancellation reached the peak due to the 10-day shutdown called by the 33-paty alliance headed by the CPN-Maoist, and the setting off bombs, and setting fire on vehicles in Nepal, according to the news on the ‘gorkhapatraonline.com.’
President of HAN Shyam Sundar Lal Kakshapati said that the booking cancellation had been more than 50 percent until date due to the insecurity caused by the shutdown in the country. “Many tourists have already cancelled their bookings and trips to Nepal. Similarly, some embassies have directed their people to shorten, cancel or avoid their visit to Nepal before the Constituent Assembly (CA) election of November 19,” he said.
Speaking to the reporter of ‘The Rising Nepal,’ Executive Director of HAN Madhav Om Shrestha said that the shutdown had a negative impact on the booming tourism industry in the country. He said that the county’s tourism industry would see remarkable down fall this year.
“The tourist arrivals will go significantly down this year,” he said adding, “The arrivals had gone down by about 9 per cent in 2012 compared to the data for the same period of the Nepal Tourism Year of 2011 while it will drop by 30-40 per cent this year.”
“The bandh will not only hit the business and business people. It will impact on revenue of the government, employment generation and over all development process of the country,” he said.
