Hotels in Lumbini providing various offers to rev up business

Bhairahawa: The hotels in the Lumbini area have announced various offers in their services to customers to rev up their business hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The hotels here have offered discounts on food and accommodation targeting domestic tourists, the Lumbini Hotel Association (LHA) stated. The Association believes that this offer will help prop up the tourism business weakened by the pandemic. It is expected to attract visitors to Lumbini.

LHA has made arrangements for providing a 25 per cent discount on hotel stay and a 10 per cent discount on food, LHA President Mithun Shrestha said. “This offer has been announced targeting tourists visiting Lumbini,” he said.

It is said the number of tourists has started to increase gradually in Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha, with the lifting of the restrictions put in place to contain the risk of COVID-19.

Along with the hotels in the Lumbini area, the hotels in neighbouring Bhairahawa city have also announced heavy discount offers, the Siddhartha Hotel Association (SHA) stated.

SHA president Chandra Prakash Shrestha said the hotels in the Bhairahawa area have provided 25 to 50 per cent special discounts on accommodation as well as on food based on the type of menu.