Kathmandu, May 25
Hoteliers have demanded that they should get at least Rs 3,000 for each person per day if their properties are used to quarantine Nepali migrants who are returning home due to the global Covid-19 crisis.
Quarantining a person by providing four meals a day and lodging facilities will cost Rs 3,000 to Rs 16,000 based on the hotel’s standard, according to the Hotel Association Nepal’s first vice-president Binayak Shah.
“These prices do not give us profit. We are not trying to be commercial,” Shah says, “The prices are fixed just to cover the operational cost.”
The association has also put forward a few additional preconditions to use hotels as quarantine facilities. The first of the conditions is that the guests should be certified with no coronavirus infection.
The organisation demands that they should be checked up daily; security and health workers should guard the hospitals; the occupants should not cause any loss to the hotel properties.
The demands come at a time when the government is reportedly preparing to repatriate Nepalis abroad. The association has recently submitted the demands to the Department of Tourism recently.
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