Thursday, October 31, 2019

Tourist standard hotels to offer discounts

Hotel Association Nepal (HAN) has announced a discount scheme on room tariff and food bills at its member hotels, resorts and guesthouses to foreigners visiting Nepal next year.
Effective from January – throughout the Visit Nepal Year 2020 to support the national campaign – all member hotels of HAN will offer 30 per cent discount on room tariff and 15 per cent off on food bills to foreigner visitors till the end of December next year, confirmed HAN.
“Almost 2,300 small to five-star hotels of the country are affiliated with HAN,” it claimed, adding that HAN is supporting the government through all means to make the tourism campaign successful. ”Discount on room and food tariff rate is a direct support of HAN to the campaign.”
HAN is also promoting the tourism and Nepali cuisines in different countries targeting the tourism campaign Visit Nepal Year 2020. The government has set a target of bringing in 2 million foreign visitors to the country in 2020.
Established in 1966 with eight hotels as its members, HAN that has chapters in Dhankuta, Biratnagar, Pokhara, Sauraha, Biratnagar, Dhulikhel, and Bhaktapur, is also preparing to introduce other events and packages for visiting foreign tourists in 2020.
Earlier, the Home Stay Association of Nepal (HOSAN) has also announced discount packages for tourists on homestay services throughout 2020. “All member homestays – both private and community-based – will offer 20 per cent discount on their service throughout 2020 targeting the Visit Nepal 2020 campaign,” it said, adding that around 1,006 homestays are members to HOSAN. “Of the total number of homestay facilities, some 628 are community-based homestay services while 378 are private homestay services.”
After two similar mega tourism campaigns in 1998 and 2011, the Visit Nepal Year 2020 (VNY2020) campaign is being hosted with a more ambitious target to bring in two million tourists annually by 2020.

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