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World: Weddings Rush, Tariffs In Peak Season May Thin Out Foreign Tourists’ Inflow | Jaipur News
Jaipur: The rush of weddings during the peak tourist season has made destinations in Rajasthan expensive with hotels raising the tariffs by 20-40%.
It’s not just the hotels, the transport services providers are also falling short of fleet capacity to meet the demands of the tourists, said tour operators on the eve of World Tourism Day to be celebrated on September 27.
Sanjay Kaushik, former secretary of Rajasthan Association of Tour Operators (RATO), said, “The hotels and transport are almost sold out between December 20 and January 5 due to peak season. There are neither rooms nor taxis are available for inbound (foreign) or domestic tourists.”
Kaushik said even if there is some availability, the room and camps tariffs are exorbitantly costly. “The tour operators are forced to cough up at least 20-40% more which is not good for tourism,” added Kaushik.
Before the pandemic, the inbound segment used to be the mainstay for the tourism and hospitality industry. While domestic tourism has witnessed robust growth after Covid, the importance of inbound cannot be ignored.
Mahavir Sharma, president of Federation of Rajasthan Event Managers (Forem), said, “For hotels, the weddings vertical has grown exponentially. But industry also needs to take care of the tourists, especially the overseas visitors. The hotels should set aside 20-30% of their room inventory for tourists and the tariffs hikes should be reasonable.”
The unavailability of rooms at reasonable rates during the season time runs the risk of losing foreign tourists as they will explore alternative destinations.
Nitin Mathur, member of RATO, said, “For foreign tourists, the world is open. If they do not rooms, it might happen that some of them would never travel to India again. We should do all w can to retain their interest in the state.”
The brainstorming session was also participated by Neeraj Srivastava, Kumar Vikalp, Gunjan Singhal, Govind Agarwal, and Jitendra Dave. During the discussion issues of chaotic traffic situation, poor facilities in monuments like Amer fort and developing infrastructure to improve tourists’ experience were raised.
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It’s not just the hotels, the transport services providers are also falling short of fleet capacity to meet the demands of the tourists, said tour operators on the eve of World Tourism Day to be celebrated on September 27.
Sanjay Kaushik, former secretary of Rajasthan Association of Tour Operators (RATO), said, “The hotels and transport are almost sold out between December 20 and January 5 due to peak season. There are neither rooms nor taxis are available for inbound (foreign) or domestic tourists.”
Kaushik said even if there is some availability, the room and camps tariffs are exorbitantly costly. “The tour operators are forced to cough up at least 20-40% more which is not good for tourism,” added Kaushik.
Before the pandemic, the inbound segment used to be the mainstay for the tourism and hospitality industry. While domestic tourism has witnessed robust growth after Covid, the importance of inbound cannot be ignored.
Mahavir Sharma, president of Federation of Rajasthan Event Managers (Forem), said, “For hotels, the weddings vertical has grown exponentially. But industry also needs to take care of the tourists, especially the overseas visitors. The hotels should set aside 20-30% of their room inventory for tourists and the tariffs hikes should be reasonable.”
The unavailability of rooms at reasonable rates during the season time runs the risk of losing foreign tourists as they will explore alternative destinations.
Nitin Mathur, member of RATO, said, “For foreign tourists, the world is open. If they do not rooms, it might happen that some of them would never travel to India again. We should do all w can to retain their interest in the state.”
The brainstorming session was also participated by Neeraj Srivastava, Kumar Vikalp, Gunjan Singhal, Govind Agarwal, and Jitendra Dave. During the discussion issues of chaotic traffic situation, poor facilities in monuments like Amer fort and developing infrastructure to improve tourists’ experience were raised.
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