Chennai: After months of poor business due to a pandemic, hospitality and the retail sector in the city was influenced by recent rain.
Foot cracks in restaurants and retail stores that have been picked up during the festival season, down significantly, while occupancy rates at the hotel in Chennai and at Mamallapuram’s minimum tourist hotspot.
The business company in the commercial center of a busy Pondy Bazaar until the weekend Diwali has not returned from the impact of rain.
A restaurant with empty seats has trimmed the menu because of bad footsteps for the past four days.
On Saturday, despite the full parking throughout the ‘plaza pedestrian’, the weekend crowd lost.
The situation is similar in the wholesale textile market and retail WasherMenpet.
Hotels in the city and Mamallapuram recorded several cancellations of reservations due to heavy rains and several conferences scheduled at five-star facilities postponed this week.
For example, the TTDC coastal resort complex in Mamallapuram only has 30% to 40% of confirmed orders, which touched 95% in the last three months.
G Venkat, an employee at an outlet ornament at Pondy Bazaar said business and walk-in has dipped.
“Our business was picked up as long as Ayudha Puja and peaked during Diwali, but it fell flat because of the rain.
When stores reopen the pose-covid lock, there are product shortages, while customers are available.
Now, the product is in a lot, but no taker.,” he says.
A V S Marimuthu, a member of the high-level committee of the Washermenpet cloth merchant association said the market recorded an average sale of 100 crore every day.
“Diwali looked at a fast business.
However, the rain costs of our business, which is almost not 10% of normal trade in our market,” he said, adding that traders expect a resurrection from Monday.