Bhubaneswar: The country’s tourism industry, which on lethargic since last year due to Covid’s pandemic, has begun to see the resurrection with most hotels witnessing impressive visitors.
Decreasing covid infection, coupled with limiting easing, has brought tourists to their favorite destinations.
Most hotels in Puri and Bhubaneswar, which are used to witness about 20% to 30% occupancy in September, are usually considered the tourist season of Lean, now seeing guest housing rises to 60%.
“Tourism has revived faster than expected.
The corporate business has also increased.
At Swosti hotels in Chilika, weekend residence is almost 100% and on other days 60%.
The situation is the same in Bhubaneswar.
We have been flooded with letters and questions from Tourists, who want to visit the state in the next few days, “JK Mohanty, Chair of the Association of Hotels and Restaurants Odisha (Hrao), said.
“The hotel in Puri is fully occupied.
We have never witnessed 60% occupancy at the hotel in September.
This is a positive sign for the staggering tourism industry.
Depressed after living in the room during locking, people have started traveling to the castle from various districts The country and neighbor of West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand wholeheartedly, “said Debasis Kumar, Vice President of the Hotel Puri Association, said.
He added that the footsteps of tourists in Puri have increased after the reopening of Jagannath’s temple for all on August 23.
“We have asked hospitality and restaurant owners to strictly follow the Covid safety protocol and sensitive to their guests for the appropriate behavior.
Cleanliness and cleanliness must be maintained well in all such places,” said a tourism official.
The arrival of foreign tourists to Odisha has fallen more than 99% and domestic tourists of 84% at 2020-21.
The whole falls in the arrival of tourists (domestic and shared foreigners) reached 84.29% in the last fiscal compared to 2019-20.
Overall 652 foreign tourists visited the state in 2020-21 by opposing 1,00,567 in 2019-20.
While 1,50,35,593 domestic visitors came to Odisha in 2019-20, their footsteps of Nosur were only 23,76,523 the last fiscal.
Overall, only 23.77,175 tourists (both domestically and foreigners) visited the country in 2020-21 compared to 1,51,36,160 visitors in 2019-20, said a report.
The country’s buzzing tourism industry has witnessed slides in fate since 2019, Cyclone Fani’s year hit Puri and Bhubaneswar.