Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 24: Office bearers of All Jammu Hotels and Lodges Association here today organized a meeting chaired by Inderjeet Khajuria.
Speakers in the meeting expressed serious concern over poor conditions of those connected with tourism sector and claimed that they were passing through the worst phase of life due to after-effect of COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking in the meeting Khajuria said that tourism sector has been pushed to hardships rather than any relief from the Government and condition of stakeholders has turned from bad to worse because of poor business activity.
Pawan Gupta, Association president said that condition of smokeless hotel industry, already on the ventilators due to extension of train service from Jammu to Katra, has worsened due to COVID-19 pandemic and number of hoteliers have either closed their units or changed their activity.
He said that at this critical juncture budget hotels are unable to sustain huge taxes and government departmental fees but the government is going to impose Property Tax.
The Association appealed to the government to come to their rescue and exempt hotel industry particularly budget hotels from Property Tax.
M.L Sharma, Anil Khajuria, Pritam Sharma, H.S Manhas, Baldev Raj, Sunil Suri, Swarn Singh, Sankul Gupta, Manpreet Singh, Nishant Gupta and Varun Gupta were also present in the meeting.
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