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Mumbai: Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam slams MVA for ruining business of restaurants, hotels by imposing night curfew
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Mumbai: Senior Congress leader and former Member of Parliament (MP) Sanjay Nirupam on Thursday participated in a silent protest held by restaurant and hotel owners at Oshiwara.
Nirupam lambasted the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government for ruining the business of small-time traders including hotels and restaurants by imposing night curfew amid rising positive cases of Covid-19. The hotels and restaurants make business in night hours and by imposing curfew their business has been largely affected. Besides, the government instead of threatening to impose second lockdown should come up with fresh guidelines regarding how the situation can be controlled. Small-time are traders yet to recoup from the losses made in the previous lockdown and creating a fearful atmosphere again will further deteriorate the city s ec
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India’s competition regulator has directed the country’s largest online travel firm
MakeMyTrip to relist the properties of two budget hotel chains, which it stopped listing in 2018 after signing an agreement with their rival Oyo. The court said clamping down on anti-competitive behaviour was especially important in “winner takes all” platform markets.
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As travel and eating out resume in post-pandemic India, the love-hate relationship between hotels and restaurant owners and online aggregators of their services has come to the fore yet again.
On Feb. 26, the Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India (FHRAI) initiated the #GoDirect, #BookDirect, and #OrderDirect campaigns on social media to urge patrons to connect with businesses directly instead of going through popular travel portals such as MakeMyTrip and Yatra, and food delivery apps such as Swiggy and Zomato. The association, which represents 55,000 hotels and 500,000 restaurants across the country, believes that intermediaries are biting into the revenues of their members, and making it hard for them to survive amid a tough business environment.
Budget 2021: Lack of direct relief hurts pandemic-hit tourism sector
“While infra measures may boost tourism over long term, the opportunity for immediate support is lost,” said Nakul Anand, Chairman, FAITH.
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NEW DELHI: In the long run, the odds might even out, but the tourism sector was banking on Finance Minister to make immediate big-ticket announcements to infuse energy into the business-starved sector. However, the absence of any direct relief came as a bitter disappointment.
“While infra measures may boost tourism over long term, the opportunity for immediate support is lost,” said Nakul Anand, Chairman, FAITH.