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In spite of reopening, AP tourism witnessed lukewarm response with 35 percent occupancy rate

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

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The AP Tourism Development Corporation hotels and resorts in Visakhapatnam district that restarted their operations after going through a long-drawn-out lockdown due to COVID-19, have succeeded in registering barely 35% occupancy on an average. It’s almost same with private hotels.

Normally, the facilities remain completely booked two to three months before the vacation of Dasara.


To quote Tourism divisional manager T.G. Prasad Reddy, “The patronage is picking up slowly but lack of regular trains and limited flights has made a huge dent in tourist arrivals, particularly Bengali tourists, who come in large groups during Dasara. We do not see much improvement this season but hope to attract more tourists by December-end.”


“Only business visitors who have no escape from travel are coming but they too are preferring to go back as soon as possible, local sight-seeing is no longer on their priority list,” says Muralikrishna, a tour operator.


On the other hand, theatres displaying moves did not reopen even after receiving the permission to screen films from October 15th. The exhibitors in Andhra Pradesh while attending a meeting in Vijayawada, made up their mind not to reopen cinemas till the AP government gives a solid declaration on their part in terms of relaxing power tariff and few other concessions in view of the crisis, which permits them to use only 50% of the seats. However, later a few theatres have opened.

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