Industry body CII has attempted intervention and assistance from the government to assure the recovery of the tourism industry, which is truly affected due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The CII has urged all key people to work for solving the crisis with the government.
“With the new guidelines issued under Unlock 3.0 by the Government of India, we would be extremely grateful if economic activities and business are allowed to operate as permissible under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) guidelines.”
The tourism ministry has requested to advise all the state government for allowing hotels to operate as per MHA standards.
Also, the request to the services has exported the scheme with incentives with the recommendation of the tax collected from the sources
The other steps such as increasing domestic tourism. The CII has recommended the common protocol for quarantine within the state government and unlimited inter-state travel and building the important metro cities a major hub for tourism.
The government has announced to make the hotels whose expenditure has above 25 crores suspending land declared as an infrastructure. The letter also seeks creation of an empowered National Tourism Board including private sector engagement and experts on the council, and formulation of the inter-ministerial and inter-state taskforce for solving the intermediate concern.
Some other steps included by the Government are that it is important for the traveller to test with RT-PCR tests within 48hours. It should be done prior to the departure and medical test of passengers on coming for domestic travellers.
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“Your kind support will go a long way to a gradual start of business activity and will act as a catalyst to economic recovery and a lifeline to the employees who are most affected by this pandemic,”