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Kathmandu,Friday January 28, 2000 Magh 14th, 2056.
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‘HAN
to be developed as research organization’
-By
a Post Reporter
KATHMANDU,
Jan 27 - Two days after being elected to the post of president of
Hotel Association Nepal (HAN), Narendra Bajracharya, pledged that he
would develop HAN as a research-based institution.
Talking
to The Kathmandu Post, he said, “I will make every possible effort
to make HAN a research-oriented organization”. Bajracharya is
with the hotel industry for more than two decades.
The
youngest president of HAN, Bajracharya has his own vision to advance
the association as a multifaceted organization that will help to
ameliorate HAN’s existing relations with international hotel
associations.
Bajracharya
said the association would further its programmes by organizing
various tourism promotion activities along with food festivals in
South Asian countries.
The
association is in dire need of enhancing its information and
communications system in order to facilitate the concerned sector
regarding the recent trends in the international tourism industry.
He
wants to create an ‘information bank’ within the association. He
said he would work towards setting up personal web site of HAN,
establish training centre for hotel employees, keep on raising issues
on garbage disposal, raising the issue of airport reform, Nepal
promotion activities abroad, among others.
The
detail action plan would be released soon, he said.
Bajracharya
alleged the government of not providing the facilities to the tourism
sector at a par with other industries. He asked for rebating
electricity tariff, extending grace period for VAT submission to
90 days and tax holiday on foreign currency, among others.
Bajracharya,
one of the promoters of hotel Vajra, is equally critical of the
government officials’ ad-hoc manner in supervising the hotels. He
said government employees supervise hotels as per their wish.
He
feels that Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) is marketing tourism in a
traditional manner.
He
demands with the government to stop issuing licences for hotels in
over-saturated areas like Chitwan, Kathmandu and Pokhara. He also
pointed out the need of classifying hotels.
Bajracharya
has served in the posts of Treasurer, Secretary, vice president and
executive member of the association.
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