Hotel Association of India launches TS Chapter

HAI submits memorandum to KTR to accord industry status to hospitality sector

Hyderabad: Following the launch of its State chapters in Karnataka and Punjab, the Hotel Association of India (HAI), the apex body of hotels across India has made inroads into the State and launched its Telangana State Chapter with an aim to provide a unified voice to the hospitality sector and aid in the resurgence and sustenance of the industry following the pandemic.

The Association has nominated senior industry leaders including Ian Dubier, area director, Hyderabad, and GM, Taj Krishna, Hyderabad, Reginald Corbett, AGM, Lemon Tree Hotel, Hyderabad, Anirban Simlai, GM, The Park, Hyderabad, Dhiraj Mehta, GM, Trident Hyderabad and Sandeep Joshi, GM, Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel, Hyderabad to drive the Chapter in the state.

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The chapter will be primarily focused on taking up relevant issues and challenges facing the industry with the Telangana government as well as other important stakeholders within the region by ensuring greater collaboration, building partnerships, and creating an inclusive environment for the benefit of the local economy through programmes that protect and promote the interests of small, medium operators and the larger employee base of the hotel industry.

Member of HAI’s Telangana State Committee Ian Dubier met KT Rama Rao, the Minister of Industries, IT & Communication, Municipal Administration and Urban Development (Telangana) and submitted a memorandum of industry demands including the need to establish a State Tourism Development Board while requesting to accord industry status to the hospitality sector.

The Association believes that granting industry status to the sector will enable hotels across the State to avail benefits towards power tariff at an industrial rate, lower property tax, investment subsidies & tax holidays, refinancing of existing debts, hassle-free loans at subsidised interest rates, simplified approval process for hotel projects and hotel operations and other benefits.

The Minister has shown great empathy towards the sector as the negative impact of the pandemic on the hospitality and tourism businesses is evident in the State. He has also assured full support and further assistance to bring about necessary changes for the revival of the sector in Telangana, Dubier added.

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