FATE OF HOTEL INDUSTRY @ TODAY

 

IPOH – MAY 23: The enhanced movement control order (EMCO) has swept out 90% businesses and hotels are not spared, here.

Take a look at the hotel website, most of them have posted a Notice of Temporary Hotel Closure from May 18 until June 7, 2021.

The reason is that hotel is not listed as “essential services” in the latest EMCO list released from the Facebook page of the State National Security Council as updated on May 20.

 

NOTICE OF TEMPORARY CLOSURE

 

Hotel industry is one of the most hit by the current pandemic be it MCO1, 2, 3 and EMCO as interstate and inter-district are either forbidden (not allowed) or reduced (even if allowed).

As of April 2020, a number of hotel in Ipoh faced closure either permanently or temporary due to financial difficulties faced upon the implementation of MCO.

The affected hotels on permanent closure were Syeun Hotel and Ritz Garden.

Some hotels decided to close their businesses temporarily as a measure to help stop the spread of Covid-19 infection.

 

IMPIANA HOTEL IPOH

 

The Malaysian Association of Hotels president Datuk N. Subramanian said  the hotel and tourism industry would require more assistance from the government in order to survive the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic, otherwise, hotels will see further closure with no other option.

“As long as travel restrictions are in place and both domestic and international borders are closed, the hotel industry will not survive, whether total lockdown or not.

 

MU HOTEL IPOH

 

“Since March 18, the industry has lost over 80% of its business despite there is a flow of domestic tourism from June until September, last year.

He added that the hotel industry recorded a loss of over RM6.53 million in 2020, and an estimated loss of RM300 million for every two weeks of the MCO.

“The lost of revenue for the hotel industry in 2021 until today, is about RM5 billion, making it worse than last year,” he said today.

 

CITIDEL HOTEL IPOH