Hotel Association of India (HAI) has highlighted that its member Hotels have worked alongside the government in the fight against the pandemic by preparing millions of food packets for frontline Covid workers & migrants, offering safe & hygienic accommodation not only to doctors and sanitary workers but also to stranded Indians repatriated under the ‘Vande Bharat’ initiative.
“We appeal to the Government of India to make the online application process available to hotels. These benefits are offered to hoteliers as a fixed percentage of their annual net foreign
exchange earnings. The incentive enables hotels to subside input costs of imports and facilitates Indian hospitality to match global standards of hotels that a foreign tourist is accustomed to. Given the hardship that hotels are going through since March, this delay may prove to be a crippling injury to an industry that is struggling with a force majeure scenario. The request to allow the hotels to avail the SEIS benefits that have already accrued to them for the year 2019-
20 is fair and legitimate and should be acceded to. It is not a concession, said Madan Prasad Bezbaruah, Secretary-General, Hotel Association of India (HAI)
