The fortnight-long agitation, which reached a flashpoint with the bandh call on Tuesday, gave a serious jolt to Tirupati’s tourism industry, what with the inflow plummeting to rock-bottom. Most hotels are concentrated around the APSRTC central bus station and railway station areas, forming the city’s core area, which has now turned deserted. Several hotels failed to register even a third of the booking they used to get in normal days as per a report in the Hindu.
The last weekend, tagged with Ramzan holiday, turned out to be a silver-lining, when the inflow was relatively steady. “The ‘muhurthams’ witnessed during the last three days also helped us get business to some extent”, explained A.Ravishankar Reddy, general manager of Hotel Bliss.
Generally, the passenger footfall is comparatively high in Tirupati during the months of August and December, as several NRIs plan a visit home. It is during these months that they plan a visit to Tirumala. August also coincides with the auspicious ‘Sravana Masam’ of Hindu calendar and is considered a good time for a pilgrimage. However, the turnout was abysmally low this fortnight. “We suffered a 75 per cent fall in occupancy.
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