Targeting the upcoming Nepal Tourism Year 2011 (NTY 2011) national campaign, over a half-dozen tourist standard hotels are launching in Sauraha. Satanchuli Wildlife View Resort and Alka Resort Camp have started operation while Jungle World Resort, Monalisa Jungle Resort, Nature Heritage Resort and Jungle Safari Lodge are under construction.With the coming of new hotels, the old ones have started upgrading their capacity and standards to meet the required standards and facilities of tourists.
Hari Bhakta Ghimire, president of the Hotel Association Nepal, regional chapter, said that the hotels under construction would be online within two years.
Almost all the new hotels have been designed like indigenous Tharu community houses," Ghimire said. With the mounting competition, about 30 percent of the hotels have added new rooms. There are 67 hotels in Sauraha. Shankar Sainju, a local entrepreneur, said that there was a huge investment in the hotel sector these days.
This year, hotels have increased their accommodation capacity to 1,700 beds from 1,400 previously.