Ahmedabad: Hotels in Gujarat are facing a sharp fall in occupancy rates as people are avoiding travel to the state following Saturday's serial blasts that claimed at least 50 lives.
Vice-president of Hotel and Restaurant Association of Gujarat, N.K. Somani said, "The occupancy rate has fallen substantially since many people have cancelled or postponed their visits to Ahmedabad."
Twenty-one blasts ripped through Ahmedabad on Saturday, killing at least 50 people and injuring over 200.
On the days following the terror strike, 22 bombs were found in Surat, which is about 200 km from Ahmedabad.
According to the president of Ahmedabad-Mehsana Hotel Association, Hyderbhai, there has been a drop of about 30 per cent in the number of customers going to highway hotels for food.
Secretary of All Gujarat Transporters Association, Mukesh Dave said that since the blasts, the number of trucks coming to Gujarat has fallen by about 15 per cent.
He said normally about 8,000 trucks from and to Mumbai pass through the check point at Bilad which is about 300 km from Ahmedabad every day.
However, in the last four days, there has been almost about 2,000 trucks fewer every day.
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