Nagarkot's hotels classified

Nagarkot, July 21 :  Hotels being operated in popular tourism destination Nagarkot has been classified.    

The Food Technology and Quality Control Division Office Dhulikhel has classified standards of the hotels and also provided them with logos accordingly.  

  
Among 30 hotels physically inspected, two hotels were classified as 'outstanding' and provided with a 'green' sticker.    

Likewise, only one hotel classified as the 'best' was also given a green sticker. Four hotels categorized as 'moderate' were provided with green stickers while 23 hotels classified as 'satisfactory' were tagged yellow.    

Food Inspector Atis Ghimire informed that classification was made based on the applications received as per the Hotel, Restaurant Standardization Directive, 2074, Annex 1.   

 
A team comprising office representatives, local elected representatives, hotel entrepreneurs, and office-bearers of Nagarkot Naldum Tourism Development Committee carried out monitoring of hotels in Nagarkot based on 50 indicators of sanitation and hygiene. 

  
On the occasion, hotel entrepreneurs had made a commitment to maintaining food hygiene. He said progress monitoring would be made after six months and a level would be reduced if the reforms were not found as committed in the progress monitoring. (RSS)