Noting that the eviction of hotels from the city's residential areas will adversely affect the country's tourism business as well economy, hotel business leaders the authorities concerned to refrain from dismantling those, reports UNB.
"Drives have already started in many places to evict hotels from residential areas. It should be stopped immediately," director of The Westin Dhaka (Room and Operation) Shakawath Hossain told a press conference in the city on Sunday.
The call came amid an eviction drive that began in the city's Dhanmondi area on Sunday morning as the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) has started removing commercial establishments from residential areas.
A mobile court of Rajuk led by executive magistrate Md Nasir Uddin started the drive around 10.45am. It evicted several commercial buildings in the residential area, said Rajuk sources.
At the press conference at Amari Dhaka Hotel the Bangladesh International Hotel Association (BIHA) made clear their stance on the government's move to evict hotels from the residential areas, following the recent terror attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery at Gulshan.
BIHA President HM Hakim Ali said the government took various security measures after the terror attack on the Spanish restaurant.
Referring to the recent terrorist attack carried out in France, he said such problems remain everywhere across the world right now. "So, hotels should not be removed from residential areas on security grounds." [Read More]

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Source: The Financial Express