Uttarakhand Tourism launches homestays booking portal
Synopsis
Uttarakhand Tourism's www.uttarastays.com allows free homestay bookings without fees or revenue sharing. Small homestay owners can register and get real-time feedback. Supported by government, the Deendayal Upadhyay Homestay Scheme provides subsidies and training. CEO Sachin Kurve aims to connect 5,000 homestays with wellness centres offering Yoga, naturopathy, and ayurvedic massages, ensuring seamless booking.
The homestay owners can integrate their homestays on the platform by providing information about the homestay and signing an agreement for the same. The homestay owners will not be required to pay
The tourism development board said the portal shall provide authentic information about homestays to the general public and provide a 'seamless mechanism' to book the homestays online.
It stated that the users can also rate the homestays on the platform through which the homestays will get real time feedback on their services and prompt them to improve the services.
Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board (UTDB) said the initiative is an effort to provide an online medium for the small homestay owners for bookings.
provided in various skills and services to enhance their customer service skills.
Sachin Kurve, CEO, UTDB mentioned that this three pronged strategy
involving government support through subsidy in creating Homestay infrastructure, providing skill
base training to Homestay owners and providing marketing support through online portal shall prove to
be a milestone in establishing a robust Homestay network in the state.
The future plan involves the linking of homestays with wellness centres in respective areas so that the tourists can avail benefits ofserv ices such as Yoga, naturopathy and ayurvedic massages.
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