The tourism Council of Bhutan has invited the proposals from across the nation to built the high end hotels in different parts of the country. So far, the Council has received about five dozen proposals.
The council felt the need to establish high-end hotels especially in the eastern and southern parts of the country a year ago. So, it actually invited the proposals for the establishment of 3-star or above hotels on December of last year.
According to Tashi Tenzin, infrastructure development officer with the services division, an international hotel, tourism and leisure consultant is also hired for technical support to shortlist and select the proposals after visiting the sites.
The new project can be partnered with the foreign investors. However, Mr. Tashi Tenzin seemed unsure on the selected proposals getting foreign investor.
Thirty three out of fifty nine proposals came from the western region, fifteen from central region, six from the east and five from the south. Eleven from the west and four from the central are selected as feasible for investment.
Along with the establishment of new end-hotels, the interested owners of the existing ones have been told to upgrade those into above three stars and operate them by the end of 2012.
