HOTELIERS in Bahrain, “battered and bruised” by Covid-19, have issued an SOS to save the sector, claiming that failure to do so could see many properties shutting down permanently.
Hotels and restaurants continue to be the largest segment of the hospitality industry that has been badly hit by the cornonavirus pandemic, with the tourism sector registering a loss in revenue of BD265 million in the first quarter of the year compared with the same period last year .