Doha's hotels suffer in Eid holiday due to Arab sanctions


  • World
  • Monday, 26 Jun 2017

FILE PHOTO: People walk past the Qatar Airways office in Manama, Bahrain, June 8, 2017. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed/File Photo

DOHA (Reuters) - A boycott imposed by four Arab nations that accuse Qatar of supporting terrorism is squeezing the tourism sector and Doha's hotels which would normally be full in the Eid al-Fitr holiday have seen steep falls in their occupancy rates.

A Reuters survey of five major hotels found average occupancy was around 57 percent at the start of the Eid festival on Sunday which marks the end of the Ramadan fasting month when friends and families eat and pray together and take holidays.

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