KUCHING: Hotels in Sarawak have sustained their operations during Covid-19 pandemic by turning them into quarantine centres.
Most hotels in Kuching would have closed if not for the lifeline offered by the Sarawak government to operate as quarantine centres as visitor arrivals into Sarawak had dropped drastically, according to CBRE/WTW Research.
The number of visitor arrivals in Sarawak plunged by 86% to 160,266 in the first 11 months of 2021 from the same period in 2020 due to the ban on inter-state travel and movement restrictions.