The Chandigarh Administration has finalised 16 households under the recently launched the Bed and Breakfast scheme. These households have been classified under two categories — gold and silver — depending upon the facilities being extended to the visitors by these households.

A Sector 22-based Arora family became the first city family to receive a family of Ornoy from Israel on Tuesday night.

The Chandigarh Tourism Department has also done extensive publicity for these households under the scheme and even put up the relevant information pertaining to such households on the Tourist Information Centres, ISBT-17; Tourist Information Centre, Plaza, Railway Station, Chandigarh Airport and the Tourism Department in Sector 9.

Be it the posh Sector 2, Sector 9 or places like Manimajra, Sector 30-A, Sector 19-A, 21-A, 34-D or Sector 43-B, families from almost all sectors of the city have come forward and expressed willingness to be included as service providers to foreign tourists under the scheme.

The Tourism department has constituted a committee of officers, who respond to the applications submitted under the scheme by residents, discuss it and after paying a visit to the household and meeting members of the family, approve to include the same under the Bed and Breakfast scheme.

“It becomes our responsibility to check and see if the conditions and environment offered at a particular household suits the requirements of a tourist. We need to see if the facilities being offered to a tourist at a particular household matches the requisite standards. Only after reaching a satisfaction level, we approve of a household to be included under the scheme,” said a senior UT official.

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