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“On the other hand, our hotel is away from the sea beach so people think our hotel is safer,” he said.

Mohammad Nurul Azim, company secretary to the Penninsula, said the Chattogram-based hotel registered increased sales of foods owing to a demand for hygiene from the well-off and middle-class in the port city.

“Our overhead cost also declined. Our directors stopped receiving remuneration from July last year amid the pandemic. The need for casual staff also declined and we keep them under an on call basis,” he said.

“We also got business travelers from Dhaka and other parts,” he said.