Investors from Rupandehi have said that there is always a shortage of workers due to the low number of long-term employees in hotels and restaurants. Many have been working only as training before going to foreign employment.

Investors have said that their investment is being wasted when the employees who are selected after filling the application for employment choose the option within a few days of learning the job.

Rupak Gautam, Managing Director of Royal Tiger Recreation Pvt. Ltd. of Ruppandehi, said that after investing and learning skills, they are killed when they leave their jobs. "Nowadays, the hospitality sector has become a training center for people who are going to work abroad," he said.

He informed that workers are paid up to 200,000 from the minimum wage imposed by the government. Royal Tiger Recreation Pvt Ltd has 600 employees including security guard, housekeeping, kitchen, driver and bouncer. "Now we have to look for employees every week," he said. At first the work is taught. Tika Baral, owner of Lumbini Buddha Garden Resort, said that by providing salary, accommodation, food and clothing facilities, an investment of one to one and a half lakh rupees will be made on one person. "During the learning process, many times dishes are broken, food is lost," he said.

He said that there are not even half a dozen workers in his hotel from the beginning. According to Baral, students who come for study from various places in the plains and hills are looking for work. He said that even those who have studied hotel management and are employed in the hospitality sector do not last long. "The heart of the hospitality sector is skilled workers," he said, "If there are no workers to serve, the business of hotels and restaurants will not be sustainable." Skilled employees have great opportunities, but the problem is that they don't last long. "Now the hotel owner has to run the hospitality college," said Rajesh Mahotra, Deputy Secretary General of the Hoteliers' Federation of Nepal, "Various trainings are being conducted by organizations in the tourism sector and the government, and they also come to work after receiving training." However, due to the salary scale and other reasons, there is a problem that the employees do not stay for long.

Mahotra said that in the 10 years of operation of Hotel Sunstar, 90 percent of the employees have left their jobs. He says that even 10 percent of the starting staff are still struggling to maintain. "We started to take the situation of non-continuance of workers as a matter of course," he said. He says that the investment is being wasted as the

work is abandoned after some time. "Nowadays, young people who have studied come to work," he said. In the current situation, they go out looking for opportunities because the salary is too much to cover their household expenses.'

Bhairahwa in Roopandehi and around Tare Hotel along with casinos are operating. Casinos are now attracting skilled workers from hotels and restaurants. A single casino has anywhere from two hundred to one thousand employees. Investors say that there is a shortage of manpower in the hotel because they pay more.

According to Chandra Prakash Shrestha, President of Siddharth Hotel Association, there are more than 150 hotels in Bhairahawa from Belhia to Lumbini and North Manglapur. More than 10,000 employees are working in those hotels alone.  Chairman Shrestha said that around 50,000 people are employed in hotels and restaurants across the district. "Due to the trend of going abroad to earn more, it is becoming difficult to sustain workers," he said.