Biman faces setback in commercial expansion
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the national airliner, is experiencing a setback to expand its commercial activities in off-track areas, especially in hotel business, as it went for the re-tender to construct a 4-star hotel in the city, reports UNB.
Biman's move to build various commercially viable structures on its own lands across the country for enhancing its revenue earnings, accommodation of layover passengers and minimising operational costs failed to get proper response from concerned quarters, according to Biman sources.
Early this year, Biman Bangladesh authority decided to construct a 4-star hotel in the city's Farmgate area, where the Biman press, medical centre and poultry-display centre are situated. The total land area of the hotel will be 1.33 acres.
In this connection, they also floated a tender in June to get expression of interest (EOI) from the investors, but it failed to attract the investors.
"We've got only two responses from our first tender to construct the 4-star hotel, and both the responses were not up to the mark. That's why we went for re-tender," Biman Bangladesh Airlines director (planning) Nafees Ahmed Imtiazuddin said.
The Biman sources said that the eligibility for participating in the EOI requires that the applicants have experience of running reputed hotel chains/operators, or local/foreign firms in association/joint-venture with reputed hotel chains/operators.
Biman's move to build various commercially viable structures on its own lands across the country for enhancing its revenue earnings, accommodation of layover passengers and minimising operational costs failed to get proper response from concerned quarters, according to Biman sources.
Early this year, Biman Bangladesh authority decided to construct a 4-star hotel in the city's Farmgate area, where the Biman press, medical centre and poultry-display centre are situated. The total land area of the hotel will be 1.33 acres.
In this connection, they also floated a tender in June to get expression of interest (EOI) from the investors, but it failed to attract the investors.
"We've got only two responses from our first tender to construct the 4-star hotel, and both the responses were not up to the mark. That's why we went for re-tender," Biman Bangladesh Airlines director (planning) Nafees Ahmed Imtiazuddin said.
The Biman sources said that the eligibility for participating in the EOI requires that the applicants have experience of running reputed hotel chains/operators, or local/foreign firms in association/joint-venture with reputed hotel chains/operators.