With no way to ascertain the actual tariff structure in these hotels, which comprise nearly 70 per cent of the total room capacity in Agra, the tourists seek the UP tourism department's help only to find that the tourism department does not have any control over room tariffs in hotels.
Worried with the bad publicity earned by the budget-class hotels, the Agra Hotel & Restaurants Association (AHRA), a local organisation of budget-class hotels, has decided to take the initiative of standardising the room tariffs in accordance with the facilities offered by these hotels.
In a proposal sent to the state's tourism department, the association has proposed that the department conduct a survey of all registered 196 member and rank them.on various points like tariffs, services, rooms, facilities, etc. giving them