{"id":36941,"date":"2018-02-09T08:38:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T08:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rubavu-district-closes-27-sub-standard-lodges\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T08:38:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T08:38:23","slug":"rubavu-district-closes-27-sub-standard-lodges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rubavu-district-closes-27-sub-standard-lodges\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubavu District closes 27 sub-standard lodges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The affected lodges received letters instructing their closure on 18th January from Rubavu Sector local leaders requesting them to close but did not do so. The district instructed them further to close on Tuesday this week. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a meeting with lodge services providers on Thursday, Rubavu District Mayor, Gilbert Habyarimana said that the decision was necessary for them to re-evaluate their services. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe problem is that people have turned residential houses into lodges and others dub them hotels. The hygiene of houses which receive many people is quite different from that of a five-people family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the meeting some lodges were allowed to continue operation but given one month to address  hygiene issues.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cMonitoring exercise will continue as people should embrace to operate while meeting all required standards. You should provide commendable services to both local and foreign visitors  coming to seek hospitality services from you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Affected lodge owners did not want to talk to the media.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23976 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/amwe_usanga_afatanye_n_ingo_z_abaturage_2_-026ab.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 27 lodges from Rubavu Sector of Rubavu District have been closed following identifying of poor hygiene conditions and operating without operational documents allowing them to provide hospitality services. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36941"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36941"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}