Another peak tourist season. Another threat of a hotel strike. Hotel unions and owners are on warpath again as talks failed. Unions will go on strike 14 March unless owners meet the demand for a 10 percent service charge. Bishnu Rimal, general secretary of one union, GEFONT, says three is no hope of compromise. The only thing unions and hotels agree about is that government mediation is a failure. The deputy prime minister tried to get the tourism minister to act, and he did not. The prime minister's office entered the fray and asked Foreign Minister Chakra Bastola to step in. But Bastola was out conferencing in Burma, he is now in China with the king, and then perhaps he's off to Paris with the PM. So, who's going to save the tourism industry?