visitors in dal lake in 2020, 2019, 2018 , 2017
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Shikaras lining a shore of Dal lake on a sunny day Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Waseem Andrabi / HT File )
Hoteliers and travel agents in the Kashmir Valley are hopeful of a profitable holiday season as the past four weeks have seen a surge in the tourist footfall.
Despite constant drop in numbers of tourists in last few years, April and first two weeks of May this year have been a silver lining for the stakeholders as the Valley got 53, 648 tourists in April and 31,888 tourists in first two weeks of May. Even the foreign tourist footfall has increased with 22, 358 foreigners visiting the Valley since January.
Kashmir tourism director Nisar Ahmad Wani said they had a good footfall compared to previous years despite, Lethpora attack and Lok Sabha polls.
Wani said the state government has launched various campaigns and road shows in several parts of the country to attract tourist. “The season seems promising since it has started picking up pace already.”
Tourism had taken a downturn when military offensive against militants was increased in 2018. Some 8.5 lakh tourists including 50,000 foreigners visited the Valley in 2018 while 11 lakh tourists visited in 2017. This year in January, 22,615 tourists arrived in Kashmir, while in February and March, the figure was 11, 395 and 14,805, respectively.
Travel Agents Association of Kashmir president Ashfaq Siddiq said overall the tourism has been on a downside since the Pulwama attack. “The elections also had an effect coupled with negative media portrayal. Tourists from countries like Thailand and Malaysia do come as these countries don’t have much of the Indian media’s reach.’’
Last year in April, 49,147 tourists had visited the Valley. In 2016, 24,494 foreigners visited the state, 31, 396 in 2017 and 55,814 in 2018.
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