Kashmir Tourism Affected

This has broken the back of kashmir tourism to assess the impact of the conditions following the orders of august 5 2019 indiaspend analysed comparative figures for tourist arrivals in the valley during 2019 and 2018.

Miss tourism international 2019 full show. The citizens of jammu and kashmir jkare facing the worst of times as thousands have lost jobs and wages because the security concern in the state has affected the tourism industry. Kashmirs tourism may take a hit even around the festive season running from durga puja to diwali with several tourists diverting their travel plans to places such as himachal pradesh ladakh and. Lakhs of people associated with the hospitality and tourism industry have been affected by the ongoing situation in kashmir.

According to the report in 2018 kashmir had received 316434 tourists between the months of. While there arent any exact figures about the losses incurred after the abrogation of article 370 industry experts say the losses could run into hundreds of crores. Tourism accounts for 7 of the states gross domestic product.

Kashmir tourism sector hit over 144500 jobs affected after centres move. Given the changes in the news market in which the larger events becomes crunchy bites on tv or snippets to suit a reader in hurry we practice an exhaustive in depth and narrative form of journalism on issues concerning various facets of life in kashmir. But in the past 12 months the tourism graph has only been witnessing a drastic downward turn as every stakeholder be it hoteliers houseboat and shikara owners taxi drivers or artisans remain critically affected.

In addition to the domestic populace kashmir received a heavy influx of international tourists as well. Kashmir life was launched in 2009 as a weekly with an avowed objective to create a world class news product for kashmir and about kashmir. Well fact is that this year people associated with tourism industry in kashmir where iexpecting good flow of tourism but the escalation between the countries is really killing the hopes but for those who think that if people will not visit kashmir it will bring kashmiris on nees need to remember that kashmir has seen a complete tourism blackout from 1989 to 1999 for 10 years and we survived it.