Chief Minister J&K Omar Abdullah during a meeting with delegation of Thomas Cook in J&K 26 May 2025. Photo Credit: PTI
Main Minister J&K Omar Abdullah to embark on a great effort to put a sense of security and safety between potential home tourists, trying to get visitors back to the Kashmir valley.
He comes more than a month after the tourist sector J&K suffered the main slump due to a terrorist attack, which was left 22 April 26 civilians in a meadow with a high nadmation Baisaran in Pahalgam South Kashmir.
Officials said that Mr. Abdullah presided over the meetings of the participating part of the tourism on May 27, May in Pahalgam, the first of the terrorist attack. They said that his decision to choose Pahalgam as a meeting venue was to show a “normal return” to the tourist place. After a terrorist attack, the occupancy rate in hotels decreased to less than 10%, according to local hoteliers.
The chief minister will meet the best of the country, especially from Maharashtra. These include Raja Rani, Veena, Pooja, etc. All the main travel companies from Kashmir also participate in the meeting.
“We expect that the top tour operators will take part in the country at Pahalgam. This will give the starting point to revive the Moribund tourism industry, especially to revive the age relationship of Pahalgam with tourists across the country,” said Nasir Shah, CEO of culture and natural expedition, “Hindu said.
Jammu & Kashmir Hoteliers Club (JKHC) chairman Ahmad Chaya will receive travel operators who also visit Sonamarg in the central Kashmir.
In Gulmarg North Kashmir, another popular tourism hotspot, Mr. Abdullah will chair a meeting of higher officials on May 28th. Gulmarg, a target closer to control, was also affected by a four -day military confrontation between India and Pakistan against the background of a pahalgam terrorist attack at the beginning of this month.
When normalness returned to the borders in J&K after the recent Indo-Pakistani Agreement, there is a growing demand for re-opening of 48 destinations in J&K, especially parks, meadows and gardens of Pahalgamu-Kirté were banned for tourists.
The United Pahalgam Trade Forum (UPTF), a body that includes trade union bodies and civil society organizations in Pahalgam, also called on the government to reopen the locations of Pahalgam for local tourists. After a terrorist attack on April 22, April 22, April 22, about April will remain about one dozen parks and gardens in Pahalgam.
Published – May 26, 2025 22:18
