Terrorist attack PAHALGAM: Javed Ahmad was busy with reservations in his 20-room hotel in Pahalgam until April 21. But his routine suddenly changed and in the wrong, 22 April, when terrorists struck Baisaran Meadow and killed 26 people, mostly tourists.
“Since then, they have been busy with returning money to those who had reserved rooms in our hotel,” Javed Livemint said on the phone.
Javed runs a hotel in Pahalgam Hill on the road to Chandanwari – a few kilometers from Baisaran Meadow overlooking the Lidder River.
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We had advanced reservations until May, Javed said. “We usually take 25 percent of costs in advance. I have to return £4 Lakh for May, ”he said, expressing a shock over the terrorist attack Pahalgam.
The terrorist attack Pahalgam did not kill people last week, but throws a long -term shadow on tourism, the hoteliers say. Tourism is not a support, but one of the contributors to the economy of Jammu and Kashmir. So many tourists have never been killed before in a single attack in a cashmere violent past.
13 Lakh reservation canceled
The terrorist attack of Pahalgam has already launched the extended abolition of tourists, which influenced the preliminary reservation. In the Valley, Babar Chaudhary, President of the Association of Hotel and Restaurant Restaurants and the Association of Hotels and Restaurants, at least 13 Laky reservations scheduled in August said in Srinagar.
The Association presents about 240 hotels and restaurants. From April to August more than 25 lakh tourists usually visit Kashmir. This year at least 90 percent of them will not come because of fear, Chaudhary said.
Until August, about 13 Lakh tourists – including those from abroad – made a preliminary reservation to visit the valley and stay in local hotels and guest houses. But after a terrorist attack 22. April, tourists began to cancel their reservations.
The spring season just started in Kashmir. The Tulip Garden in Srinagar attracted 8.5 visitors to 8.5 lamps within 26 days of its opening. Tour operators say they are preparing for the summer season to ensure a comfortable stay for tourists.
“Not only people were killed. They fell out of living, which began to rise in the last few years,” said the travel operator who did not want to be named. who did not want to be named. All our hopes were interrupted, ”Chaudhary said.
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Up to 90 percent of the hilly state travel reserves were canceled due to security concerns, PTI on April 23, referring to travel agencies based in Delhi, reported.
A survey conducted by Localcircles revealed that 62 % of families who had Kashmir between May and December 2025 will now cancel their plans after April 22 Pahalgam’s terrorist attack.
“Nowadays I usually got 4-5 rides on Dal Lake. For every ride I would earn 1000-1200 rupees. It ended so far. I hope to see tourists back to Dal Lake,” said Fayaz Ahmad, owner Šikary. About 1000 shikaras work on Lake Daily, especially in the summer.
“If you come to Srinagar nowadays, you will find that the lake is abandoned, which is unusual in April to May, when the arrival of tourists will start,” Fayaz said.
Terrorists want to destroy cashmere: modi
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday 27th April touched the terrorist attack of Pahalgam on his radio show Mann Ki Baat.
“At a time when peace returned to Kashmir, schools and colleges were alive, democracy was strengthened, tourism increased, and new opportunities were created for youth, but the enemies of Jammu and Kashmir and the country did not like it.
A growing influx of tourism
Hotels and restaurants over the valley of Kashmir, houseboards and ships (shikaras) on the untouched lake, ponies in hilly terrains, taxis on the plains and art and craftsmen depend on tourism in Kashmir. Recently, Kashmir has also started to organize tourism and cultural events, which increases the industry industry.
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According to the Ministry of Tourism Jammu and Kashmir, the total number of tourists in Jamm and Kashmir in 2024 in 2024 was approximately 35 lakhs, according to official data from 27 lakhs.
Terrorist attack: According to Jammu and Kashmir’s Ministry of Tourism, the total number of tourists in Jamm and Kashmir in 2024 was approximately 35 lakhs, the rise of 27 lamps in 2023 and 26 Lakh in 2022.
In recent years, the number of tourism has begun to grow in Kashmir with a perceived decline in incidents related to terrorism and the subsequent increase in the trace of tourism, especially after August 2019, when Kashmir’s Article 370 was abolished and the former state split into two territories of Union and Kashmir and Ladakh.
“Businesses are completed”
Livemint spoke to hoteliers, taxi drivers, shikar drivers, merchants, event managers and houseboards. They all had a common resentment:
“Tourism Hiz wet”, which is projected into “tourism, is completed” in Kashmir after the terrorist attack Pahalgam.
“There is sudden inactivity. Kaar Gov Khatam, Bakah (our shop is done. I swear with God),” said Kashmir’s entrepreneur who operates a craft trade in half, the legendary market in Kashmir Lal Chowk, in the coming days.
Kashmir has also been catching up in the recent past as a popular wedding goal. This was also influenced.
“We had a wedding of entrepreneur Gujarati of Bombai based in Dubai booked in mid -May. The wedding was planned on the spot overlooking Dal Lake in Srinagar and standing around £1.5 crore. I was expecting a deposit when the attack occurred. But the wedding is now not happening in Srinagar, ”said Basid Nazeer, who works for the management of events in Srinagar.
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Some reports report that the tourism industry in Jamm and Kashmir is at least 8 % of the Union’s GDP. However, kassshmir economists say it is less than that, but still acknowledge that the attack will affect investment prospects in the valley. While tourism does not count as a separate element on coming to a gross domestic product (GDP), the impact on the hotel industry is considered. Kashmir Valley has about 4,000 hotels.
Tourism and Economy JK
According to an economic survey of Jamm and Kashmir from 2024-25, GSDP increased the territory of the department (gross state domestic product) by 7.06 % and 7.08 %. With the overall estimate of GSDP to £2,65 lakh crore, it is believed that tourism stands £ 21 200 crore per year, some of the messages suggested.
“We know the hotel industry contributes.” £2700 crore to Kashmine’s economy annually. We assume that the influence of a multiplier four times can assume that tourism is contributing £10 000 crore in economy UT. This is about 5 percent of the total GSDP estimated at £2,65 lakh crore, ”said Ejaz Ayoub, economist based in Srinagar, Livemint.
“When tourism increases, it sends a sense of positivity and attracts an investment that will certainly be influenced,” he said, adding that Škoda will have a cascading effect on the assembly of an indirect tax called the goods and services (GST).
UT Government, under Governor Lieutenant, published in 2020 tourism policy to generate employment for approximately 50,000 people every year and attract the average investment goal £2,000 crore per year for the next five years.
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UT, won the elected government under the main Minister Omar Abdullah in 2024. In the first budget speech as CM, Abdullah said that the goal of his government is to “increase the contribution of tourism to GSDP from 7 % to at least 15 percent in the next four to five years”.
However, the goal looks at least uncertain.
Terrorists want to destroy cashmere again.
In these uncertain times, Javed saw the first signs of hope for the revival of tourism, when April 26 welcomed a group of 10 foreign tourists to their hotel.
“I hope it lifts it,” Livemint said.
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