Occupancy down to 10% in Valley hotels

  • | Thursday | 10th May, 2018

Though the situation started improving in 2017, the spurt in violence has affected occupancy, Chaya said. Hotelier Sajjad Ahmad of Hotel Comrade said though there are one lakh rooms available in Kashmir valley, only 10 to 15% occupancy was recorded on Tuesday. Kashmir has over 7% stakes in the tourism sector which, in a good season, earns the state Rs 1500 crore in revenue. SRINAGAR: The ongoing attacks on tourists by stone-pelters - the latest being the assault on a Tamil Nadu family on Srinagar-Gulmarg road on Monday in which a 22-year-old was killed - has hit the tourism industry badly, adding to its pre-existing slump this season in the Valley.On Tuesday, J&K police detained seven people for their involvement in the tourist's death, who was killed after his car was attacked by a mob of stone-pelters on Srinagar-Gulmarg highway.Hotels in Kashmir have only 10 to 15% occupancy as compared to around 40% occupancy during the same period in 2017, Mustaq Ahmad Chaya , chairman of J&K Hoteliers club, told TOI.Wide media coverage of frequent rioting, stone-pelting and encounters between terrorists and security forces have been keeping tourists away.

SRINAGAR: The ongoing attacks on tourists by stone-pelters - the latest being the assault on a Tamil Nadu family on Srinagar-Gulmarg road on Monday in which a 22-year-old was killed - has hit the tourism industry badly, adding to its pre-existing slump this season in the Valley.On Tuesday, J&K police detained seven people for their involvement in the tourist's death, who was killed after his car was attacked by a mob of stone-pelters on Srinagar-Gulmarg highway.Hotels in Kashmir have only 10 to 15% occupancy as compared to around 40% occupancy during the same period in 2017, Mustaq Ahmad Chaya , chairman of J&K Hoteliers club, told TOI.Wide media coverage of frequent rioting, stone-pelting and encounters between terrorists and security forces have been keeping tourists away. Though the situation started improving in 2017, the spurt in violence has affected occupancy, Chaya said. Kashmir has over 7% stakes in the tourism sector which, in a good season, earns the state Rs 1500 crore in revenue. Hotelier Sajjad Ahmad of Hotel Comrade said though there are one lakh rooms available in Kashmir valley, only 10 to 15% occupancy was recorded on Tuesday.

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