Srinagar, Jun 26: Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Wednesday said that last year’s successful and peaceful G-2- working group meeting in Srinagar was the turning point in boosting the UT’s tourism potential and removing the scars from the once struggling tourism industry. He said post G-20 meeting foreign as well as domestic tourists started flocking to J&K in large numbers. Addressing the two-day Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Development Conclave-2024 at Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC) on the banks of famous Dal Lake, the LG, said that J&K’s tourism industry has seen gone through a massive transformation over the past few years.
“The turning point to give to give J&K’s once ailing tourism sector a real boost was the successful and peaceful G-20 Tourism working group meeting in Srinagar last year. Those who participated in the working group meeting here became the brand ambassadors of J&K’s tourism,” the LG said. He said post G-20 working group meeting in Srinagar, foreign and domestic tourist arrivals showed a significant increase.
“Those who participated in the Tourism working group meeting in Srinagar last year talked highly of Kashmir’s hospitality and beauty. The result of the word they spread is before us..
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