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Touchwood, Kashmir is in the middle of another bumper tourism season. The cobbled pathway on the Poloview Street, the tourists milling in and out of our hill stations, fruit trucks and other horticulture products carrying trucks trolling unimpeded on our highways, better electricity, fewer load-shedding hours, touristy feel on our boulevards, and droves of foreign tourists on our mountains – all this adds up to a great optimism exuded across the length and breadth of the valley. The present government dispensation has worked tirelessly to ensure that the tourism and horticulture sectors are given priority as both these sectors are the backbone of our economy. One can only hope that hopefully with the train chugging to Kashmir next year we will have an even better footfall of tourists. The railway connectivity to Kashmir will open doors for newer business opportunities in Kashmir. The present dispensation has followed an assiduous plan to knit the granular things together and meticulously knit together a strategy to woo more and more tourists to Kashmir. We can further expand our tourism scope by opening our villages to tourists. Our villages are touristy places by all means – tell me a village in Kashmir which does not have a brooklet snaking through it, or is not dotted with alcoves of almond, willow, or plane trees. Our villages have a huge tourism potential and government must decide innovative strategies to relay or so to say divert tourists towards our villages. All villages in Kashmir have good internet connectivity and now also boast of good electricity supply. For our highland villages, we can introduce off grid kind of tourism which can bring huge revenue to these places. We must congratulate government for successfully helping rebuild the tourism sector of the valley post-Covid-19. We hope that this pace is maintained for the next few seasons as well.
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