Record breaking year for Kashmir drowned by crises
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Jammu and Kashmir had a torrid tourism season this year which was plagued by one crisis after another. Street protests, shutdowns and curfews in the Valley besides flash-floods in the Ladakh region deterred tourists from visiting at all and caused many to cut their trip short if they were not left in need of rescue and evacuation. At one point the tourist exodus forced airlines to schedule extra flights out of Leh. This was an unfortunate change in fortunes for the region’s tourist industry which was on course to break its 23-year-old record of one million visitors before fighting broke out mid-year, reported PTI.
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