Union Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat shared the information in a written response on Monday to a question on whether or not the Centre is conscious of the decline in vacationer footfall and enterprise losses in Jammu and Kashmir through the peak vacationer season following the latest terrorist assault in Pahalgam.
AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi additionally requested if any evaluation was made by the federal government on its financial impression on native tourism-dependent stakeholders.
“No such evaluation has been made by the Ministry of Tourism on financial impression on native tourism-dependent stakeholders in Jammu and Kashmir,” Shekhawat stated.
The Pahalgam terror strike happened on April 22 by which 26 civilians, largely vacationers have been brutally killed.
India avenged the killings with Operation Sindoor below which the armed forces early Might 7 decimated a number of terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir (PoK). A particular dialogue within the Lok Sabha on “India's robust, profitable and decisive Operation Sindoor” started on Monday as Defence Minister Rajnath Singh stated the army motion in opposition to Pakistan had despatched a transparent message to supporters of terrorism that India was dedicated to defend its motherland. In his response, Shekhawat additionally shared year-wise tabulated information for home vacationer visits (DTVs) and overseas vacationer visits (FTVs) from 2020 to 2025.
This information is supplied by the state tourism division. Primarily based on the most recent info acquired from the Jammu and Kashmir tourism division, the variety of DTVs and FTVs stood at 95,92,664 and 19,570 respectively for the interval January-June of 2025.
DTVs for previous 4 years have been — 2,35,24,629 (for yr 2024); 2,06,79,336 (2023); 1,84,99,332 (2022); 1,13,14,920 (2021) and 25,19,524 (2020).
FTVs for previous 4 years have been — 65,452 (for yr 2024); 55,337 (2023); 19,985 (2022); 1,650 (2021) and 5,317 (2020, and for January-June interval of 2025 it stood at 19,570.
Shekhawat stated the Ministry of Tourism has taken a number of steps or initiatives to advertise tourism sector within the nation, together with in Jammu and Kashmir.
On April 23, the Union tourism minister had informed reporters in Delhi that some individuals with nefarious intentions had tried to once more “incite separatism and terrorism” within the Valley and asserted that his ministry would do the most effective to “minimise the dent” on tourism in Jammu and Kashmir within the wake of the Pahalgam assault.
