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Write an article on promoting tourism in kashmir |
| Answer» Kashmir, the emperor’s paradise has been a tourist pulling spot for centuries. Those who have visited the place have left with some indelible impressions about its beautiful surroundings.\xa0Tourism and Kashmir.Protect both as they are not mutually exclusive. Both have an indissoluble relationship that has an age. Travelers came here for centuries for the holy silence, heavenly tranquility, fragrance of its flowers and to experience the most hospitable and helpful attitudes of the Kashmiris. Tourism has also promoted commerce of world famous Kashmiri handicrafts and other local products like wood carving items as the buyer has been reaching the production centers and its local outlets compensating for Kashmir’s age old out-sourcing opportunities ever-since it lost its traditional trade links and routes. In the current scenario Tourism has been exposing criminal media projections on Kashmir outside the valley, which is of greater significance in the current state of our isolation.World Tourism Day was celebrated on September 27, 2006 both in and outside Kashmir with usual customary rituals, statements, publications of advertisements, lectures, essay competitions and contests organized by Ministry of tourism of Central and State governments. Each year the day passes into the history without any assessment of successes or failures of this crucial industry. Neither the shot-comings are enlisted, evaluated or focused nor is the future course re-defined in view of the highly competitive world market. However those concerned with the tourism industry in Kashmir re-counted various impediments that stand still in the way of this foremost but delicate industry, in this region. In face of a few unfortunate happenings damaging the industry it seems important to re-define Tourism in Kashmir rather it has necessitated rediscovering Kashmir at least from this point of view. A leading personality from the tourism industry of Mumbai suggested that there was need to refresh and highlight to the world and to the new generation as to why visitors have been attracted to Kashmir, it being the first region in this entire subcontinent to have caught attention of early visitors. It will be thus important to trace the historical background of the tourism industry in this Himalayan region, its attractions, the instinct urge of its early visitors and their contributions. | |