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Leh tourism drops by 50% in 2019; industry experts cite Lok Sabha polls, curtailed flight services, late highway openings as reasons
FirstpostTourism in Leh is going through a rough phase as tourist footfall has declined by over 50 percent this year Leh: Tourism in Leh is going through a rough phase as tourist footfall has declined by over 50 percent this year due to a host of reasons like Lok Sabha elections, curtailed flight services and late opening of Leh-Manali road, according to hotel industry players. Jammu and Kashmir’s Leh district is among one of the favourite destinations for foreign tourists as nearly 50,000 people from abroad visited the land of high passes last year, tourism officials had said. Amrit, whose company runs hotel and liquor business in Ladakh for the last three decades, blames much-delayed opening of Leh-Manali road, security-related concerns in Kashmir, lower flight operations coupled with Lok Sabha elections for the drastic fall in the tourist footfall in Ladakh this year. “A total of 3,27,366 tourists, including 49,477 foreigners, visited Leh in 2018, marking an increase of over 50,000 compared to the previous year,” a senior official of the state tourism department said.
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