Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Nov 3: Tourist Trade Interest Guild (TTIG) today urged the Central and Union Territory Governments to reopen several key tourist destinations that have remained closed since the April 22 terror attack this year, warning that the prolonged restrictions are crippling the region’s tourism economy.

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Addressing a press conference here, Chairman TTIG, Zahoor Ahmad Karnai said that destinations such as Doodhpathri, Yusmarg, Naranag, and the upper glacier route in Sonamarg remain off-limits to visitors even as normalcy has returned. “Everyone connected to tourism-hotel owners, houseboat operators, taxi drivers, pony owners-is suffering. The economy is collapsing,” the chairman said.

He said he personally met Union Tourism Minister Gaje

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