NEW DELHI: The string of civilian killings in October failed to dampen the spirit of those keen to strike Kashmir off their travel ‘bucket list’, with 1.27 lakh tourist arrivals recorded in the Valley in the month of November alone.
The tourist arrivals for last month have not only surpassed the figure for other months of this year but were also the highest for November in the last seven years, according to J&K government officials.
According to figures shared by J&K government, tourist arrivals into Kashmir in November 2021 were way higher than the 6,327 arrivals recorded in 2020 and 12,086 in 2019. The figure this November was even higher than that for the same month prior to abrogation of Article 370, with 33,720 tourist arrivals registered in the Valley in 2018, 1.12 lakh in 2017, 23,569 in 2016 and 64,778 in 2015.
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