Tourists and locals win at Ghanta Ghar on a chilly iciness evening, on New Yr’s eve, in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on December 31, 2025.
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As vacationer float once extra returns to Kashmir on the ranges seen within the months earlier than the phobia attack in Pahalgam in April, a multi-layer safety veil used to be thrown round vacationer locations within the Valley on eve of the New Yr on Wednesday (December 31, 2025).
The J&K Police passe facial recognition gadgets to place native terrorists and their supporters, registered by the police, faraway from Pahalgam in south Kashmir. Rankings of autos entering Pahalgam, which is decked up for the New Yr celebrations, had been checked, and travellers had been scanned with facial recognition gadgets, officers said.
Extra checkpoints had been get 22 situation up in Gulmarg, which borders Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK), in Baramulla district. Special events, alongside with light and musical reveals, unfolded on Wednesday evening on the notorious iciness destination, which is lined by a thick blanket of snow after basically the most in type spell of snowfall within the previous 24 hours. Quite a lot of company are tenting in Gulmarg for New Yr’s eve. Most hotels reported plump occupancy. Accommodation in Gulmarg involves about 2,200 beds in hotels and huts.
Security has been beefed up in Sonamarg in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal. Areas conclude to Baltal, on the route to the Amarnath Yatra, win been saved out of bounds for tourists. Sonamarg, which used to be opened for iciness tourism for the first time in 2024, has also witnessed a fresh spell of snowfall within the previous 24 hours
The renewed reputation of locations in Kashmir comes at a time when the Valley’s tourism sector has taken a necessary hit following the phobia attack in Pahalgam, which left 26 tourists stupid.
“Tourist jog is the identical as it used to be sooner than April this one year (the Pahalgam fear attack took advise on April 22). We labored on rebuilding have confidence among tourists at every the nationwide and world ranges. The implications are seen nowadays. Tourism revival used to be also shaped by coordination between the non-public and non-private sectors,” Syed Qamar Sajad, Director, Division of Tourism, said.
Around 5,000 tourists reached Kashmir every day within the previous one week, officers said. Kashmir has hosted round 10.47 lakh domestic tourists in 2025 in contrast with round 26 lakh tourists in 2024.
Published – December 31, 2025 10:58 pm IST
