Terror takes a toll on tourism in Kashmir

BOOKINGS FOR ALMOST 12,000 ROOMS WERE CANCELLED

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There are hardly any tourists in the scenic Himalayan region of Kashmir. Most of the hotels and ornate pinewood houseboats are empty. Resorts in the snowclad mountains have fallen silent. Hundreds of cabs stand idle.

It’s the fallout of last month’s gun massacre that left 26 people, mostly Hindu tourists, dead in Indian-administered Kashmir followed by tit-for-tat military strikes by India and Pakistan, bringing the nuclear-armed countries to the brink of their third war over the region.

‘Almost zero footfall’