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| September 24, 2010 | Incessant rainfall causes hindrance to Himachal Tourism | | Manali (Himachal Pradesh): Incessant rainfall over the past two months has resulted
in the decline of tourists visiting Manali, which has left an adverse impact on the tourism and hospitality sectors here. A senior official of the Kullu district
administration on Friday said the persistent rainfall over the past few months
has resulted in less number of tourists visiting the hilly State. It has been
reported that the transport operators here are also badly hit due to decline in
the flow of tourists. The large, medium and budget hotels, which number around
1500 in Manali region alone, have not seen a single tourist visiting their hotels
over the past two months. "We are visiting now north India, and we have been
travelling
Manali and Spiti Valley there was some snow and rainfall. So our Spiti Valley
trip had to change and we were planning before hand to go to Leh," said Zohar
Kaplan, a tourist from Israel. Reportedly, apart from Manali, many other regions
of Himachal Pradesh have faced similar downtrends in tourism sector, the peak
season of which usually starts around April and ends by September. "From the past
two months Himachal Pradesh is facing rainfall, because of which the routes of
the valley are getting blocked. Due to the rainfall in the hills, the trekkers
can't go on trekking because of which the entire region of Kullu is facing less
inflow of tourists and the hotels are almost lying vacant for the past two months,"
said B M Nanat, Deputy Commissioner, Kullu. Routes to various areas have been
blocked due to massive landslides, and tourists can only hope for the rainfall
to stop before they can go for trekking once again.
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