Manali: As a Covid-19 case throughout the country is increasing, the tourist foot point in Himachal has dropped significantly in recent days even when the state government does not impose tourism restrictions.
The first week of January witnessed the recording of high tourist inflows and most hotels had been fully occupied.
Travelers enjoy a business that is fast until January 10 after the number of tourists who enter the country began to decline sharply.
Pelangi said it was due to a surge in Covid-19 cases that people began to avoid traveling with family.
Inflow tours in the state have fallen more than 60 percent in the last 10 days.
Hotelier Prakash Sharma said, “The hotel in Himachal does a great business in December and the first week of January.
I would say Himachal received a record number of high tourists in the first week of January this year.
COVID-19 cases were previously controlled and Himachal had The number of cases that can be ignored.
With increasing cases, tourists begin to avoid travel.
Now many hotels are empty.
However, some tourists still visit the country.
“Almost one tourist lakh visits Shimla, Manali, Dharamshala, Dalhousie, and other tourist destinations in Himachal every time the earlier this month.
This number now decreases by several thousand.
The hotel occupancy as a whole in the state is less than 20 percent.
There are no tourism limits, frequent snow spells of snow and sufficient snow availability in various locations still attract tourists to the country but experts say inflow tourists will not see leaps until Covid-19 cases see a decline.
Manali, where more than 1.00 tourist buses come from Delhi every day earlier this month, witnessing the arrival of less than 25 buses.
These buses also remain half full.
Taxi operators also don’t get frequent bookings.
Himachal observed at night at night between 10pm and 5am but there was no limit on tourist vehicles traveling on a long route at night.
Even though the market is closed at night, restaurants and restaurants are allowed to keep open until 10pm.
In this way, small restrictions imposed by the government did not affect tourism so far.
Association of Himachal Pradesh Budhi Parkash Travel Agency Association said January to mid-April was the Lean tourist season in Himachal.
“But this year thousands of tourists, are mostly from Neigbouring countries, towards Himachal after going home for more than a year.
People must cancel foreign tours because of travel restrictions.
So, Himachal is the best choice for lakh people.
Even though Himachal government welcomes the government Tourists, Omicron scare have begun to affect footsteps.
We hope everything will be normal before the summer tourist season, “he said.