SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government on Tuesday informed the Legislative Assembly that 4.48 crore tourists, including 1.20 lakh foreigners, visited JK over the past two years.
In a written reply to a question by MLA Eidgah, Mubarak Gul, Minister in Charge of Tourism, Omar Abdullah, said that JK recorded 2.12 crore tourists in 2023 and 2.36 crore in 2024.
Of these, 55,337 foreign tourists visited JK in 2023, while 65,452 arrived in 2024. The minister further stated that 2.11 crore domestic tourists visited in 2023 and 2.35 crore in 2024.
The government disclosed that Rs 35.08 crore was spent on promotion, advertisement, and allied activities by the Tourism Department over the past two financial years.
Of this, Rs 14.14 crore was spent in 2023–24 and Rs 20.94 crore in 2024–25, the minister said.
He also informed the House that 59 assets of the Tourism Department have been outsourced in the past two years. (KNO)
