Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 24: The Minister for Tourism and Culture, Nawang Rgzin Jora today said that the concerted efforts of the Government towards showcasing and development of tourism attraction spots in the state has won the Jammu and Kashmir the status of best destination 2012.
While referring to the Lonely Planet magazine readers voting Jammu and Kashmir State as best destination-emerging (India) for 2012, the Minister said that massive tourist infrastructure development for attracting tourists of varied interests and publicity of new and old spots has put the sate prominently on the world tourism map.
He said the varied landscape of tourism attraction places right from Lakhanpur to Ladakh and Poonch to Kishtwar have added to the already famous places of Kashmir Valley and catapulted the scope of Tourism Industry in the State. He said today the state has a variety of tourism for the visitors, including adventure, spiritual, heritage, adventure, sports and eco in addition to the traditional leisure tourism.
Listing the completed and under execution tourism projects, the Minister said that the government has also taken up development of unique Trans Himalayan Culture Centre Leh, Nagarnagar- Watalab Tourist circuit at a total cost of Rs 60 cr. He said the centre has also agreed to fund development of three pilgrim Tourism Projects of Rs 50 crore each, which includes Buddhist Circuit Leh , Sofi Circuit for Kashmir and Spiritual Circuit for Jammu. He said these innovative projects are all set to add new dimensions to the tourism industry in the State.
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