Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 15: A joint delegation of Hotel & Restaurant Association, Katra (HRAK) & Federation of Hotels, Restaurants, Industry & Commerce of Jammu Region called on newly appointed Secretary Culture & Tourism Dr Syeed Abid Rasheed Shah and apprised him with regard to various issues related to Tourism Industry and Hotel industry in particular.
The delegation, comprised of President HRAK & HRICJR Rakesh Wazir, Chairman HRAK Sham Lal Kesar, Sr Vice President HRAK Virender Kesar & others, submitted a memorandum to Secretary Culture & Tourism. Director Tourism, Jammu Vivekanand Rao; Joint Director Tourism, Sunaina Sharma Mehta and Special Secretary Tourism, Amarjeet Singh were also present during the meeting of delegation.
Wazir emphasized that need of the hour is to increase the stay of one crore visiting Vaishnodevi pilgrims and for that places of Tourist interests around Katra, especially Shiv Khori, Patnitop, Natha Top, Sanasar, Bhaderwah, Mansar, Surinsar, Kol Kandoli, Deva Mai etc are needed to be developed.
He said that all Industrial benefits need to be extended to Tourism Sector besides developing of non polluting Industrial parks around Katra and especially related to the products linked to Vaishnodevi pilgrimage.
Shyam Lal Kesar apprised that registration of Hotels, Guest Houses and renewable of the same, which was being done by Tourism Department since long, has been stopped on one pretext or the other. He sought one time registration on the pattern of industries.
Virender Kesar suggested that Tourism department should utilize its full resources in publicizing of places of Tourist interests, exploring the new destinations in the Union Territory besides bringing more and more Tourists in the UT.
Rasheed listened to the delegation patiently and assured that sympathetic consideration will be given to each and every point raised in the meeting and the points which pertain to him will be addressed immediately.
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