Amid rush in Gulmarg, people craving for same-day Gondola tickets – Jammu Kashmir Latest News | Tourism

Folks, guides aghast; search vital intervention

Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 4: Whereas Gulmarg is witnessing an unprecedented rush of vacationers today, getting the same-day Gondola ticket has turn out to be nearly inconceivable for the locals in addition to a number of vacationers reaching the world-famous resort to benefit from the keep.
The Gondola tickets presently stand bought out for the subsequent almost 5 days, leaving the locals within the lurch who’re getting back from Gulmarg disheartened, and not using a Gondola trip.
“As of now, the tickets that are bought solely by means of on-line mode, stand bought out until June 8 making it inconceivable for the locals in addition to different vacationers to get a trip,” stated one of many locals who was in Gulmarg to benefit from the day along with his household.
Whereas the authorities are highlighting the vacationer inflow, it seems that the problems being confronted by the locals, vacationers in addition to the registered vacationer guides, are being outrightly ignored
The folks in addition to those that are related to the tourism sector rue the official indifference in direction of the difficulty whereas stating it’s onerous for the locals in addition to the vacationers to get Gondola tickets the day they attain Gulmarg.
On this regard, the vacationer guides additionally stated that the web reserving of the tickets in addition to alleged “mismanagement” of issues at Gulmarg was taking a toll on the livelihood of the registered vacationer guides on the vacationer resort.
“The vacationers rent the guides to make issues corresponding to getting tickets and different logistics hassle-free, however when we aren’t even capable of assist them in getting the tickets as a result of the identical is bought out to the massive journey firms prematurely, why would they rent us,” stated Javeed Ahmad, one of many registered vacationer guides.
Tariq Ahmad Khan, who’s the president of the Vacationer Information Affiliation, Gulmarg stated that the authorities can not preserve ticketing one hundred pc on-line and that they should contemplate the problems confronted by the guides.
“Registered guides ought to get a reservation quota or they will preserve the identical day on-line choice open for the folks to get the ticket the day they attain Gulmarg; the massive firms get the bigger chunk of the tickets and we’re left with nothing,” he stated.
On prime of it, the tickets are additionally bought at exorbitant costs whereas the official charge has been set as Rs 750. “There have been cases the place the ticket have been bought at Rs 1200 by the brokers who e-book the tickets for his or her purchasers; we’ve got proofs of the tickets even bought at Rs 1900,” Khan stated
The vacationer guides stated that the authorities have themselves paved a manner for the black-marketing of the tickets and the hike within the costs.
Secretary Tourism Sarmad Hafeez instructed Excelsior that because of the unprecedented rush at Gulmarg, the tickets are being booked properly prematurely by folks. “Nevertheless, if there may be another situation, the identical might be appeared into,” he stated.
On the difficulty of black advertising and the uniformity in charges, he stated that the web system was established to maintain the identical and helps a terrific deal. “There are clear lower directives issued to the involved relating to the difficulty of black advertising,” he stated.