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

Individuals, guides aghast; search essential intervention

Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 4: Whereas Gulmarg is witnessing an unprecedented rush of vacationers nowadays, getting the same-day Gondola ticket has change into nearly unimaginable for the locals in addition to a number of vacationers reaching the world-famous resort to benefit from the keep.
The Gondola tickets at present stand bought out for the subsequent practically 5 days, leaving the locals within the lurch who’re coming back from Gulmarg disheartened, with no Gondola trip.
“As of now, the tickets that are bought solely by on-line mode, stand bought out until June 8 making it unimaginable for the locals in addition to different vacationers to get a trip,” mentioned 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 problem whereas stating it’s arduous for the locals in addition to the vacationers to get Gondola tickets the day they attain Gulmarg.
On this regard, the vacationer guides additionally mentioned 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 comparable 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 corporations upfront, why would they rent us,” mentioned Javeed Ahmad, one of many registered vacationer guides.
Tariq Ahmad Khan, who’s the president of the Vacationer Information Affiliation, Gulmarg mentioned that the authorities can not preserve ticketing one hundred pc on-line and that they should take into account the problems confronted by the guides.
“Registered guides ought to get a reservation quota or they will preserve the identical day on-line possibility open for the folks to get the ticket the day they attain Gulmarg; the massive corporations get the bigger chunk of the tickets and we’re left with nothing,” he mentioned.
On high of it, the tickets are additionally bought at exorbitant costs whereas the official price 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 proofs of the tickets even bought at Rs 1900,” Khan mentioned
The vacationer guides mentioned that the authorities have themselves paved a approach for the black-marketing of the tickets and the hike within the costs.
Secretary Tourism Sarmad Hafeez instructed Excelsior that as a result of unprecedented rush at Gulmarg, the tickets are being booked effectively upfront by folks. “Nevertheless, if there’s another concern, the identical can be seemed into,” he mentioned.
On the problem of black advertising and the uniformity in charges, he mentioned that the web system was established to care for the identical and helps an ideal deal. “There are clear reduce directives issued to the involved concerning the problem of black advertising,” he mentioned.