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The Good Friday long weekend saw tourists from Delhi-NCR rushing to hill towns of Nainital, Mussoorie, Shimla etc., in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh for a quick getaway and a relief from the rising temperatures in the plains
Deserted Mall Road on Sunday
MUSSOORIE/NAINITAL: Tourist footfalls declined by as much as half in Mussoorie and Nainital this weekend as strict Covid-related checks kicked in. While hotel bookings were made mandatory last week to enter both hill stations, police teams also started thorough inspection of Covid- negative test reports.
Compared with the past few weekends when hotels in Mussoorie had recorded 100% occupancy, bookings nosedived to 40% to 50% this weekend. In Nainital, many top hotels had barely 20% occupancy on Sunday. Sandeep Sahni, president of Uttarakhand Hotels Association, told TOI tourist footfall had declined drastically by half in hill stations.
“A number of factors have contributed to the decline in tourist rush. The administration has become very strict and there has also been some negative publicity after a video of a large number of tourists taking a dip at Kempty Falls went viral. Heavy rainfall over the past week has also caused people to change trav
As tourists throng Uttarakhand’s Nainital, fear of third wave lingers in the air
As tourists throng Uttarakhand’s Nainital, fear of third wave lingers in the air
As Nainital witnesses a massive influx of tourists following the ease in Covid-19 restrictions by the Uttarakhand government, the fear of third wave of pandemic looms large in the air.
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UPDATED: July 7, 2021 07:47 IST
After months of being cooped up in their homes, people are now making a beeline to the hill stations in what many are calling revenge tourism . (Photo: Aishwarya Paliwal)
Uttarakhand has seen a rapid rise in the inflow of tourists after the state government eased restrictions imposed in the state to curb the spread of coronavirus infection. With the massive increase in footfalls, the fear of third wave of the pandemic looms large as tourists show a lackadaisical attitude towards following Covid-19 protocols.