SRINAGAR, AUGUST 25: Department of Tourism assisted a group of 31 tourists from Kerala who were stuck at Jawahar Tunnel during the intervening night of 24th – 25th August 2018 due to a heavy traffic jam.
“On the instructions of Secretary Tourism, the tourists were requested to move to JKTDC huts at Banihal for the night stay to ensure that they relax and spend their night comfortably,” a statement of the Department said.
Their boarding and lodging was arranged by the Tourism Department on complimentary basis as a goodwill gesture to help provide seamless services for the tourists, make their travels memorable and also improve tourist footfall to the state, the statement added.
The tourists thanked the department for their timely help and making their night stay arrangements for their onward journey to Kashmir.
