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| Gulmarg set for snow festival | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | Dec 23
Gulmarg, the famous winter sports destination in Jammu and Kashmir, is being dressed up to host Snow festival on the eve of Christmas.
Besides last year's star attraction, like snow cycling, night ice skating, snow making competition, sledge race, snow scooter races, skiing, snow rugby, etc, food festival and cultural events will form part of the snow event set to kick start tomorrow, a spokesman of the tourism department said.
Encouraged by the success of the snow festival last year, the spokesman said the tourism department is leaving no stone unturned to promote the hill station as winter sports destination in national as well as international media.
He said, besides the festival, the tourism department is also organising national winter games in Gulmarg from February 17 next year and international cross-country skiing which has been duly approved by the Federation Internal Skiing (FIS).
The popular skiing resort was visited by a large number of foreign tourists last year and we expect the number will increase many fold this year. We have also decided to keep special facilities in place to lure maximum number of tourists from across the globe, he said.
He claimed that Gulmarg is cheap and most affordable place for winter games across world for both domestic and international tourists. Besides winter sports, tourists can also enjoy the snowy beauty of the valley. |
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