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| Omar suggests insurance cover for foreign tourists visiting JK | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | June 12
The Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir government should work out an insurance cover for those tourists whose countries have issued negative travel advisories for visiting the Valley, National Conference President Omar Abdullah has said. He said the insurance cover will boost the arrival of foreign tourists to Kashmir.
"The problem with the travel advisory is that it not only advises people not to visit but renders their insurance policy null and void if they choose to ignore the advisory which is perhaps a much bigger discouragement," the NC leader wrote in his blog www. Jknc. Org/ blog.
"...What the Government of India and state government need to do is to work with some insurance companies to provide insurance cover to those foreign tourists who visit and whose insurance policy would otherwise not cover them for Kashmir," he wrote.
Omar said it was a simple solution that could possibly encourage some of the high spending foreign tourists to return to Kashmir.
"While it was a fact that some of the foreign tourists have died in Kashmir since the turmoil started in early 1990, it should not act as a deterrent for foreigners to visit the valley," Omar wrote in his blog.
Omar had a few more suggestions for the government to keep the flow of tourists in the state for years to come.
"We have mountains, gardens, streams and we have the natural beauty that god has given us but we need to do more. We need to start focusing on environmentally friendly infrastructure," Omar said. |
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