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| AJHLA to boycott Jammu festival | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, APR 1: The hoteliers and lodge owners in city associated with All Jammu Hotels and Lodges Association (AJHLA) as well as those associated with other organizations of hotel and restaurant owners and members of Jammu Prayatan Vikas Mandal are seriously thinking to boycott this year’s Jammu tourism festival held annually in the middle of April, as a protest against government’s non seriousness and apathy to promote tourism in and around Jammu city said Inderjeet Khajuria, President All Jammu Hotels and Lodges Association and general secretary Jammu Prayatan Vikas Mandal, an apex body of 24 association of traders related with tourism and pilgrimage here today.
In a press note released here today, after the meeting of AJHLA, Khajuria said that a meeting will be convening of various tourism and pilgrimage related trade organizations shortly to take final decision in this regard. He said that there is a general feeing of resentment and anguish among the members of all the tourism related bodies about their being taken for ride by the authorities, who seek and get their full cooperation every year in holding the Jammu Festival, but their grievances are never redressed and assurances held to them of concrete steps to be taken to develop Jammu tourism are never fulfilled.
He said the former Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad had appreciated the concern of business community, particularly the traders related with tourism and pilgrimage that with the reaching of train at Katra, business in Jammu city will get a death blow. As a remedy to the same he had assured to develop Jammu city as an independent tourist destination, by taking some concrete steps. But nothing practical was done. The present Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah has also recently talked on similar lines, but we have the reason to doubt the sincerity and seriousness of the government in developing Jammu city as an independent tourist destination, to make good the loss in business to be suffered by it after the train reaches Katra and later Kashmir.
Khajuria further said that although about 7 lakh pilgrims visited Mata Vaishno Devi and Katra during the ongoing Navratras, the hotels and lodges in Jammu are witnessing zero percent occupancy, since no pilgrim on his way to Katra or back from Katra likes to stay at Jammu, due to the unimaginative policies of the government and tourism related authorities doing nothing to attract Vaishno Devi pilgrims to stay put at Jammu. The other who attended the meeting included Ajay Gupta, Pawan Gupta, HS Manhas, Baldev and Amarjeet Singh. |
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