With the recent Unlock 4 guidelines coming into play and movement of people starting to normalise, the tourism sector in Uttarakhand is reviving at a slow but steady pace.
The Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board (UTDB) has taken many steps to infuse energy in the tourism sector of the state. Dilip Jawalkar, Secretary, Tourism, Uttarakhand said, “UTDB has taken a slew of measures to support the tourism and hospitality sectors. In order to ease the travel of visitors coming to Uttarakhand, we have removed all kinds of movement restrictions for tourists who have the mandatory Covid-19 negative test report.”
UTDB is also planning to deploy tourist facilitation counters at all important state borders and provide on-the-spot Covid-19 testing facility to visitors who are not carrying negative test reports with them.
“Simultaneously, it is our collective efforts at UTDB to constantly be in touch with all the stakeholders and mutually come up with apt guidelines with an objective to support the sector during these difficult times. Recently, we held an online meeting with the stakeholders and discussed various initiatives which can help to promote adventure tourism,” he added.
Adventure Tourism contributes to a majority part of the state’s overall tourist arrivals. Uttarakhand offers various adventure activities to tourists like white water river rafting, water sports, trekking, bungee jumping and paragliding to name a few.