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- Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said at a tourism conference in Srinagar that 90% of the roughly 5,000 hotels built in Kashmir over the past six years are illegal, and named prominent hotelier Mushtaq Ahmad Chaya, who received an Enforcement Directorate notice in June, while he sat in the audience.
- Sinha said these projects nonetheless generated investment of ₹80,000 to 1 lakh crore, with about 90% coming from locals.
- He also criticised hotel overpricing and taxi charges for damaging Kashmir's image, and called for tourism profits to reach smaller stakeholders like homestay owners and craftsmen.
- He framed ethical tourism and ecological conservation as shared responsibilities for sustaining the sector's growth.
What to watch next
- Any follow-up action against hotels flagged as illegal, including notices to hoteliers like Mushtaq Ahmad Chaya
- Outcomes of the Enforcement Directorate proceedings against the nine hoteliers summoned in June
- Whether stakeholders convert the conclave's discussions into concrete action plans with timelines, as the L-G urged
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