In 3 weeks, more people visit Tulip Garden than entire season last year

The number of people who visited the scenic Tulip Garden in the past three weeks has surpassed last year’s total visitor footfall of 1.80 lakh. The number is expected to increase as the garden will remain open to public at least till the end of this month, officials said.

The rush this season is the highest in the past three years.Officials said that 1.50 lakh people visited the garden in 2017.

   

Director floriculture KA Hafiz said that since summervacations are beginning in several states of the country, more tourists areexpected to visit the garden.

“With robust promotion of the garden we expect the footfallto further increase. Whether the garden will remain open beyond April depend onweather and the bloom,” said Hafiz. About 1.2 million tulips of 50 varietieshave bloomed in the 360-kanal garden. Besides tourists from Maharashtra,Gujarat, Karnataka and some other states, a large number of locals are alsovisiting the Tulip garden, he said.

“A large number of visitors from Thailand and Malaysia havealso visited the garden which sends across a positive message globally. Peopleof all age groups indulge in clicking selfies and take back colourful memoriesfrom here,” he said.

Tourism players have also expressed optimism over theincreased influx of  people visiting theTulip Garden.  They said the main aim ofthe garden is to bring forward to April the tourist season of Kashmir thatusually begins from May

“This helps the tourism sector. The response has beenoverwhelming from both locals and tourists. Care is taken about comfort andconvenience of visitors coming to the garden,” said director tourism KashmirNisar Ahmad Wani.

In order to woo more tourists, a musical festival wasorganized at the garden during last few days. Illumination of the Tulip Gardenhelping tourists to Tulip garden during evening hours has also been a success,officials said.

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