Srinagar, Dec. 13 -- Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said the continued closure of several tourist destinations in Jammu and Kashmir after the Pahalgam attack is hurting livelihoods and damaging the region's image, and called for an urgent review of the decision, saying such steps contradict official claims of normalcy.

Addressing a press conference at Gulmarg, Omar said decisions to close tourist destinations are taken without consulting elected government.

He said if he had been part of the decision-making process, destinations would have been reopened by now, adding that Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed far worse situations in the past.

Referring to the post-1996 period, the Chief Minister said tourism had resumed despite di...