Jammu, March 4 -- The Jammu & Kashmir Government on Tuesday informed the Legislative Assembly that 4. 48 crore tourists, including 1.20 lakh foreigners, visited J&K during the past two years.

In a written reply to a question MLA Eidgah, Mubarak Gul, as per news agency-Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Minister in-charge Tourism, Omar Abdullah informed the House that 2. 12 crore tourists visited J&K in 2023 and 2.36 crore in 2024.

Of them, 55337 foreign tourists visited J&K in 2023 and 65452 in 2024, the minister said.

He said that 2.11 crore domestic tourists visited J&K in 2023 and 2.35 crore in 2024.

The government disclosed that Rs 35.08 crore have been spent for promotion, advertisement and allied activities by the Department of Touris...