Year-end travellers give Rajasthan tourism sector reason to cheer

It has been a "golden" Christmas-New Year week for Rajasthan's tourism sector, with hotels and resorts packed with visitors and the hospitality industry expecting high revenues, mitigating some of the losses it suffered due to Covid.

The footfall of tourists in the state is the highest after the pandemic that broke out in 2020 and affected the sector in 2021 also. This time, with Covid-induced restrictions lifted, business is back on track, people associated with the tourism and hotel industry said.

The flow of domestic travellers has been more than foreigners across cities such as Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur and Jaisalmer with people thronging sites of historical importance and national parks, they said.

There are around 1,200 registered hotels in state capital Jaipur and most said they are booked, some even after charging inflated room tariffs.

From Christmas eve, the last one week has been very busy for the travel trade in the state, tour operators said. The tourism season in ...