Overview
- Gulmarg and Sonamarg reported full occupancy for New Year’s Eve, with planned cultural programmes, musical shows and night skiing drawing large turnouts.
- Police and paramilitary forces expanded checkpoints, intensified patrolling and used facial-recognition screening at Pahalgam to keep celebrations incident-free.
- Officials reported roughly 5,000 tourist arrivals per day in the past week, indicating a return to pre-April flow at key sites.
- Tourism totals for 2025 reached about 10.47 lakh domestic visitors versus roughly 26 lakh in 2024, underscoring a recovery still short of last year.
- Fresh snowfall in higher reaches over the past day contrasted with rain in the plains, keeping Gulmarg, Sonamarg and Pahalgam busy through New Year festivities.