Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation Ltd (HPTDC) recently announced a special discount for female guests in its hotels. An additional discount of ten per cent on accommodation, over and above the prevailing off-season discount, ranging from 20 to 30 per cent, depending on the property, will be offered to women, Subhasish Panda, Managing Director, HPTDC,

The tourist season has finally picked up in Himachal Pradesh. Enquiries from various tour operators in the area revealed that all hotels in the area were jam-packed. Traffic jams on the Dharamsala-McLeodganj road were also an illustration to the fact. A large number of ‘walk-in tourists’ had to return from McLeodganj as they could not find rooms. Prem Sood, a hotelier, said the tourist season had picked up in McLeodganj only in the past few days. However,

The Himachal Pradesh government yesterday announced a ten-year tax holiday for all new hotel projects coming up in the state’s tribal districts and other remote areas. The upcoming hotels will not be charged any luxury tax under the HP Tax on Luxuries (Hotels and Lodging Houses) Act, 1979 and the ten-year period will be calculated from the date they begin operations.

The Dharamshala-Triund ropeway project had been hanging fire due to low tourist inflow in Kangra district, according to a Times of India report. The tourism department has now proposed a new starting point for the said project. Tourism and Civil Aviation Department stated in a statement issued recently that the tenders for the Dharamshala-Triund ropeway project were invited twice in 2009 and 2010 but no one responded to the tenders within the prescribed time period.