Residents and travellers alike were amazed by the beauty of the blanket of snow, which cloaked the town in a picturesque vision of beauty. As news spread, people gathered to enjoy the first snowfall of the year. Here are some photographs shared on Instagram, capturing visions of Shimla’s snowcapped mountains and valleys!
The tourist season in Shimla (taxi for shimla from delhi) and some other places, which got a boost after the first snowfall of the year last week, providing little relief to the hotel industry, lasted for just four days.
The occupancy in hotels again witnessed a slump today as the week-end tourism boom ended and the occupancy dropped by 70 to 80 per cent. The hotel industry is now pinning hopes on the predictions of rain and snow in mid and high hills on January 29 and 30.
“With Shimla witnessing the moderate snowfall on January 23 and Republic Day on Friday, extending the weekend, there was a heavy footfall of tourists and hotels were packed to their capacity,” said president, Tourism Industry Stakeholders Association, Shimla, MK Seth, adding that, “We are hoping that the predictions of the Meteorological Department will come true and the tourist rush will increase again.”
However, locals had a harrowing time commuting in and around the city as roads were chocked due to heavy vehicular rush. Long queues were seen near Kufri on the suburbs of Shimla while major parkings that have come up on the Cart Road again proved to be major traffic bottlenecks.
The worst hit were the people crossing the lift as multiple parkings have come up in the vicinity and crossing the stretch is nothing less than a nightmare. Planners did not visualise the peril of having single entry and exit route at the parkings and vehicles waiting for entry into the parking led to a long queue of vehicles, causing traffic jams.
The tourist season in Shimla (taxi for shimla from delhi) and some other places, which got a boost after the first snowfall of the year last week, providing little relief to the hotel industry, lasted for just four days.
The occupancy in hotels again witnessed a slump today as the week-end tourism boom ended and the occupancy dropped by 70 to 80 per cent. The hotel industry is now pinning hopes on the predictions of rain and snow in mid and high hills on January 29 and 30.
“With Shimla witnessing the moderate snowfall on January 23 and Republic Day on Friday, extending the weekend, there was a heavy footfall of tourists and hotels were packed to their capacity,” said president, Tourism Industry Stakeholders Association, Shimla, MK Seth, adding that, “We are hoping that the predictions of the Meteorological Department will come true and the tourist rush will increase again.”
However, locals had a harrowing time commuting in and around the city as roads were chocked due to heavy vehicular rush. Long queues were seen near Kufri on the suburbs of Shimla while major parkings that have come up on the Cart Road again proved to be major traffic bottlenecks.
The worst hit were the people crossing the lift as multiple parkings have come up in the vicinity and crossing the stretch is nothing less than a nightmare. Planners did not visualise the peril of having single entry and exit route at the parkings and vehicles waiting for entry into the parking led to a long queue of vehicles, causing traffic jams.
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