Over 0.6m visit tourist destinations on Eid

Over 600,000 people visited seven major tourist destinations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, mostly Malakand and Hazara divisions, during five Eid holidays, said the tourism department.

The provincial government had announced holidays for the post-Ramazan festival from May 2 through May 6.

In a statement issued here on Friday, the tourism department said the tourist data collected by the police and Levies check posts, assistant commissioner’s offices, Kaghan Development Authority, Galiyat Development Authority revealed that on the first Eid day, 24,140 people visited seven tourist areas, including Upper Dir, Kalam Valley, Malam Jabba, Galiyat, Lower and Upper Chitral, and Kaghan and Naran.

According to it, 20,000 people went to Galiyat region on May 2 and 18,000 on May 3, while visitors to Kaghan and Naran totalled 7,500 on the second Eid day.