{"id":12122,"date":"2016-09-16T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T10:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/?p=12122"},"modified":"2021-03-22T16:01:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T11:01:02","slug":"record-number-of-tourists-visits-gb-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/2016\/09\/record-number-of-tourists-visits-gb-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Record number of tourists visits GB this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 696px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-12122-1\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/x-flv\" src=\"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GB-tourism-documentary-16-09-2016.flv?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GB-tourism-documentary-16-09-2016.flv\">http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GB-tourism-documentary-16-09-2016.flv<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>ISLAMABAD, Sept 16 (APP):\u00a0After the successful tourism\u00a0season at all major\u00a0tourist\u00a0spots of the country, the picturesque Jewel of Pakistan, \u201cGilgit Baltistan\u201d received record number of domestic\u00a0tourists\u00a0as around one million\u00a0tourists\u00a0visited the area from March to August 2016.<br \/>\nFor the last few years,\u00a0tourists\u00a0lost their interest in the tourism\u00a0activities due to various reasons but this year the government of\u00a0GB\u00a0remained successful in attracting people from urban areas, Punjab and Sindh with the support of local communities, improved road network and proper advertising through exhibitions.<br \/>\nThe support of local communities encouraged the tourists\u00a0to promote\u00a0tourism\u00a0and ultimately the peace in the region and the soft image created by the local people this year will go long way and\u00a0GB\u00a0is expecting to receive more\u00a0tourists\u00a0in the next year.<br \/>\nThose living in Gilgit Baltistan call it as the Jewel of Pakistan, which has the treasures of high peak, snowy mountains, fresh water lakes, lush green fairy meadows, gentle breeze, singing birds, strong legacies of art and culture and mosaic of ancient traditions.<br \/>\nGilgit-Baltistan endowed with most unique geographical feature in the world, has collection of some of the highest and precipitous peaks in the world, boasting more than 700 peaks above 6,000 meters and more than 160 peaks above 7,000 meters.<br \/>\nThis mountain wealth makes Pakistan an important mountain country as the compelling charm of these high, challenging, endless sea of rugged rock and ice pinnacles attract large number of climbers, adventure seekers and nature lovers from across the world each year.<br \/>\nThe government of Gilgit Baltistan this year engaged the people of Gilgit Baltistan in promoting\u00a0tourism activities as for past few years the inflow of the\u00a0tourists witnessed a decline, said Minister for Kashmir Affairs and\u00a0GB\u00a0and Governor\u00a0GB, Ch Muhammad Barjees Tahir.<br \/>\nLocal festivals played an important role as the government and private organizations fully participated in the festivals not only to make them successful but also promote the\u00a0tourism\u00a0business in Pakistan by making the northern areas as a safe heaven for the tourists.<br \/>\nThe people of\u00a0GB\u00a0are multilingual to facilitate the visitors in selling their local products including hand made traditional household items, precious and semi precious stones, fruits, crops, livestock, local food, arts and crafts.<br \/>\nAPP\/Cdra\/mka\/VNS Islamabad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Sept 16 (APP):\u00a0After the successful tourism\u00a0season at all major\u00a0tourist\u00a0spots of the country, the picturesque Jewel of Pakistan, \u201cGilgit Baltistan\u201d received record number of domestic\u00a0tourists\u00a0as around one million\u00a0tourists\u00a0visited the area from March to August 2016. For the last few years,\u00a0tourists\u00a0lost their interest in the tourism\u00a0activities due to various reasons but this year the government of\u00a0GB\u00a0remained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"video_url":["http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GB-tourism-documentary-16-09-2016.flv"],"featured_media_src_url":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1-79-1024x576.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12125,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12122\/revisions\/12125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}