Recent natural calamities in the hills don’t appear to be a deterrent for the travel-obsessed in Bengal, who are headed to north Bengal and to the northeast, making the hilly belt a popular destination this winter.
Tour operators said that north Bengal is today popular like never before among tourists from Kolkata and around, with the traffic rising steadily by about 15% every year. This wasn’t the case, they said, until about a decade ago, when a large number of people also went to seaside destinations, including Digha and Puri. According to them, the explosion in the numbers headed to the hills came mainly after the COVID-19 pandemic.
“There are many factors behind this.
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