{"id":2023,"date":"2022-06-29T23:52:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T23:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/06\/29\/mahabaleshwar-indias-fragile-hill-states-choke-under-tourist-rush\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T23:52:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T23:52:36","slug":"mahabaleshwar-indias-fragile-hill-states-choke-under-tourist-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=2023","title":{"rendered":"Mahabaleshwar: India\u2019s fragile hill states choke under tourist rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Tourism is picking up again in India after a lull caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">For holidaymakers, the cool weather and scenic beauty of India\u2019s hill and mountain retreats &#8211; from Mahabaleshwar in the west to Ooty in the south &#8211;  have always been a big draw. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">For locals, the rush of tourists means a boost to their incomes &#8211; much needed after the devastation caused by the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">But the surge is acting as a double-edged sword for the ecologically fragile holiday spots &#8211; which are buckling under the strain of traffic, excess waste and unbridled construction. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Reporting by Nikhil Inamdar; shot and edited by Vishnu Vardhan; produced by Ayushi Shah<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-61976839?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Tourism is picking up again in India after a lull caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. For holidaymakers, the cool weather and scenic beauty of India\u2019s hill and mountain retreats &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}