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After the flash flood in the Teesta on October 4 last year, connectivity between parts of north Sikkim in Mangan district of the Himalayan state and the Indian mainland snapped as over a dozen bridges on the river were swept away in the district
On November 20, the state tourism and civil aviation department of Sikkim came up with an advisory, citing that all other parts of the state, barring some destinations in extreme north which in Mangan district which were badly floot-hit, were now ready to welcome tourists
The Himalayan Hospitality & Tourism Development Network (HHTDN) and the Association for Conservation and Tourism (ACT) have taken such an initiative
Those associated with the tourism industry, both in north Bengal and Sikkim, said now they were focusing on the evacuation of the tourists
Tuesday night’s natural disaster has also left hundreds of tourists stranded in Sikkim. As road connectivity has virtually snapped, with only a few narrow detours open, tourists in Sikkim are frantically trying to return home