With a large number of trip and ticket cancellations for Kashmir, tourism professionals and officials say the region is now staring at massive losses over the next few months. “There has already been a 25 per cent drop in the 80 per cent of bookings that had been secured.

In the future, we will refrain from taking bookings for Kashmir,’ said Akash Kundu, the owner of Kolkata-based Explore India travel agency

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the gunmen behind a terrorist attack on tourists in the Kashmir region "will not be spared!"