In view of the developing situation as cutlined above, a meeting was convened on 23rd July 2015 at Leh under the chairmanship of the Chairman/Chief Executive Councilor, Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) Leh, along with all the religious, political leaders, different stakeholders of Tourist trade societies and transporters of Leh district.
That employment and investment opportunities provide the tourism industry to the local people of Ladakh shall be protected from exploitation by outsiders in any form.
That the efforts made by the local tourist traders and service providers in preservation of cultural heritage and environment of the tourist destination will be improved and re-doubled.
That any influx of tourist service providers, especially tourist transport services form outside Ladakh ( Self –Drive vehicles, Commercial passenger vehicles such as taxis/mini buses, motorbikes hired from outside outlets) for exploitation of the tourist business by depriving the locals from this resource base shall be discouraged and stopped.
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Important! Notice for all travel agents and drivers.
We want to warn you against a company in Manali called
They have been duping travel agents and taxi drivers for a long time. They
havent paid
huge amount of money to many drivers and travel agents. And when our union asked them to pay their dues they challenged us
do whatever we can and
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