Gulmarg's hotel capacity has already been increased through the addition of 500 new rooms to accommodate the expected influx of tourists from abroad. A one-day ski pass in Gulmarg will cost less than five euros. How many winter sport holidaymakers will want to travel 8000 kilometres to escape the impacts of climate change and a lack of snow in ski areas in the Alps, however, remains to be seen. Experts are concerned that visitors unused to such high altitudes could have physical problems.
Source: La Repubblica, 01.04.2005