The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to celebrate the year 2024-25 as the year of Tirch Mir, the highest peak of the province, and to start the annual Tirch Mir Festival, for which the Culture and Tourism Authority (KPCTA) has been tasked to take immediate steps. This decision was made in a meeting on tourism promotion under the chairmanship of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa CM’s Advisor on Tourism and Culture Zahid Chanzeb.
The participants while welcoming the decision of the provincial government termed it as a milestone initiative for the development of tourism and assured of their full cooperation in making this extravaganza the most successful feature of the province.
It was also decided in the meeting to waive off the mountaineering royalty and trekking fee for the year 2024-25 and to include Tirch Mir mountain in the tourism symbols of the province. Henceforth Tirchmir peak will also be tourism symbol of KP in future. It was further decided in the meeting that international mountaineers will be invited to climb the Tirch Mir peak, while the next meeting will be held in Chitral instead of Peshawar and then at other tourist district headquarters. On this occasion, the stakeholders relating to tourism industry apprised the Tourism.—APP
