UK Foreign Office lifts warning on travel to Kashmir's “Venice of the East”


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A boost of tourism would be welcomed in the region, but the relaxed travel advisory warns travelers that visits outside these main tourist areas should be taken at their own risk.

The Foreign Office has lifted its warning against travel to Jammu and Srinagar, in northern India. Although the region has been plagued by violence in recent years, there have been no recent reports of attacks on visitors to the two cities or on the highway that connects them. "Improvements in the se