The world-famous Khajuraho Temple's city airport has witnessed a 9.5 per cent decline in the number of travellers in the first 10 months of the current fiscal due to poor air connectivity, according to an Airport Authority of India (AAI) report.
Khajuraho airport, located in the Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh, witnessed a total of 40,400 passengers travelling between April 2017 and January 2018, compared with 44,664 in the same year-ago period, the report said.
"Air India and Jet Airways run flights from Delhi and other few cities to Khajuraho and vice versa. The air fare to Khajuraho was too costly," MP State Tourism Development Corporation regional manager Moncy Joseph told PTI.
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He said that visitors flock to Khajuraho between September and April, following which the flight service temporarily halted. As a result, tourists including foreigners face a lot of hardship.
Joseph said that maximum tourists visiting Khajuraho were from Ahmedabad and Kolkata - the cities which are not directly connected to the temple city.
"The tourists flow has lessened in Khajuraho following poor air connectivity," Travel Agents Association of India's Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh (MP-CG) unit's secretary, Hemendra Singh Jadoun told PTI today.
In order to increase the tourist inflow, Khajuraho should have air connectivity with all the main cities of the country, he said.
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