However, there were reports of other tourists making cancellations and quickly checking out of their hotels to head home. Even though Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje denied this on Wednesday, travel agents and hoteliers said they were already feeling the pinch.

“Six of our guests cancelled their bookings at Golden Hotel on Wednesday, nine cancelled at Country Inn, and Jaipur Palace lost two bookings,” said Mohan Singh, manager of Rajasthan Tours Pvt Ltd. “There must be around 200 to 250 hotels, including budget hotels here in Jaipur and its outskirts. I have worked as a tour operator here for the past 33 years... and this is the most empty that Jaipur has ever been of tourists,” claimed Padam Singh, manager of Amber Tour and Travels.

Ravi Dua, a tourist from Delhi who arrived in Jaipur on the day of the blast, is also eager to leave. “We are not scared because everything is normal now. But if there is curfew in the city and we cannot travel anywhere, what is the point of staying here? We will see the Pink City later,” he said.

Tourist attractions which are usually quite crowded with foreigners were deserted. However, some local shopkeepers and tourists pointed out that part of the lull was due to the fact that it was off-season — around this time of the year, the average number of tourists visiting per day is 500 to 800, while between winter and March, about 2,000 people visit the monuments of Jaipur everyday.