Green public transportation on major tourist routes should be introduced, which will offer the most effective approach to sustainable tourism. Establishing a dedicated Sustainable Tourism Authority uniting tourism, environment, transport, and forest departments is essential for lasting change. Jammu and Kashmir’s mountains and glaciers are irreplaceable, and protecting them is the only reliable foundation for long-term economic success. A dedicated Sustainable Tourism Authority, uniting tourism, environment, transport, and forest departments under a single mandate, is essential for lasting and coherent change. The people of Jammu and Kashmir deserve mountains that protect them, not mountains made complicit in their destruction.