Confusion
reigns as officialdom keeps changing entry protocols
for tourists as peak season begins : Different
agencies have different quarantine rules. The
beleaguered tourism industry worries the season
may be over before the government gets its act
together, by Sangam Prasain (kp 03/03/2021) [The whole world is more or less in
lockdown. Where shall foreign tourists come from?]
Slight
Improvement In Tourist Arrival (rn 02/03/2021), 18,000
foreigners visit Nepal in past two months (kh
02/03/2021)
It’s
almost spring, but tourism industry is already
staring at a dry season : Travel trade organisations
warn of street protests if officials fail to take
immediate measures to revive tourism sector
which was hit the hardest by Covid-19 last year,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 23/02/2021), Tourism
stakeholders urge govt to relax health safety
protocols (ht 23/02/2021)
DoT
to provide star rating to all hotels, resorts, lodges
(ht 20/02/2021)
‘Political
instability affecting tourism projects’ (ht
19/02/2021)
New
trekking route to Kanchanjunga (kh 13/02/2021)
Trekking
entrepreneurs in search of new trekking trails, by
Santosh Pokharel (rep 07/02/2021)
Visitors
flock to Kupinde lake as it reopens after Covid-19
closure : The local government plans to build new
infrastructure to attract more tourists in the future,
by Biplab Maharjan (kp 04/02/2021)
Increasing
tourist arrivals raise recovery hopes, by Arpane
Ale Magar (ht 04/02/2021) [???],
Good
start : The country's tattered tourism industry will
not return even to breakeven point unless foreigners
start coming here in large numbers (ht 05/02/2021)
Tourism
Regains Momentum, by Namrata Sharma (rn
03/02/2021)
Need
To Promote Mountain Tourism, by Khilendra Basnyat
(rn 02/02/2021)
Nepal
to allow unrestricted entry to vaccinated tourists :
The move is intended to boost the morale of the
moribund tourism industry ahead of the spring peak
season, by Sangam Prasain (kp 30/01/2021)
Nepal
hopes for tourism rebound in 2021 : A lot depends on
vaccines, arrival quarantine rules, and ease of
getting visas (nt 29/01/2021) [Forget
this dream: The world is not ready for tourism
revival, yet!]
Nepal
lifts travel restriction to and from the UK, returnees
must quarantine themselves in hotels after arrival
(rep 29/01/2021)
Hotel
industry prepares for a long recession : It is
doubtful when tourists will come back to Nepal despite
the vaccination drive, insiders say, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 28/01/2021)
Hotel
operators to pay minimum amount while staffers
continue to stay home, by Muna Sunuwar (rep
27/01/2021)
Come
one, come all: Everest region is calling tourists :
The local administration has removed all
Covid-19-related requirements including test report
and quarantine for visitors, by Sangam Prasain (kp
25/01/2021)
Rs
3.36 billion investment in tourism sector during
pandemic (ht 23/01/2021)
NTB,
tourism entrepreneurs suggest resumption of
visa-on-arrival service for tourists (rep
19/01/2021)
International
events: Investment for tourism growth, by Jinesh
Sindurakar (ht 15/01/2021)
Haphazard
road construction posing threat to trekking routes
(ht 14/01/2021), Don’t
ruin treks : While roads are needed for development,
it is important to see that it does not kill the goose
that lays the golden eggs (ht 15/01/2021)
‘Refinancing
not being effectively implemented for tourism
industry’ (ht 12/01/2021)
Pokhara
tourism looks beyond thecoronavirus pandemic :
Upcoming international airport sets off a flurry
of construction of tourism and adventure
facilities, by Sangam Prasain (kp 10/01/2021)
Survive,
revive, thrive : How Nepal’s tourism industry can be
re-invented to really lift the country’s under-served
areas (nt 08/01/2021)
Many
hotels face closure with no tourists coming : Hotels
are fighting for their lives and plan to implement a
‘no work, no pay’ system to stay afloat, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 05/01/2021)
2020
was the worst year for tourism since 1986 : The
industry has pinned its hopes on the vaccine but is
now worried about political instability with the House
dissolution and polls announced for this spring,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 04/01/2021)
Nepal’s
tourism entrepreneurs expect a New Year boost, by
Sunita Karki (ae 01/01/2021)
Nepali
tourism in crisis, by Dinkar Nepal (ae 01/01/2021)
Tourism
entrepreneurs demand opening of tourist areas in
Mustang (rep 29/12/2020)
Tourism
as a driver of local economies, by Bhadra Sharma
(Record 24/12/2020)
Nepal’s
star-rated hotels start laying off workers (ht
23/12/2020)
Annapurna
Hotel to close its doors indefinitely : The hotel’s
closure highlights the deep trouble in the tourism
industry, insiders say. The hospitality industry has
been among the hardest hit by Covid, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 22/12/2020), Hotel
Annapurna falls victim to COVID crisis (ht
22/12/2020)
The
domestic tourism sector is growing—but so is its
litter : As more and more Nepalis travel within the
country, tourism stakeholders and environmentalists
say that it’s important for tourists to travel
responsibly and be mindful of the impact they have on
the destinations they travel to, by Tsering Ngodup
Lama (kp 21/12/2020)
Tourist
visas now open for Nepal : Restrictions on foreigners
further eased and flights to India resume, but
confusion persists (nt 18/12/2020)
Attractive
Land For Holiday Makers, by Ram Dayal Rakesh (rn
18/12/2020)
Conflict-time
campaign resurrected to revive Pokhara, by
Krishnamani Baral (ae 18/12/2020)
Five-star
hotels report plunging profits in fourth quarter
because of lockdown : The tourism industry bore the
brunt of the lockdown that lasted from March to July,
insiders say, by Sangam Prasain (kp 17/12/2020)
Nepal
reopens to tourists coming by air, land borders still
closed : Trekkers and mountaineers have been entering
the country since October, by Sangam Prasain (kp
14/12/2020)
Tourism
revival unlikely in Nepal till foreign visitors return
(ht 12/12/2020)
Tourism
in key tiger reserves : Involve local communities,
by Babu R Bhattarai (ht 08/12/2020)
Focus
on domestic travellers during the pandemic makes
tourism sector rethink its clientele baseNepalis
started travelling within their country in numbers
after the insurgency and this trend has been growing.
But officials and entrepreneurs need to do more,
experts say, by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp
06/12/2020)
Preparation
Afoot To Operate Maurice Herzog Trail (rn
06/12/2020)
Everest
Trail repaired during pandemic : Made jobless during
the Covid-19 crisis, Sherpa communities have cleaned
and upgraded trekking facilities, by Ang Rita
Sherpa (nt 04/12/2020)
More
than 200,000 tourists arrived over last 11 months
(ht 04/12/2020)
Minister
Bhattarai pledges to make Simikot Airport a tourist
gateway to Manasarovar (rep 01/12/2020)
'Visit
Sauraha Campaign' To Attract Tourists In Sauraha
(rn 29/11/2020)
Govt
gearing up to relax visa rules for foreign tourists
(ht 26/11/2020)
New
tourist spot in Tanahun lacks needed infrastructure,
by Samjhana Rasaili (kp 19/11/2020)
MoCTCA
begins preparations for resuming tourist activities
(ht 19/11/2020)
Tourism
still top attraction forforeign investors despite
crisis : Hotels, resorts and restaurants accounted for
two-thirds of the investment pledges, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 13/11/2020)
Rara
Lake sees signs of rebounce with domestic tourists
(kh 13/11/2020)
Tourism
Bounces Back, by Birendra Madai (ht 09/11/2020)
218,173
foreign tourists arrive in 10 months (ht
06/11/2020)
Holidaying
amid pandemic : We must tread with extreme
precautions if we want to pursue our wanderlust
(kp 03/11/2020)
Domestic
tourism in the festive season provides some succour
for the industry : With no foreign tourists, only 25
percent of restaurants in Pokhara are operating
while in Chitwan footfalls are only a third of
previous years, service providers say, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 02/11/2020)
Government
preparing to open tourism sector (ht 02/11/2020),
Tourism
has the blues : As for now, the government should
focus on controlling the virus so that another
lockdown will not be necessary (ht 02/11/2020)
COVID
puts a damper on country’s tourism sector (ht
01/11/2020)
Domestic
Tourists Flock In Pokhara To Fly, Fare For Paragliding
Halved (rn 01/11/2020)
Everest
Trail reopens, but cautiously : Nepali hikers have
returned to Khumbu, but Covid-free Sherpas do not want
virus in their valley, by Surendra Phuyal (nt
30/10/2020)
Daregauda,
A New Tourist Destination In Baglung, by Nabin
Sishir BK (rn 30/10/2020)
Lakeside,
Pokhara’s tourist business hub, is a silent town now,
by Santosh Pokharel (rep 18/10/2020)
Bardiya
National Park reopens for tourists (kh 18/10/2020)
Popular
tourist spot Ghandruk shut down indefinitely amid
COVID-19 threats, by Santosh Pokharel (rep
16/10/2020)
Nepal
still tepid about reopening for foreign tourists as
virus cases continue to rise : Scenario does not look
good for the tourism sector as the government once
again pushes back the date for welcoming foreign
tourists, industry insiders say, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 14/10/2020)
Massive
demand for central bank’s refinance facility from
pandemic-hit sectors : Tourism entrepreneurs have been
at the forefront in applying for the Rs200 billion
facility, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 12/10/2020)
Nepal
to waive off quarantine rules for tourists (kh
10/10/2020)
To
boost local tourism, hotels launch attractive
dealsWith the festive season around the corner, almost
every leading hotel in the country has announced stay
packages specially designed for the domestic market,
by Tswering Ngodup Lama (kp 09/10/2020) [Which
festive season in times of pandemic?]
Sauraha
elephant keepers hope cooperative model will save
pandemic-hit safari businessOwners of privately-owned
elephants agree to look after the animals together and
share the safari income, by Chandan Kumar Mandal
(kp08/10/2020)
Porters
hopeful autumn trekking season will bring some
financial reliefAs the country is slated to welcome
foreign trekkers from October 17, porters are hoping
that the move will bring much-needed jobs—and money,
by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp 07/10/2020) [Dream
on in this world of extremely rising Corona cases!]
Nepal
government to waive off seven-day quarantine for
tourists (ht 02/10/2020), Nepal
to waive off 7-day quarantine for tourists (kh
03/10/2020)
Pandemic
and Visit Nepal - 2020 : Time for retrospection,
by Devendra Nath Gongal (ht 02/10/2020)
Trekking
in the mountains during a pandemic : While the rest of
the country was under lockdown, the Ghumante team, a
group of travel enthusiasts, was exploring new
trails in a bid to promote monsoon trekking, by
Shashwat Pant (kp 30/09/2020)
Govt
to provide on-arrival visa to tourists, 7-day
mandatory quarantine (kh 29/09/2020), Seven-day
quarantine set for foreign adventure seekers :
Mountaineering and trekking agencies criticised the
latest guidelines as being ‘harsh’ which would
discourage travellers from visiting Nepal, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 30/09/2020) [Not
many will come either, but hardly any potential
tourist can afford to stay one week in quarantine
before going on trek!], Quarantine
‘could deter tourists’ (ht 30/09/2020), Tourists
required to get pre-approval from immigration before
entering Nepal (rep 30/09/2020), Review
the provision : No foreign tourist will visit Nepal
when one has to stay in hotel quarantine for one week
before setting out for trekking or mountaineering
(ht 01/10/2020), Tourism
task force opposes one-week quarantine rule for
tourists (ht 01/10/2020)
Having
suffered heavy losses, national parks hope to make up
with reopening : With onset of autumn, they are ready
to welcome visitors and are banking on domestic
tourists in the festival holidays, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 27/09/2020)
Turning
villages into tourist hotspots : A shift towards rural
destinations holds the key to post-lockdown tourism
revival, by Sunil Sharma (kp 27/09/2020)
Tourism
in Pokhara reviving after six months (kh
27/09/2020)
Tourism
Recovery Task Force launched (ht 27/09/2020)
Hard-hit
tourism industry looks to Nepali adventure seekers for
succour : Tourism Ministry is preparing to present a
proposal to the Cabinet to implement a two-day weekend
to encourage travel, by Sangam Prasain (kp
26/09/2020)
713
proposals submitted for joint infrastructure
development to MoCTCA (ht 26/09/2020)
Local
Levels In Kavre, Solu Take Initiatives To Develop
Homestay (rn 26/09/2020)
With
no lockdown, Valley denizens find a new favourite
activity—hikingThis rise in the popularity of hiking
has served as a shot in the arm for small restaurants
and shops located on the hiking trails, by Tsering
Ngodup Lama (kp 25/09/2020)
Tourism
ministry for two-day holiday per week to promote
domestic tourism (rep 25/09/2020)
COVID-19
incurs loss of Rs 60 bln in tourism sector: Minister
Bhattarai (kh 21/09/2020)
Tiger
Palace Casino Resort lays off 393 employees : Silver
Heritage Group, the operator of the resort which came
into operation in 2018, is facing financial distress
with no income since March, by Amrita Anmol (kp
19/09/2020)
200,000
tourists visit Nepal in last eight months (kh
13/09/2020)
Homestay
operators turn to farming after tourism fades : The
pandemic has wiped out small businesses, the backbone
of the country’s economy, by Madhu Shahi (kp
09/09/2020)
‘Need
to tackle fear and uncertainty’ : Right time to
prepare for post-pandemic activities, say tourism
stakeholders (ht 08/09/2020)
With
no clear plan, Nepal may remain closed for tourists
until 2020-end : With the festival season approaching
and a large number of Nepalis, including migrant
workers, expected to return home, officials say it
will be difficult to manage tourists., by Sangam
Prasain (kp 02/09/2020)
COVID
impact on religious tourism in Nepal overlooked,
by Arpana Ale Magar (ht 01/09/2020)
Coronavirus
cuts foreign currency earnings from tourism by 19
percent in 2019-20, a report says : According to the
central bank, revenues shrank to Rs 60.88 billion in
2019-20 that ended mid-July, a year-on-year loss of
nearly Rs 15 billion, by Sangam Prasain (kp
27/08/2020)
Preparation
on to operate homestay mixing Hindu and Kirant
cultures in Halesi (kh 27/08/2020)
Mandatory
quarantine: A killer or tourism saviour in new normal,
by Sitaram Dahal (ht 18/08/2020)
COVID-19
and its effect on Nepal’s mountain tourism, by
Jinesh Sindurakar (ht 16/08/2020)
Stranded
visitors want to stay on in Nepal: Tourists still
stuck in Nepal want the government to extend their
visas till December, by Sonia Awale (nt
14/08/2020)
Nepal’s
battered mountaineering tourism’s autumn hopes are
fading fast amid rise in Covid-19 cases: Industry
insiders say the fate of the upcoming climbing season
rests on what approach the government takes to welcome
tourists, by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp 13/08/2020)
Nepal
Tourism Board scales back budget by 75 percent as
revenue streams disappear: The board has cancelled all
promotional activities in overseas markets, and
spending on branding and marketing, officials said.,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 10/08/2020)
Religious,
Tourism Spots Open After Four Months, by Tikaram
Upreti (rn 04/08/2020)
Preparations
for autumn tourist season begin amid the pandemic but
challenges remain: A dedicated PCR test centre at the
airport giving reports within hours is a must to avoid
mandatory quarantine obligations, industry insiders
say, by Sangam Prasain (kp 31/07/2020)
Jungle
resorts in Chitwan to reopen today amid strict safety
protocols: Elephant rides, jeep safaris and canoe
tours will resume in Bagmara and Kumroj buffer zone
community forests, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
30/07/2020)
Hotels
And Restaurants Start Their Service From Today (rn
30/07/2020)
Homestay
operators in dilemma whether to welcome tourists as
COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 31/07/2020)
Trekking
guides dissatisfied with new tourism act (ht
29/07/2020)
Government
decision to open tourism takes the sector by surprise:
Entrepreneurs say much needs to be done including
provision to conduct PCR tests of visitors at airport
to build confidence in them, by Sangam Prasain (kp
23/07/2020), Prepare
plans to resume tourism activities, says MoCTCA
(ht 23/07/2020)
Mountain
guides hope autumn season brings relief, by Arpana
Ale Magar (28/07/2020)
Hotel
Association unveils uniform payout structure amid
virus crisis: The new pay structure is applicable from
April 13 to December 31, by Sangam Prasain (kp
20/07/2020)
Bhaktapur
opens six tourist centers to engage workers in
cleaning and beautification works: Works are underway
in the ancient city to attract tourists after the
pandemic is over, by Anup Ojha (p 17/07/2020)
Hotels
in Pokhara close down as virus wipes out tourism:
According to the Western Region Hotel Association, 70
tourist-standard hotels have shut down completely,
by Deepak Pariyar (kp 15/07/2020)
Tourism
In Trouble, by Dixya Poudel (rn 15/07/2020)
Bijay
Amatya: This pandemic is unlike any challenge the
tourism industry has seen: Kora Tours CEO Bijay Amatya
talks about what the future of Nepal’s tourism
industry looks like, interview by Tsering Ngodup
Lama (kp 10/07/2020)
After
a painful spring, Nepal’s tourism is looking at a
worse autumn: The tourism board has requested the
government to reopen the country for foreigners from
August 1, so that the industry can start advance
bookings for autumn, by Sangam Prasain (kp
09/07/2020)
COVID-19’S
Adverse Impact On Tourism, by Saphalta Shrestha
(rn 07/07/2020)
Former
Visit Nepal secretariat seeks more budget from Tourism
Ministry (ht 04/07/2020)
Tourism
infrastructure development continues (ht
04/07/2020)
DoI
not to charge any fee on tourist visa (ht
17/06/2020)
With
no end to the pandemic in sight and no roadmap for
recovery, the tourism sector looks at a prolonged
slump: Tourism entrepreneurs had high hopes from
government but have so far been disappointed at the
lack of a plan for sector, by Sangam Prasain (kp
15/06/2020)
TGAN
urges MoCTCA to ensure jobs for trekking guides
(ht 15/06/2020)
Revisiting
Visit Nepal 2020: Nepali art, literature and music
must be promoted alongside mountain tourism, by
Shreya Gyawali (kp 08/06/2020)
Hotel
Association Nepal expresses dissatisfaction (ht
02/06/2020)
Govt
provides 20 percent exemption in income tax for
tourism entrepreneurs (kh 28/05/2020) [This
means that they have to pay 0 Rs. income tax for 0 Rs.
income! Great help!!]
Hotel
industry pleads for bailout after being brought to its
knees: Tourism sector insiders do not expect things to
stabilise for another two years even after the
lockdown ends, by Sangam Prasain (kp 27/05/2020)
Almost
5,000 tourists still stranded in Nepal (rep
23/05/2020)
Forty-four
tourists from 12 countries staying at ACAP area: The
tourists who have chosen to stay back are spread
around Chhingur, Jomson, Jharkot, Ghasa, Pisang,
Ngawal, Taal and Dhampus, among other places, by
Aash Gurung (kp 19/05/2020)
Give
financial support to tourism sector: NTB (ht
19/05/2020)
Nepal
Tourism Board seeks Rs 20 billion fund to pay
furloughed workers: The government will pay at least
30 percent of the salary under the proposed scheme,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 18/05/2020), NTB
recommends establishment of retention fund worth Rs 20
billion (ht 18/05/2020)
NTB
to focus on branding Nepal during recovery (ht
10/05/2020) [Which recovery?
Forget at least 2020 completely!]
Empty
trails and deserted villages: the pandemic brings the
mountain economy to a standstill: During the spring
trekking season, mountain trails would have been
teeming with tourists, but this year, Covid-19 has
turned these trails ghostly and desolate, by
Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp 08/05/2020)
Government,
hotel leaders at odds over employees future: Hotels
have decided to send employees home and will be paying
them partially amid the pandemic, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 08/05/2020)
Divert
Consumption To Revive Tourism, by Kamal Parajuli
(rn 06/05/2020)
Provide
discount on income tax to encourage domestic travel,
urges NTB (ht 05/05/2020)
Workers’
unions refuse to obey HAN’s decision (ht
05/05/2020), Hoteliers
agree to pay their staff for Chaitra but yet to decide
about coming months: Trade unions want government to
enforce its decision on wages for workers, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 06/05/2020)
Hotels
to stay shut till mid-November: HAN (ht
04/05/2020), Hotels
decide to cut their losses by remaining shuttered for
six months: Even if the lockdown is lifted, the
tourism industry will take time to recover, an
official said, by Sangam Prasain (kp 05/05/2020)
Sauraha
hotels to remain closed till Dashain even if lockdown
ends (kh 03/05/2020)
With
tourists staying home, homestays have no business: The
pandemic and the lockdown could lead to a collapse of
homestays that have provided communities with economic
support and a sense of identity, by Elisha
Shrestha (kp 29/04/2020)
‘VN
2020 budget should be utilised to promote domestic
tourism’ (ht 29/04/2020)
TGAN
welcomes decision to provide alternative jobs (ht
26/04/2020)
TAAN
seeks extension of renewal deadline (ht
25/04/2020)
Hotel
Industry Income To Be Slashed By 90 Per Cent-HAN
(rn 24/04/2020), Hoteliers
seek government support (ht 24/04/2020)
“Survive
2020, revive in 2021 and thrive in 2022”: Nepal’s
tourism industry is hunkering down to tide over the
crisis, by Alisha Sijapati (nt 24/04/2020)
Virtual
tours: Travelling in the time of Covid-19: Saurav
Dhakal, the founder and curator of StoryCycle, on the
importance of effective storytelling and how his
organisation is making use of technology to offer
virtual tours for a society under lockdown, by
Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp 24/04/2020)
Sherpas
rendered jobless by lockdown to be hired to clean up
trekking trails: Hiking trails on the Kathmandu Valley
rim like Shivapuri, Dakshinkali and Nagarkot will be
connected, by Sangam Prasain (kp 23/04/2020)
Tourism
stakeholders seek sustainable plan: Rs 160 billion
loss estimated in tourism industry (ht 21/04/2020)
Many
foreigners still stuck in Kathmandu: Some await
repatriation flights, others staying back on their
will , by Arpana Ale Magar (ht 20/04/2020)
Tourism
after the virus: The government might carry out tests
for the entire village when homestays are reoffered,
by Kalyan Bhandari (kp 20/04/2020) [Nepal
should be aware that it may take a long time until
tourists from the heavily affected foreign counties
return to Nepal in greater numbers!]
110
Russians evacuated from Nepal (rep 20/04/2020)
TAAN
urges NTB to utilise TIMS fund (ht 19/04/2020)
NTB survey to evaluate
COVID-19 impact (ht 15/04/2020) [???
Probably you will find out that there is absolutely no
tourism in Nepal because of COLVID-19!]
Climate
Conservation Key To Ecotourism, by Babu Khanal (rn
14/04/2020)
204
more stranded tourists repatriated (ht 12/04/2020)
Repatriation
flights continue (ht 09/04/2020)
Around
800 tourists evacuated on four flights from Kathmandu,
by Arpana Ale Magar (ht 05/04/2020)
VNY
2020 campaign formally canceled (rep 01/04/2020)
Nepal
Airlines permitted to fly to Brisbane to repatriate
Australian citizens; A Qatar Airways flight chartered
by US embassy takes 300 American citizens back home,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 31/03/2020)
All
stranded tourists taken care of, claims NTB (ht
31/03/2020)
Trekking
guides unhappy with late rescue (ht 31/03/2020)
Rescue
flights continue on Saturday (ht 29/03/2020), Tourists
reluctant to go back home, by Santosh Pokharel
(rep 29/03/2020), NTB
rescues 158 stranded tourists, guides from Lukla
(ht 30/03/2020), 1255
Stranded Tourists, Guides Rescued, by CK Khanal
(rn 30/03/2020)
German
govt evacuates 305 German nationals, by Arpana Ale
Magar (kp 28/03/2020)
Stranded
tourists flown off Mount Everest (rep 28/03/2020),
Tourists
stranded in Annapurna and Manaslu conservation area
rescued and sent to Pokhara and Kathmandu: Local
administration still searching for other trekkers in
the area, by Hariram Upreti and Aash Gurung (kp
28/03/2020)
137
foreigners stranded on trekking trails rescued in two
days: Eight foreigners and 11 Nepalis returning from
Kanchanjunga stranded at Sankhuwasabha, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 27/03/2020)
Despite
a significant number of rescues, 300 trekkers remain
stranded in various trekking routes: As Nepal remains
under lockdown, many trekkers have been unable to
return to Kathmandu, by Sangam Prasain (kp
26/03/2020)
10,000
foreign nationals stranded in Nepal (ht
23/03/2020)
TAAN
issues directive to halt all trekking activities
(ht 21/03/2020), NTB
suspends issuance of TIMS card until further notice
(rep 21/03/2020)
Star
hotels set to shut up shop: Hyatt to close for six
weeks: tomorrow, others to follow suit, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 20/03/2020)
Foreigners
not complying with mandatory self-quarantine measures:
Govt to start tracking visitors staying in hotels from
today (ht 20/03/2020)
Government
asks hotels to furnish details of guests online
(rep 19/03/2020)
Restaurants
and bars in Thamel are looking at staff layoffs and
ultimately, a shutdown: The Covid-19 pandemic has
emptied Thamel of foreign visitors, who form the
primary customer base for the tourist hub’s hundreds
of restaurants and bars, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 17/03/2020)
Confronted
with near-collapse, tourism industry looks inwards:
Foreign tourist arrivals are expected to halt
completely this week, leading hotels and airlines to
look to attract domestic tourists with cut-rate prices,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 16/03/2020)
Bad
roads, coronavirus fears take toll on tourism in
Karnali, by Dhan Bahadur Budha (rep 16/03/2020)
‘Hospitality
sector to be hit entire year’, by Arpana Ale Magar
(ht 15/03/2020)
Suspension
of climbing permits and on-arrival visas entails
losses of thousands of jobs and millions of dollars:
The hardest hit sectors of the economy are tourism and
aviation, which were already reeling from reduced
number of visitors and passengers due to the Covid-19
outbreak, by Sangam Prasain and Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 14/03/2020)
Contagion
scare bleeds tourism sector in Pokhara, by Rup
Narayan Dhakal (ht 14/03/2020)
Nepal
government puts all tourist visas on hold and cancels
all spring climbing expeditions: The visa suspension
will begin March 14 and last until the end of April,
depriving Nepal of millions in Everest climbing fees,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 13/03/2020), On-arrival
visas scrapped till April 30 (ht 14/03/2020), Government
suspends visa-on-arrival for all nationalities
(rep 14/03/2020)
Coronavirus
hits Chitwan tourism hard, by Surya Prakash Kandel
(rep 13/03/2020)
Pandemic
and the Nepali tourism industry: In the absence of
appropriate strategies to reach new markets, Nepal
faces a massive challenge, by Chandra P. Bhattarai
(kp 13/03/2020)
Coronavirus
impacts Sauraha hoteliers (ht 12/03/2020)
Lumbini’s
tourism hit hard amid novel coronavirus scare: The
city saw a number of tourism events cancelled over the
week amid Covid-19 concerns, causing worry among
tourism entrepreneurs, by Manoj Poudel (kp
10/03/2020)
Businesses
in Thamel catch a chill after Covid-19 scares off
foreign tourists: Tourist arrivals by air to Nepal
dropped 21 percent year-on-year in February to 77,064
individuals, according to the Department of
Immigration, by Himendra Mohan Kumar (kp
09/03/2020)
Tourism
entrepreneurs ask for 50% waiver in taxes (rep
08/03/2020)
Confusion
reigns over the Visit Nepal campaign with no clear
statement from the government regarding its fate:
Despite the prime minister’s directive to postpone the
tourism campaign, the Tourism Ministry and Nepal
Tourism Board have conflicting takes, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 06/03/2020)
(Don’t)
Visit Nepal 2020, by Guffadi (rep 06/03/2020)
Average
room occupancy in five-star hotels down to 45%, by
Muna Sunuwar (rep 05/03/2020)
Govt
suspends on-arrival visa facility for five
nationalities (rep 03/03/2020)
Oli
directs Tourism Ministry to halt Visit Nepal, but
minister has yet to decide: Confusion continues to
reign over the tourism industry as Yogesh Bhattarai
has yet to make a public statement regarding the
status of Visit Nepal 2020 , by Sangam Prasain (kp
03/03/2020)
Govt
cancels promotion of VNY2020 abroad amid fear of
COVID-19, by Muna Sunuwar (rep 01/03/2020), Tourism
Ministry cancels Visit Nepal promotions for March but
experts say it is too little, too late: Travel
entrepreneurs believe that the coronavirus outbreak
has all but doomed Visit Nepal 2020 and it is now
better to postpone the event completely, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 02/03/2020), VN 2020, Sagarmatha
Sambaad to be rescheduled: On arrival visa for
foreigners to be halted temporarily from March 7,
by Sujan Dhungana (ht 02/03/2020), Tourist
arrival dismal at Banke National Park (ht
02/03/2020)
Thamel
offers everything to foreign tourists, but lacks a
very basic thing: A public toilet: Officials at Thamel
Development Council say the land is too expensive to
construct public restrooms, by Anup Ojha (kp
01/03/2020)
The
sublime, subtopia and conceit of tourism: Urban
centres are sprouting on the fertile plains and river
valleys that once fed the population, by Khem R.
Shreesh (kp 28/02/2020)
Border
dispute halts infrastructure development in Shailung
area: Both Doramba of Ramechhap and Shailung of
Dolakha lay claim to the tourist destination, by
Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp 22/02/2020)
Cultural
heritage and tourism in Bhaktapur: Tourists pay to see
the historical attractions, and the money they
contribute is used to maintain them, by Gyanendra
Dhar Pradhananga (kp 19/02/2020)
An
irrational fear of the Chinese is causing tourists
from other countries to stay away, hoteliers say:
Although Chinese tourist numbers have dropped sharply
since the coronavirus outbreak, a fear among other
visitors is leading hotel occupancy rates to plummet,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 17/02/2020), Fear
of Chinese tourists hasn’t killed Visit Nepal:
Irrationality must not overpower truth. Visit Nepal’s
failures are due to misdirected campaigning (kp
18/02/2020)
No
tourism without infrastructures: Government needs to
invest in development of appropriate infrastructure to
enable our tourism industry to compete against other
destinations like Bhutan, Kashmir, Tibet and the
Maldives, by Keshab Sharma (rep 17/02/2020)
Trekkers
return to Annapurna trail after avalanche: Travel
trade entrepreneurs said that all lodges and tea
houses on the route had reopened for business, by
Deepak Pariyar (kp 15/02/2020), Trekkers
trickling back to Annapurna Base Camp, by Muna
Sunuwar (rep 16/02/2020)
Indigenous
nationalities’ cultural, tourism fest to be held in
Lamjung (ht 15/02/2020)
Visit
Nepal is holding an ice skating event on Gokyo but it
is unclear whether authorities have consented: The
event, slated for Friday, requires permission as Gokyo
is a Ramsar site and part of Sagarmatha National Park,
a World Heritage Site, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
14/02/2020), Nepal
hosts figure skating, ice hockey in Gokyo (rep
15/02/2020)
Boosting
tourism: China can play an instrumental role in
Nepal’s infrastructures development desperately needed
for tourism growth, by Niranjan Mani Dixit (kp
12/02/2020)
MoCTCA
prepares to release 2nd tranche of subsidy (rep
11/02/2020)
Karnali
Province lacks mechanism to register tourist arrivals
(rep 11/02/2020)
Tourist
arrivals dropped by 33pc in January (ht
10/02/2020), VNY
off to a slow start as arrivals fall 2% in Jan
(rep 12/02/2020) [confusing
figures!!]
Overambitious
campaign: With the share of foreign tourists standing
at 49 percent, the target of two million is doomed,
by Shraddha More (kp 09/02/2020)
Resort
with tree houses: attracts tourists in Dharan (ht
09/02/2020)
We
need a long-term vision for tourism in Nepal: Visit
Nepal Year is suffering because of the coronavirus
epidemic. But there are also lessons for Nepali
tourism in the fallout, by Amish Raj Mulmi (kp
07/02/2020)
Tourism
entrepreneurs look for alternative markets (rep
05/02/2020)
Visit
Nepal 2020 has already suffered setbacks but it can be
salvaged, say tourism entrepreneurs: The tourism
campaign should look beyond China and India if it
wishes to attract enough tourists to meet the 2
million arrivals target, by Himendra Mohan Kumar
(kp 04/02/2020)
Govt
looks for alternative to fulfill gap from Chinese
tourists (rep 02/02/2020)
Nepal’s
best hotel hit the bottom. Can it rise again? How a
high-end resort fell victim to the nation’s political
vicissitudes, becoming a microcosm of how politics and
conflict impact businesses, by Sangam Prasain
(01/02/2020)
Nepal’s
other attraction: the night sky: The Himalaya can be a
haven for stargazers if steps are taken to protect the
darkness, by Himali Dixit (nt 31/01/2020)
Visit
Nepal 2020 could be the biggest embarrassment for this
government: The campaign target should be revised in
view of the coronavirus outbreak and a certain drop in
arrivals, by Kalyan Bhandari (kp 30/01/2020)
Regmi
appointed CEO of NTB (ht 29/01/2020), Coming
from a largely academic background, new Tourism Board
CEO faces a challenge: Not many in the tourism
industry know Dhananjay Regmi but say his academic
work could complement his role as chief of the Tourism
Board, by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp 01/02/2020)
Tourism
at receiving end of coronavirus outbreak (rep
29/01/2020)
Coronavirus
fear grips tourism sector (ht 26/01/2020), Chinese
tourist arrivals to slump as Beijing halts group
outbound travel: A big blow to VNY 2020, say tour
operators, by Sagar Ghimure (rep 26/01/2020), Setback
for tourism (rep 26/01/2020), China’s
ban on outbound tours certain to affect the Visit
Nepal campaign: Visit Nepal plans to attract 350,000
Chinese tourists, which is looking increasingly
unlikely in the face of the coronavirus outbreak,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 27/01/2020), Visit
Nepal 2020 campaign gets off to an ominous start,
by Arpana Ale Magar (ht 27/01/2020)
Street
children 'terrorize' tourists as they beg, by
Sandesh Shrestha (rep 25/01/2020) [And
government terrorises toursits as it has not repaired
many roads for years!]
Tourist
arrivals slowed significantly in 2019, raising
concerns for Visit Nepal 2020: In order to meet the
target of 2 million visitors, Nepal expects 350,000
Chinese arrivals but the coronavirus outbreak means
that is unlikely, by Sangam Prasain (kp
24/01/2020)
Nepal
is ready to welcome tourists, but where will they come
from? The country needs focused strategies for
existing and potential source-markets, by Chandra
Prasad Bhattarai (kp 24/01/2020)
Appointment
of CEO to tourism board postponed after “power play”
among aspirants: Three candidates have been
shortlisted but concerns about the top candidate’s
loyalty from Baluwatar put a halt to the process,
according to sources, by Sangam Prasain (kp
20/01/2020), NTB’s
CEO selection process lingers over trivial issues
(rep 21/01/2020), Appointment
process for top job at Tourism Board hangs in the
balance: At least half a dozen people in the know told
the Post that the appointment had become uncertain,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 22/01/2020), Don’t
run interference on tourism: The tourism board cannot
function without its head when Visit Nepal has begun
(kp 23/01/2020), PMO's
intervention throws NTB CEO selection process into
uncertainty (rep 23/01/2020)
Visit
Nepal Year 2020: Let’s promote homestays, by
Gyanendra Dhar Pradhananga (ht 20/01/2020)
Two
new paragliding zones added near Kathmandu Valley
(ht 19/01/2020)
We
all are tourists: Tourists should not be treated as
deities. It augurs well for us to treat them as
ordinary human beings who are prone to all human
vagaries, by Babu Ram Neupane (rep 19/01/2020)
VNY
2020: Prospects And Challenges, by Hira Bahadur
Thapa (rn 17/01/2020)
Tourists
come to Janakpur in droves, but stay only for a day:
Tourists in Janakpur complain of difficulty in
navigation for lack of proper tourism infrastructure,
by Shyam Sundar Shashi (kp 14/01/2020)
A
vision for sustainable tourism: The entire country
could learn lessons from the sustainable tourism drive
occurring in the Shey Phoksundo trail, by Amir R.
Thapa (kp 14/01/2020)
Tourist
arrivals dropped slightly in 2019 (ht 13/01/2020)
Sudurpaschim’s
budget lacks: vision and strategic plan, saytourism
entrepreneurs, by Mohan Budhaair (kp 08/01/2020)
Tourism
Minister’s Visit Nepal rally in Sydney condemned for
being insensitive and inappropriate: Yogesh Bhattarai
held a rally to draw Australian tourists to Nepal
while the country reels under massive bushfires across
millions of hectares, by Sangam Prasain (kp
07/01/2020)
Give
a boost to tourism: With optimum IT use, by Pramod
Parajuli (ht 06/01/2020)
What
people can do: Let us do what we can to ensure that
our guests have a pleasant stay in 2020 and every year
following that, by Niraj Shrestha (rep 06/01/2020)
Nepal's
tourism aspirations: In 2020, the country should be
open about its problems and its dedication to the
preservation of our cultural matters, by Abhi
Subedi (kp 05/01/2020)
Adventure
tourism sees growth (ht 05/01/2020)
Visit
Nepal Boosts Economy, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
05/01/2020)
Chinese
tourist influx to Nepal in 2020: Travel trade hopes to
raise visitors from China to half-a-million in 2020,
by Josie Wang (nt 03/01/2020)
Diplomats
take to social media to promote Visit Nepal 2020, and
beyond: Analysts say diplomats using social media to
push diplomacy is fine as long as it doesn’t affect
Nepal’s domestic policies, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp
03/01/2020)
Tourists
want public toilets, garbage bins and a hassle-free
airport—not a week-long tourism extravaganza:
Kathmandu Metropolitan City has announced a week-long
campaign to supplement Visit Nepal 2020, but tourists
are more concerned about basic amenities, by Anup
Ojha (kp 03/01/2020))
Why
Nepal’s tourism campaigns have—and haven’t—worked:
Given the success of past initiatives, tourism
entrepreneurs have high hopes for the campaign that
aims to bring in 2 million tourists, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 02/01/2020)
Visit
Nepal campaign fails to enthuse remote Karnali
districts, by Nagerndra Upadhyaya and DB Budha
(rep 02/01/2020)
Why
Visit Nepal? Nepal is a unique creation of nature.
Visit Nepal to enjoy the excellent and unique natural
beauty. Gain the lifetime experience and take
back this experience home, by Yogesh Bhattarai
(rep 02/01/2020)
Govt
lacks health plans for foreign tourists (ht
02/01/2020)
Visit
Nepal 2020 kicks off today, by Arpana Ale Magar
(ht 01/01/2020), Making
VNY 2020 successful: We need to demonstrate goodwill,
both in words and action, so that tourists feel at
home in Nepal and want to visit again and again,
by Purnima Shrestha (rep 01/01/2020)
Visit
Nepal 2020 prime focus for tourism sector in 2019,
by Arpana Ale Magar (ht 31/12/2019)
Nepal
aims for 2 million tourists in 2020, but cities lack
nightlife: Social activities and entertainment in the
evening and at night can significantly contribute to
making the Visit Nepal campaign a success,
entrepreneurs say, by Sangam Prasain and Himendra
Mohan Kumar (kp 30/12/2019)
Sindhupalchowk
warms up for VNY, by Dhruba Dangal (rep
30/12/2019)
Indigenous
nationalities to support VNY (rep 30/12/2019)
Nepal’s
first online travel aggregator XcelTrip wants to
‘disrupt’ the tourism industry: Nepali travellers can
pay for hotels and flight tickets using e-SEWA, debit
and credit cards issued by local banks while
foreigners can use their international cards, by
Prahlqad Rijal (kp 30/12/2019)
Migrant
workers will be asked to wear shirts and caps with the
Visit Nepal logo: Human rights activists have called
the decision misguided, ineffective and ridiculous
(kp 28/12/2019) [Discriminatory
bullshit!]
TAAN
willing to revise TIMS card pact with tourism board
(ht 28/12/2019)
TAAN
operating without organization renewal for two years
(rep 28/12/2019)
Museum
hotel to reflect Nepal’s cultural, ethnic diversity
(rep 28/12/2019)
Fall
in arrivals by air during peak tourist season does not
bode well for Visit Nepal 2020: Visitor arrivals by
air fell by 17.46 percent in November, which is
considered peak tourist season for Nepal, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 27/12/2019)
How
tourism might not benefit Nepal: The way local
governments are scrambling to host tourism festivals
without any study will not create a sustainable avenue
for tourism development, by Chandra Prasad
Bhattarai (kp 27/12/2019)
Thamel
business likely to suffer for more days (kp
27/12/2017)
A
week before Visit Nepal 2020 begins, Tourism Board
loses its CEO: Deepak Raj Joshi’s term has ended and
it could take at least three weeks before a new CEO is
appointed, board officials say, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 25/12/2019)
Only
30 percent work on Gorkha Durbar completed as deadline
ends: The Department of Archaeology is preparing to
extend the contract, by Hariram Upreti (kp
25/12/2019)
Northern
base camp of Annapurna to be promoted, by Hari
Krishna Gautam (rep 23/12/2019)
Snowfall
halts tourist arrival in Jumla (rep 21/12/2019)
Tourism
in Karnali: Businesspersons eager to invest, demand
conducive environment, by Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep
21/12/2019)
Tourism
Board's age limit for recruitment challenged in court:
The vacancy announcement says applicants for the post
of CEO should be between 35 and 60 years old, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 19/12/2019)
1.3m
tourists from 113 nations visit Lumbini, by
Mohammad Habib (rep 19/12/2019)
Province
5 to start VNY campaign from Bardiya (rep
17/12/2019)
Rasuwagadhi
border sees a decline in the number of tourists
entering Nepal: The border point is a major point used
by Chinese tourists to enter Nepal, by Balaram
Ghimire (kp 16/12/2019)
Poor
infrastructure affects VNY preparation, by Giriraj
Baskota (rep 16/12/2019)
Preparation
for Visit Nepal 2020 in Parsa “absolutely zero”: Hotel
entrepreneurs and campaigners lament that the major
tourist hubs in the district are left in the shadows,
by Shankar Acharya (kp 16/12/2019)
A
community forest in Bardiya attracts tourists: Every
day, an average of 50 to 100 tourists arrive in the
forest to catch glimpses of rhinos and tigers, by
Kamal Panthi (kp 15/12/2019)
Stakeholders
ignore govt’s search and rescue guideline (ht
15/12/2019)
Nepal
is pedalling towards a new form of tourism: Visit
Nepal 2020 hopes to capitalise on the potential of
Nepal becoming a prime destination for adventure
mountain biking, by Thomas Heaton (kp 14/12/2019)
Nepali
and Chinese officials stress road connectivity to
boost tourist arrivals from China: Nepal was able to
attract a meagre 0.1 percent out of the total Chinese
visiting abroad, by Prahlad Rijal ()kp 14/12/2019)
International
workshop on transport and tourism begins (ht
14/12/2019)
Kathmandu
goes to sleep by 10, what are tourists going to do?
Nepal is still stuck with archaic policing methods,
which have prevented Nepali cities from discovering
their tourism potential (kp 13/12/2019)
Visit
Nepal 2020 pins hope for strong medium-term growth
outlook, says World Bank report: The multilateral
funding agency said import growth would slow down as
the government implements its programmes to check
fiscal deficit (kp 13/12/2019) [see Nepal
Development Update by World Bank, 12/12/2019]
Bhaktapur
to start ‘night heritage walk’ for tourists ahead of
Visit Nepal 2020: The first of the night walks will
take place this evening, by Anup Ojha (kp
12/12/2019)
Chasing
the chimera of tourism development: Tourism can thrive
in Province 2, but policymakers must not be swayed by
unrealistic plans, by CK Lal (kp 11/12/2019)
Army
unveils various activities to support VNY 2020
(rep 10/12/2019)
High
cost of jet fuel in Kathmandu airport is keeping
foreign airlines away: Airlines pay $1 per litre to
fuel up at Tribhuvan International Airport, compared
to $0.55 per litre in Delhi, a new government report
says, by Sangam Prasain (kp 09/12/2019) [High
ground handling charges, twice as high as at other
international airports, are another reason for foreign
airlines not to fly to TIA. Quite obviously, the
government does not want to increase the number of
incoming tourists!]
Uniformity
in airfare for locals, foreigners possible (ht
09/12/2019)
Promotion
of Buddhist religious routes stressed (ht
09/12/2019)
Tipta
La: Paradise under the shadow: Difficult to reach but
it’s worth every step you take towards this hidden
destination nestled between valleys, by Ananda
Gautam (kp 07/12/2019)
Govt
to observe tourism decade (ht 07/12/2019)
Tilaurakot,
where Siddhartha Gautam spent his early years, ignored
in Visit Nepal Year 2020 publicity campaigns:
Tilaurakot was omitted in the publicity programmes by
mistake, says Lumbini Development Trust, by Manojk
Paudel (kp 06/12/2019)
Homestays
keep former migrants in Nepal, by Mukesh Pokhrel
(nt 06/12/2019), Nepalis
open doors to a better life: Community homestay
empowers women, uplifts communities and provides
tourists a close-up of life in Nepal, by
Sanghamitra Subba (nt 06/12/2019
Fearing
setbacks ahead of Visit Nepal campaign’s launch,
tourism board extends CEO's term by three months: The
selection sub-committee of Nepal Tourism Board on
Wednesday invited applications to hire a new CEO,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 05/12/2019)
Stakeholders
seek promotion of sports tourism (ht 05/12/2019)
Tourism
minister seeks ambassadors’ support to make VNY
successful (ht 05/12/2019)
Tourists
are flocking in but hardly spending money: Government
has failed to take appropriate measures to increase
vacation lengths and create avenues for tourists to
spend money, entrepreneurs say, by Himendra Mohan
Kumar (kp 04/12/2019)
Foreign
tourist arrivals down (ht 04/12/2019) [related to
CNP]
Tourism
industry seeks incentive package for Visit Nepal 2020:
Cheaper aviation fuel, cash grants for high
performers, tax discounts and removal of entry fees
among major demands, by Sangam Prasain (kp
03/12/2019)
TAAN
to introduce new trekking routes in January (ht
03/12/2019)
Suryodaya
Municipality organizing tourism festival, by Bhim
Chapagain (rep 02/12/2019)
Rs
262m allocated for VNY campaign promotion (ht
01/12/2019)
42
trekking trails to be built in Karnali (rep
01/12/2019)
Pattale:
The perfect destination for Everest sight-seeing:
Having already hosted two famous ultra trail races,
this famous tourist hub in the Everest region is set
to welcome visitors, by Kumbha Raj Rai (kp
30/11/2019)
How
Sindhupalchok’s state-designated destinations are
faring ahead of Visit Nepal 2020: The reconstruction
and renovation works in the district’s destinations
are still in the preliminary phase, with 2020 just a
month away, by Anish Tiwari (kp 30/11/2019)
Why
Nepal won't see two million tourists in 2020: Revenue
growth remains sluggish, but authorities are obsessed
with the arrivals figure, by Chandra Prasad
Bhattarai (kp 29/11/2019)
‘Bring
homestay service under income tax net’ (ht
27/11/2019)
VNY
to be inaugurated from Dasharath Stadium (ht
26/11/2019)
Lack
of budget to implement master plan for the
conservation of Satyawati Lake: The grand plan
revolves around developing the area as one of the
important tourist destinations in the country, by
Madhav Aryal (kp 25/11/2019)
Over
12,000 tourists enter Langtang in 4 months, by
Himnath Devkota (rep 24/11/2019)
Rhododendron
capital under-equipped for Visit Nepal 2020: Teenjure,
Milke and Jaljale, spread over three districts,
Tehrathum, Sankhuwasabha and Taplejung, is one of the
designated areas for Visit Nepal Year 2020, by
Chandra Karki (kp 23/11/2019)
Tourism
ministers of 40 countries to visit Nepal (ht
23/11/2019)
Ghumarchowk:
A world away, just an hour from the city: This small
scenic village is a natural antidote for those seeking
to escape from the concrete jungle, by Tsering
Ngodup Lama (kp 22/11/2019)
Nepali
entrepreneurs worry after China hikes Mansarovar entry
fee for Indians (ht 21/11/2019)
Tourist
police receive 576 complaints in 10 months (ht
21/11/2019)
Nepal’s
luxury hotels are growing but the rooms are empty:
There are 15 five-star hotels in the country, and a
dozen more are being planned even as existing hotels
continue to report a significant drop in profit,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 20/11/2019)
Stakeholders
ask government to ensure Manthali-Lukla flights,
by Arpana Ale Magar (ht 20/11/2019)
TAAN
to provide skill training to tourism entrepreneurs
(ht 20/11/2019)
New
rules for Nepali tourists travelling abroad (ht
19/11/2019)
People’s
representatives in Doti say they are 'dissatisfied'
over preparations for Visit Nepal 2020: They complain
about poor coordination with the provincial, federal
government, despite the programme inching closer,
by Mohan Shahi (kp 19/11/2019)
Pathibhara:
The pull of the divine: Unlike several Hindu temples
across the country, Pathibhara is open to people of
all castes and religions, by Ananda Gautam (kp
16/11/2019)
The
Lumba Sumba Passage: Trekking is evolving fast on once
remote east Nepal routes, by Henry Edmundson (nt
15/11/2019)
Air
traffic congestion to hit VNY 2020, by Arpana Ale
Magar (ht 13/11/2019)
Tanahun
homestays: Packed in season, quiet in off-season,
by Binod Dhungana (rep 13/11/2019)
MoCTCA
allots Rs 1 billion for 100 destinations (ht
12/11/2019)
Lack
of functional toilets in Mayadevi temple area compels
Lumbini visitors to relieve themselves in the open:
Infrastructure was built for four well-equipped
toilets in the area but lack of a plan on how to
operate them has rendered them unusable, by Manoj
Poudel (kp 11/11/2019)
Pokhara,
Bharatpur collaborate for tourism promotion (rep
11/11/2019)
Foreign
tourists arrivals surge 8 percent to 975,557: In
October alone, Nepal welcomed 143,870 foreign tourists
(kp 09/11/2019), Nearly
million visitors in first 10 months (ht
09/11/2019), Nepal
sees 10% growth in tourist arrival in October (rep
09/11/2019)
Seti
River, the new favorite for rafting, by Shreehari
Poudel (rep 09/11/2019)
Are
you planning a trip to Dharan? Here are seven places
around the city you would want to visit: A city of
many faces flanked by the Tarai plains and the Eastern
hills welcomes you for an experience of a lifetime,
by Pradeep Menyangbo (kp 09/11/2019)
Langtang
is not a place, it is a people: The Langtang Valley is
sublime, to say the least, but what really wins your
heart is not its beauty but its spirit, by Marissa
Taylor (kp 08/11/2019)
Rhino
Park to be constructed in Meghauli to promote tourism,
by Sabita Shrestha (kp 07/11/2019)
TAAN
to provide discount packages for VNY 2020 (ht
06/11/2019)
Pokali
cultural festival held to attract 20,000 tourists,
by Sher Bahadur Jero (rep 06/11/2019)
Nepal
trekking start-up company ups its ante in the
cut-throat travel business: MountainKick has hired
veteran tour operators and guides to enhance foreign
travellers’ trekking experiences, by Prahlad Rijal
(kp 04/11/2019)
Over
29,000 tourists enter Nepal from Rasuwagadhi in 10
months, by Himnath Devkota (rep 04/11/2019)
Fully
equipped rescue centre set up along Annapurna trekking
trail (ht 02/11/2019)
Too
many mules on the Everest trail, by Alton C. Byers
(nt 01/11/2019)
Local
units in Baglung prioritise constructing foot trails
to promote tourism: The local government aims to
promote the already-existing foot trails and explore
new ones keeping tourism in mind, by Prakash Baral
(kp 01/11/2019)
HAN
member hotels to offer 30% discounts on rooms, 15% on
food (rep 01/11/2019)
Hotels
business thriving in Mulkot due to road connectivity,
by Anil Bhandari (rep 31/10/2019)
Foreigners
report high number of theft and fraud cases with
tourist police: 1,252 cases were reported in the past
two fiscal years, but none concerned serious crime,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 24/10/2019)
Okhaldhunga
homestay awaits guests, by Sher Bahadur Jero (rep
22/10/2019)
VNY
promotional centres to be set up in Nepali embassies
(ht 21/10/2019)
After
Xi Jinping’s visit, Nepal is expecting a surge in
Chinese tourists: The country needs to upgrade
infrastructure and focus more on quality tourism
rather than just numbers, travel and tourism operators
say, by Sangam Prasain (kp 20/10/2019)
NTB
preparing profiles of 100 tourist destinations for VNY
(ht 20/10/2019)
Manaslu
Himal draws mountaineers and tourists in droves: 2,030
foreign tourists, including 17 from SAARC countries,
visited the Manaslu region, by Hariram Urpeti (kp
20/10/2019)
Tourists
arrival up in Tatopani Kunda (ht 20/10/2019)
Here’s
how to spend two weeks in Mundhum trail, the
preeminent destination of Kirati culture: Khotang
hosts one of the newest trails—Mundhum trail—that
charts through many eastern hilly districts, by
Dambar Singh Rai (kp 19/10/2019)
New
High Way to Dolpo ... is not good news for trekkers,
by Sonam Choekyi Lama (nt 18/10/2019)
Rara
Lake attracting tourists in droves (ht 18/10/2019)
TAAN
expects increase in flow of Chinese tourists after
Xi’s visit (ht 17/10/2019)
Police
patrol along Annapurna trail to ensure travellers’
safety: More than 250 tourists use the famous trekking
route every day, by Aash Gurung (kp 16/10/2019)
Road
condition the major stumbling block for Lumbini’s
tourism year goal: The Buddha’s birthplace hasn’t seen
as many tourists as expected for the Lumbini Travel
Year 2076, owing to the sorry state of its roads,
by Amrita Anmol (kp 14/10/2019), The
government must undertake development activities for
its citizens: The problems road conditions are
creating for Lumbini’s tourism year goals cannot be
ignored (kp 15/10/2019)
Hordes
of tourists descend upon Langtang: The area is popular
with trekkers and offers panoramic views, by
Balaram Ghimire (kp 14/10/2019)
Foreign
visitors up (ht 14/10/2019) [related to BNP]
20pc
discount on homestay next year (ht 14/10/2019)
With
Jinping’s visit, Pokhara entrepreneurs hopeful
business will grow: Last year, 154,000 Chinese
tourists arrived in Nepal, according to data of the
Tourism Board, by Deepak Pariyar (kp 13/10/2019)
Rasuwa
sees rise in tourist footfalls (rep 13/10/2019)
Nepali
Army to promote Visit Nepal Year 2020 (ht
04/10/2019)
Five-star
Everest Hotel reopens its door a crack: The luxury
property is yet to clear its dues, renew the permit
and do an impact study, by Sangam Prasain (kp
01/10/2019)
Hotel
workers give 21-day ultimatum: Workers threaten
protest on the eve of Visit Nepal Year (rep
01/10/2019)
Meghauli
offering homestay services targeting VNY 2020, by
Sabita Shrestha (rep 01/10/2019)
A
guide to vacationing in Pokhara: Breathtaking sights,
beautiful lakes, amazing food and one-of-a-kind
experience is what Pokhara is about. Put it well on
top of your bucket list when you plan your vacation
next, by Madha Malla (kp 28/09/2019)
Tourist
arrivals surge 9 percent in first eight months:
Visitors from Thailand rose 38.9 percent (kp
27/09/2019)
As
neighbouring economies slump, tourists number could
see a drop: The impact of the slowdown in India and
China is likely to be felt in currency, which will
affect trade and forex reserves, economists say,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 25/09/2019) [Nepal's
tourism policy is also not very helpful: it already
makes flights to Nepal extremely expensive. The
discriminatory staggered and already expensive
domestic fares are another handicap.]
Will
dengue impact Visit Nepal 2020?, by Priyanka
Adhikari (rep 19/09/2019)
Gosaikunda:
A fair mix of adventure and spiritualism: Don’t make
the trek only about trekking; stand back, smell the
rhododendrons, look at the mountains and breathe in
the fresh mountain air, by Balaram Ghimire (kp
14/09/2019)
Tourism,
aviation and carbon: If Nepal hits its 2 million
tourist target in 2020, travellers will emit up to 4
million tons of carbon, by Sanghamitra Subba (nt
13/09/2019)
Nepal
has been named one of the cheapest countries to visit.
Here's why that's not good news: A new report by the
World Economic Forum ranks Nepal in 15th position for
price competitiveness while placing it poorly in terms
of other criteria, by Sangam Prasain (kp
12/09/2019) [see correspong
report]
Tourism
industry in Nepal: Make it backbone of economy, by
Bidhyaman Mahatara (ht 06/09/2019)
Tourism
thrives on teamwork: Visit Nepal Year 2020 can
accommodate all people and institutions for the common
goal of solidarity for prosperity, by Yogesh
Bhattarai (kp 05/09/2019)
Tourism
Satellite Account to be ready by end of this fiscal
year (ht 05/09/2019)
Everest
Hotel plans a comeback without clearing outstanding
dues: Department of Tourism says the five-star
property owes Rs103.5 million to the government,
by Sangam Prasain. (kp 04/09/2019)
Airbnb
is thriving but hoteliers are worried, by Sujeeta
Pradhan (rep 03/09/2019)
Nepal
is in the midst of hotel building spree. But will the
tourists come? This year, the Tourism Department
awarded a five-star rating to four hotels, bringing
the total number of hotels in the five-star category
to 15, by Sangam Prasain (kp 02/09/2019)
TGAN
seeks removal of FIT permit (ht 02/09/2019)
Khopra-Khayerbaraha
trekking trail is most famous for monsoon trek. But
it’s a trail for all seasons: Monsoon has brought the
Nagi-Mahare-Khopra-Khayerbaraha trekking route alive
in a riot of colours, by Ghanshyam Khadka (kp
31/08/2019)
The
right place for rainy respite: Bardev offers
travellers a slice of rural life, a fast-vanishing
lifestyle, by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp 30 08/2019)
Homestay
brings locals home: Tourism has helped restore
Kalabang in Pokhara’s hinterland, by Reeti K.C.
(nt 30/08/2019)
DoT
hands over tourism-related responsibilities to
provincial govts (ht 28/08/2019)
Bhedatar
ill-prepared for VNY-2020 (ht 27/08/2019)
Tourism
minister unveils one-year work plan (ht
27/08/2019)
Gorkha
reviving traditional round houses for attracting
tourists, by Binod Dgungana (rep 27/08/2019)
Domestic
tourist inflow increases in Rasuwa, by Him Nath
Devkota (rep 27/08/2019)
Publicity
is not enough to retain tourist numbers: There is a
need to preserve the country's cultural and natural
assets to develop the tourism industry, by Arju
Dahal (kp 26/08/2019)
With
criticism growing, fewer tourists are riding elephants
in Chitwan: While tourism entrepreneurs say that their
elephants are treated humanely, wildlife
conservationists believe that the model of elephant
tourism needs to change, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel
(kp 26/08/2019)
Here
are five places you should visit in Surkhet: Surkhet
has its own several awe-inspiring sites that one can
get to within an hour’s ride from the district
headquarters, Birendranagar, by Jyoti Katuwal (kp
24/08/2019)
Tourism
ministry asks subordinate bodies to be active on
social media (rep 22/08/2019)
Kavre
homestay holiday packages getting popular among
foreigners, by Jyoti Shrestha (rep 21/08/2019)
Reviving
Nepal’s rural economy: Nepal can take cues from
post-second world war Tuscany and promote agro-tourism,
by Jagannath Adhikari (kp 20/08/2019)
Number
of tourists up by 42.6% in Ilam, by Bhim Chapagain
(rep 20/08/2019)
Saipal,
land of verdant hills, indigenous festivities, and
local wine, invites you for one-of-a-kind experience:
Saipal might as well be one of the most beautiful, yet
fairly uncharted, territory in the country, by
Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 17/08/2019)
NTB
bringing Rs 1.5 billion budget, by Nikeeta Gautam
(rep 17/08/2019)
Hotels
in Annapurna Base Camp resume operations: A heavy
snowstorm in February had blown the roofs off and left
the hotels vulnerable to the elements, by Deepak
Pariyar (kp 17/08/2019)
How
to travel from Manang to Mustang in five days—and not
die along the way: At times, it may feel like it’s
your last day on earth. But you’ll live, by
Pranaya SJB Rana (kp 16/08/2019)
Hiking,
trekking trails unveiled in Kavre targeting Visit
Nepal Year (ht 14/08/2019)
Tourism
targets not attained, by Arpana Ale Magar (ht
11/09/2019)
Innovating
tourism: In the age of digitalization, Nepal should
opt for ‘QR code’ information system to enable
tourists to gather information about places they visit,
by Biranchi Poudyal (rep 11/08/2019)
Private
sector asks the government to wake up as Visit Nepal
2020 nears: There were many grievances— expensive jet
fuel charge, haphazard taxes imposed on foreign
trekkers, pollution and shoddy airport
infrastructure—that need a fix, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 10/08/2019)
Karnali
announces 40 destinations for VNY 2020, by
Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep 05/08/2019)
Sauraha
to be more eco-friendly for VNY 2020, by Nikeeta
Gautam (rep 04/08/2019)
NRN
investor offers to buy Tiger Palace Resort in
Bhairahawa for $33.9 million: The 100-room property is
the first integrated five-star casino resort in South
Asia, by Sangam Prasain (kp 03/08/2019)
Hotels
along Annapurna region to resume operations (rep
03/08/2019)
New
tourism minister faces a slew of challenges,
especially on policy: Yogesh Bhattarai will need to
retool civil aviation while also ensuring that Visit
Nepal 2020 takes off without a hitch, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 02/08/2019), Challenges
facing Minister Bhattarai: The new tourism minister
has to chart a new course to revitalise a promising
industry (kp 02/08/2019)
Langtang
receives record number of tourists in the last fiscal
year: 16,386 foreign and 5,559 Nepali trekkers thronged
Langtang National Park, by Balaram Ghimire (kp
31/07/2019)
Sardu
riverside: A new tourist destination in Dharan, by
Rohit Rai (rep 28/07/2019)
There’s
more to Rara than just the lake: Local delicacies,
antique villages and religious shrines provide an array
of things to do while visiting the pristine lake in Mugu,
by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp 27/07/2019)
Time
in Lwang, with my two-year-old nephew: A journey to a
beautiful tea garden, with glorious mountain views makes
for quality time to reaffirm important ties, by
Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp 26/07/2019)
Visit
Nepal 2020 is five months away, but not much has been
done to promote the country abroad: An inexperienced
campaign leader, an inadequate budget and lack of
leadership at the Tourism Ministry are all hampering
promotional activities, by Sangam Prasain (kp
26/07/2019)
Visa
stickers in short supply in Consulate Office, Munich
(ht 23/07/2019)
Rock
Garden to boost tourism in Rolpa, by Dinesh Subedi
(rep 22/07/2019)
Rs
68 bn earned from travel sector: Tourism Excellency
Award to be held in September, Tourism Investment
Summit in 1st quarter of 2020 (ht 21/07/2019)
Tourism
fraternity sees ample promotion opportunities for VNY
2020, by Nikeeta Gautam (rep 21/07/2019)
Tourist
arrivals up 12 pc in first half (ht 18/07/2019)
Government
raises tourist visa fees, after a decade, by Muna
Sunuwar (rep 17/07/2019)
Tourist
arrivals to Chitwan reach all-time high of 185,644:
The national park is home to 125 tigers and 605
one-horned rhinos, making it a must-see destination
for wildlife enthusiasts, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel
(kp 16/07/2019)
New
visa fee for foreign visitors from July 17: Tourists
to pay five to 35 dollars more (ht 12/07/2019)
101
tourist destinations declared in Karnali State
(rep 12/07/2019)
To
make up for monsoon slack, Nepal opts for spiritual
tourism, by Sonam Choekyi Lama (nt 12/07/2019)
Everest
hotel preparing to resume services (ht
11/07/2019)
Bollywood
celebs to create buzz about Nepal: Tourism sector to
cash in on multi-million dollar media blitz (ht
10/07/2019) [??]
In
an embarrassing gaffe, tourism campaign for Nepal
promotes a picture from Thailand in London: Tourism
Board says it has nothing to do with the poster,
pointing finger at Visit Nepal secretariat. The
banner has now been changed (kp 09/07/2019)
Tourist
information centre opens in Thamel, by Anup Ojha
(kp 04/07/2019)
Pokhara
eyes more Indian visitors: Sets target of increasing
share of Indian tourists to 50% of total arrivals in
next five years, by Santosh Pokharel (rep
04/07/2019)
Homestay
registration on the rise, by Muna Sunuwar (rep
01/07/2019)
Average
tourist spending drops (ht 30/06/2019)
‘Nepal’s
Switzerland’ in the making, by Ramesh Khatiwada
(rep 30/06/2019)
Overlooking
the Valley: A day’s hike to Chandragiri; Grab your
hiking boots and take the trail less travelled to
Chandragiri, by Diya Rijal (kp 28/06/2019)
Nearly
200 Kailash Mansarovar pilgrims stuck in Humla (ht
27/06/2019)
Nepal
— a destination for both backpackers and high-end
tourists, say entrepreneurs, by Arpana Ale Magar
(ht 26/06/2019)
Tourism
entrepreneurs dissatisfied with provincial level
committee for Visit Nepal 2020: The committee has
failed to have inclusive representation from all the
13 districts of the province, by Nagendra Adhikari
(kp 24/06/2019)
Praying
for rain in Chhaimale: There are numerous short walks
to go on and majestic views to take in from the
village of Chhaimale, by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp
21/06/2019)
NTB
promoting VNY in international markets (ht
18/06/2019)
Hyatt
Regency shuts down operations: The decision follows a
tussle between workers and management, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 18/06/2019), Hyatt
resumes services: Labour office to moderate
discussions between workers and hotel management
(ht 20/06/2019)
VNY
campaign likely to face funds shortage, by Arpana
Ale Magar (ht 15/06/2019)
Study
underway for Karnali tourism master plan, by DB
Budha (rep 13/06/2019)
Road
to Rara a ‘torment’ all the way, by DB Budha (rep
12/06/2019)
Plan
to introduce tourism activities in protected areas
alarms conservationists: Jungle safari and adventure
sports in parks may help earn revenue but they can
have deleterious impact on biodiversity, experts say,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 10/06/2019)
Himalayan
Travel Mart 2019 concludes on a high note
(ht 10/06/2019)
Parbat
homestays building infrastructure, upgrading
facilities, by Chhabi Lal Tiwari (rep 10/06/2019)
House
panel seeks progress report on VNY 2020 campaign
(ht 08/06/2019)
Visit
Nepal Year 2020: About roads less traveled, by
ZenithShah (rep 09/06/2019)
Dusty
road along Bhairahawa–Taulihawa route a challenge to
Visit Lumbini Year, by Mohammad Habib (rep
08/06/2019)
Doing
the Mardi trek in three days, by Marissa Taylor
(kp 07/06/2019)
The
Budget And Tourism Sector, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
06/06/2019)
‘Need
to promote coffee tourism in Nepal’ (ht
05/06/2019)
Luxury
hotels in Kathmandu post record profits on higher
arrivals, by Sangam Prasain (kp 04/06/2019)
Trekking
circuit opened at Phoksundo Lake, by Bishnu Prasad
Devkota (ht 04/06/2019)
Himalayan
Travel Mart to push Nepal as gateway to the Himalayas
(kp 04/06/2019)
Budget
for tourism sector slashed by 51%, by Nikeeta
Gautam (rep 01/06/2019)
Crawling
towards Markhu: Taking the (bumpy) road less travelled
to Markhu tested our riding skills and patience, but
the reward came in the form of heart-stoppingly
beautiful views, by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp
31/05/2019)
Who
should tourism benefit in Nepal? Nepali tourism cannot
continue to rely on old policymaking. It needs to take
local communities into account, by Amish Raj Mulmi
(kp 31/05/2019)
Save
wildlife tourism: Let’s go back to nature, by
Manohar Shrestha (ht 28/05/2019)
Tourist
spending, stay falls further, by Nikeeta Gautam
(rep 28/05/2019)
Nepal
tourism generated Rs240 billion and supported 1
million jobs last year, by Sangam Prasain (kp
27/05/2019)
Bad
road a challenge to Visit Lumbini campaign, by
Mohammad Habib (rep 27/05/2019)
VNY
needs to go beyond regular destinations (ht
25/05/2019)
Making
Nepal accessible to all: The country is making a start
in inclusive adventure tourism with disabled-friendly
trekking and other facilities, by Monica Deupala
(nt 24/05/2019)
Making
Visit Lumbini Year Fruitful, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
24/05/2019)
NTB
signs pact with UNDP to develop TSA framework (ht
22/05/2019)
High-end
tourism: Unless we attract high paying clients,
revenue from Nepal’s tourism industry will not see a
meteoric rise, by Sujeev Shakya (kp 21/05/2019) [?????]
Unchecked
encroachment tarnishes the beauty of Kalinchowk,
by Ramesh Khatiwada (rep 21/05/2019)
Thriving
tourism in Namuna community forest benefits many local
residents, by Nabin Poudel (kp 19/05/2019)
President
inaugurates Visit Lumbini Year; campaign targets over
2 million tourists, by Madhav Dhungana and Manoj
Poudel (kp 19/05/2019), Lumbini
to be promoted as centre for global peace (ht
19/05/2019), Lumbini
Master Plan not completed even after 4 decades, by
Rekha Bhusal and Kiran Man Bajracharya (rep 19/05/2019)
China
sends 64,578 tourists to retain top spot as source market
(kp 18/05/2019)
More
tourists are visiting the country, but they are spending
less money: According to the tourism ministry, the average
spending by a tourist per day has dropped to $44, the
lowest in seven years, by Sangam Prasain (kp 17/05/2019)
This
is what it’s like to trek: Manaslu Circuit is an exercise in
extremes, where one’s limits—and resolve—are constantly put
to the test by the trails, by Thomas Heaton (kp
17/05/2019)
Tourism
entrepreneurs call for reviewing air rescue procedures,
by Santosh Pokharel and Narahari Sapkota (rep 16/05/2019)
Campaign
for Buddhist tourism: Buddha’s legacy has been monopolized
by India. Nepal needs to reclaim the Buddha and his legacy
as a fundamental part of nation’s identity and narrative.
Our history is inseparable from Buddhism, by Dharma
Adhikari and Juyang Zhang (rep 15/05/2019)
Kailash
pilgrimage uncertain as Tibet govt tightens permit, by
Kosh Raj Koirala (rep 14/05/2019)
Experts’
team all set to study wildlife, tourism (ht 12/05/2019)
Additional
Rs 84 million to be given for homestay, by Santosh
Pokhrel (rep 12/05/2019)
New
trekking route to Hidden Lake comes into operation (ht
11/05/2019)
Italian
trekker succumbs to altitude sickness, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 11/05/2019)
Govt
raises visa fees for foreigners, by Jagdishor Panday (ht
10/05/2019)
Tourism
Infrastructure Summit in offing (ht 10/05/2019)
Visit
Lumbini Year campaign announced, targets 2.5 million
tourists (kp 09/05/2019)
Branding
Buddha’s birthplace: Buddhist tourism can appeal to a large
number of faith-inspired travelers. Branding Nepal as
Buddha’s birthplace would help to counter the persisting
misinformation that Buddha was born in India, by Dharma
Adhikari and Juyan Zhang (rep 08/05/2019)
Nothing
new for tourism sector for next fiscal year (ht
04/05/2019)
Wasted
opportunity
in tourism: Lo Manthang warrants a world heritage status,
but authorities should be able to look beyond monetary
exploitation, by Amish Raj Mulmi (kp 03/05/2019)
Downhill
all the way: Nepal has the ideal extreme terrain for
mountain bicycle racing, by Reeti K.C. (nt 03/05/2019)
Nepali
tourism fraternity fails to tap Sri Lanka’s tourists (ht
02/05/2019)
Gandaki
province doling out Rs 300 million to homestays on ad
hoc basis: Homestays getting Rs 1 million each, by
Santosh Pokharel (rep 02/05/2019)
DoT
collects Rs 487 million in expedition royalty (ht
01/05/2019)
Scenery
is not enough: Here are a few things Karnali Province needs
to do to boost the local tourism sector, by Jaya Jung
Mahat (kp 30/04/2019)
Build
on sand: Thoughtless exploitation of river-based
resources will hit water tourism hard (kp
23/04/2019)
Himalayan
Travel Mart 2019 to be organised from June 7 (ht
22/04/2019)
Tourism
ministry to prioritise VNY 2020 in next fiscal budget
(ht 18/04/2019)
Has
influx of Chinese tourists benefitted Nepal
economically?, by Rupak D Sharma (ht 17/04/2019)
Tourism
businesses thrive in quake-hit Melamchighyang, by
Dhruba Dangal (rep 17/04/2019)
High-altitude
yak festival draws tourists from India, China and
Bhutan, by Giriraj Baskota (rep 16/04/2019)
Rupandehi
sees internal tourism surge (rep 15/04/2019)
Govt
holds soft launch of VNY 2020 (ht 14/04/2019)
Tourism
campaign
misses target: Karnali Province welcomed only 233,021
tourists during tourism year campaign which is far
below the targeted 500,000 footfall, by Nagendra
Upadhyaya (rep 13/04/2019)
VNY
2020 budget endorsed (kp 11/04/2019)
Flow
of Chinese tourists yet to meet expectations (ht
10/04/2019)
Ban
on musical event leaves foreign tourists stranded
(ht 08/04/2019)
Along
the fringe of the Valley: In Kakani, you can walk off
your fill of trout and berries along two distinctly
different walking trails, each offering
serenity and stunning views, by Thomas
Heaton (kp 05/04/2019)
Camping
trek: Mobile hotel, by Manohar Shrestha (ht
03/04/2019)
Bafikot
Rural Municipality making tourism master plan, by
Lokendra Khanal (reo 03/04/2019)
VNY
2020 to be launched on Nepali New Year (ht
03/04/2019)
Tourism
board seeks technical expertise for TSA (ht
02/04/2019)
Pokhara
hoteliers worried as room occupancy falls, by
Santosh Pokharel (rep 02/04/2019)
Over
15,000 visited Rara Lake in a year: Karnali-Rara
Tourism Year campaign had targeted 100,000 visitors,
by Suman Malla (rep 01/04/2019)
Tourist
Police
to provide services from Thamel office from mid-April:
Officials say they want to make it easier for tourists
to seek assistance by setting up a new all-service
unit in Capital’s tourist hub, by Anup Ojha (kp
01/04/2019)
DoT
raises Rs 39m through expedition permits (ht
27/03/2019)
Hotel
Central Plaza in Kohalpur joins five-star club (kp
24/03/2019)
Tourists
being charged fees unfairly in Sarankot: Entrepreneurs
(rep 21/03/2019)
Ensuring
tourists’ safety (rep 19/03/2019)
Bhujung,
a tourist destination in Lamjung, declared ‘cleanest
village’, by Kisan Sangeet Nepali (rep 18/03/2019)
Holeri
gears up for tourism promotion through literary
festival, by Dinesh Subedi (rep 16/03/2019)
Chinese
top list of tourist arrivals in February (kp
12/03/2019)
Ski
training in Mustang to attract tourists, by Sushil
Babu Tahakali (rep 23/02/2019)
Number
of five-star hotels in Nepal reaches 12, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 22/02/2019)
Looking
east: A strategic marketing plan is needed to tap into
the outbound Chinese tourism market, by Saroj
Dhakal (kp 21/02/2019)
Feasibility
study of Mundhum trekking route begins (ht
21/02/2019)
Nepalis
spent Rs 48b on foreign holidays (rep 20/02/2019)
Gandaki
Province observing Internal Tourism Year sans
preparation, by Santosh Pokharel (rep 20/02/2019)
Experts
weigh pros and cons of mass tourism, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 19/02/2019)
Annapurna
Circuit closed due to worsening weather, by
Santosh Pokhrel (rep 17/02/2019)
'Heaven
is myth, Nepal is real' catches attention at Intl
tourism meet (rep 15/02/2019)
Tourist
arrivals up 25pc in January (kp 13/02/2019), Bright
start to international tourist arrivals (ht
13/02/2019), Tourist
arrivals up 25% in January: Nepal welcomed 91,793
foreign tourists in first month of 2019 (rep
13/02/2019)
Sustainable
Tourism Development, by Chet Nath Kanel (rn
13/02/2019)
International
company
used lies to threaten government, private rescue
agencies and hospitals in Nepal: A Post investigation
shows Australia-based Traveller Assist has been using
the helicopter rescue scam to market itself as the
sole representative of global insurance firms, by
Arpan Shrestha and Sangam Prasain (kp 11/02/2019), Govt
launches investigation into Traveller Assist (rep
11/02/2019)
(Un)making
tourism: Our apathy towards the environment is harming
tourism, by Geetanjali Upadhyaya (kp 10/02/2019)
Tourists
stranded after snowfall (kp 08/02/2019)
Don’t
overcharge
foreigners: Charging foreign visitors extra makes them
feel they are being cheated and Nepal’s welcome is
conditional on money they can be milked for, by
Marianne Heredge (rep 05/02/2019)
Escaping
the ‘tourism trap’: Tourism is not always linked to
development and prosperity, by Kashif Islam (kp
04/02/2019)
Tourism
to be promoted in Northeast India (ht 04/02/2019)
More
than 10,000 new room nights added in two years, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 03/02/2019)
Govt
initiates agro-tourism hub, by Rewati Sapkota (ht
03/02/2019)
Nepal
trekking
industry in damage control mode: The Tourism Ministry
cracks down on fake rescues, plans to counter negative
publicity, by Sharad Ojha (nt 01/02/2019)
Try
visiting Nepal, by Sewa Bhattarai (nt 25/01/2019)
Buddhist
Circuit fixed departure tours slated to launch
mid-July (kp 22/01/2019)
Tourist
arrival in Bhaktapur yet to reach pre-earthquake level,
by Pawan Khanal (rep 21/01/2019)
Manang’s
dilemma: Pending burden, by Sashreek Shrestha (ht
18/01/2018)
Solar
light powers homestay in Chitwan’s Madi, by Sabita
Shrestha (rep 17/01/2019)
Rasuwa
welcomed 300,000 foreign tourists in 40 years, by
Himnath Devkota (rep 17/01/2019)
Excess
baggage: The wave of domestic tourism has arrived -
what are we doing about its implications?, by
Sujeev Shakya (kp 15/01/2019)
Buddhist
International Travel Mart begins in Lumbini (ht
12/01/2019)
Tourism
boom abets deforestation and encroachment in
Kalinchowk, by Ramesh Khatiwada (rep 10/01/2019)
‘Working
procedure for eco-tourism soon’ (ht 09/01/2019)
Tourist
arrivals
cross coveted 1-million mark: The number of tourists
visiting Nepal recorded a 24.77 percent growth over last
year. Among the total arrivals, 969,287 individuals came
by air, by Sabgam Prasain (kp 09/01/2019), Nepal
receives 1.17m tourists (ht 09/01/2019)
Zip-line
to attract adventure tourists to Dhulikhel ahead of
Visit Nepal 2020, by Madhusudhan Guragain (kp
(07/01/2019)
Tourism
breathing life into dying art of pottery, by Pawan
Khanal (rep 04/01/2019)
Hiking
up the benefits of tourism: Trekkers receive a
meaningful immersion in rural Nepal, while uplifting the
local economy, by Sangmin Kim (nt 04/01/2019)
Homestays
in Madi bring cheer to locals, by Ramesh Kumar
Poudel (kp 03/01/2019)
Bhedetar
jam-packed with tourists, by Balika Maden (rep
02/01/2019)
Hoteliers
upbeat as domestic tourists descend on Pokhara, by
Santosh Pokharel (rep 01/01/2019)
Nepal
is
the new marketTravel trade entrepreneurs are excited
about what the new season has to offer, and expect
around 1.5 million tourist arrivals in 2019 (kp
31/12/2018)
At
the
heart of jungle: Chitwan is the place of nature, culture
and adventure. There is something here for everyone
making it the prime destination for a real trip in Nepal,
by Taylor Mason (rep 30/12/2018)
The
Chinese are coming: Two entrepreneurs prepare for the
expected influx of Chinese tourists by educating them
about Nepal, by Ruixue Zhang (nt 28/12/2018)
Buddhist
Travel Mart to kick off on Jan 12 (kp 26/12/2018)
14
companies show interest to operate bus service to Indian
cities: DoTM officials say 10 will get permit very soon
(rep 25/12/2018)
New
trekking route to Kanchanjunga Base Camp explored,
by Bhim Chapagain (rep 24/12/2018)
Reviving
homestay in Gorkha challenging, by Narhari Sapkota
(rep 23/12/2018)
Tourism,
aviation minister rues poor implementation of projects
(rep 22/12/2018)
Nepal
may lose Indian tourists after currency restriction,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 18/12/2018)
Neglected
foot trail of Fewa Lake, by Santosh Pokharel (rep
17/12/2018)
Work
begins on walking trail from Beni Bazar to Lovely Hill
(rep 17/12/2018)
Patihani
attracting hospitality investment, by Sabita
Shrestha (rep 16/12/2018)
Foreign
tourist arrivals cross one million mark (rep
14/12/2018)
Corporate
culture: Hotels must embrace it, by Deependra
Singh (ht 14/12/2018)
Making
adventure accessible: Tourism is not only for the
able-bodied, by Obindra B Chand (kp 12/12/2018)
Khumbu
Rural Municipality collects Rs 49.7 million in tourism
fee, by Sikhar Jung Shrestha (rep 11/12/2018)
Accommodation
fees being charged ‘illegally’ for walking to Everest,
by Khumba Raj Rai (kp 10/12/2018)
Start
with
tourism: Nepal must take measures to control air
pollution as we get close to Visit Nepal 2020, when we
aim to welcome two million visitors, by Sabita
Nakarmi (rep 10/12/2018)
Branding
the city: A way to promote tourism, by Niharika
Mathema (ht 10/12/2018)
Entrepreneurs
promote Nepali tourist destinations in Kolkata, by
Giriraj Baskota (rep 10/12/2018)
Trails
less travelled, by Joy Stephens (nt 07/12/2018), Seti’s
gorgeous gorges, by Hermann Warth (nt 7/12/2018)
More
trekkers, more trees: After 35 years, environmentalist
sees much positive change on the Everest Trail,
by Adam Stern (nt 30/11/2018)
Chopper
scam thrives despite Nepal’s promised crackdown
(kp 29/11/2018)
Ten
o’clock bar on bars: Serving of liquor in restaurants
to be prohibited after 10:00pm, by Rupak D Sharma
(ht 28/11/2018)
Patihani,
a lesser known tourist destination with unmatched
beauty, by Sabita Shrestha (rep 26/11/2018)
Tourism
industry lures foreign investors, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 23/11/2018)
Lack
of quality tourists worries Pokhara entrepreneurs,
by Santosh Pokharel (rep 12/11/2018) [The
quality
of tourists has nothing to do with the amount of money
they are able to spend but with their interest in and
understanding of Nepali culture and society!!]
Gorkha
growing into an educational tourism hub, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 07/11/2018)
The
Dynamics Of Domestic Tourism, by Kiran Dahal (rn
07/11/2018)
Mid-season
hike in permit fees worries trekking operators:
Trekking agencies’ association warns of protests
(rep 06/11/2018)
Rasuwa
brimming with Nepali tourists, by Himnath Devkota
(rep 06/11/2018)
NTB
approves Rs 1.71bn budget for ongoing fiscal (ht
05/11/2018)
Sikles
attracting hordes of tourists, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 04/11/2018)
Government
unveils list of 97 new tourist destinations (rep
02/11/2018)
Nepal
sees domestic tourism boom ahead of Visit Nepal Year
2020, by Arpana Ale Magar (rep 01/11/2018)
Nagarkot
tourism
sector slams double entry fees: Nagarkot Naldum
Tourism Development Committee, says dual fees imposed
on the foreign tourists has already hit the number of
tourist arrivals (kp 30/10/2018)
Tourist
arrivals up in Manang (ht 29/10/2018)
Annapurna
foot trail sees influx of trekkers, by Siddha Raj
Rai and Kisan Sangeet Nepali (rep 28/10/2018)
70
percent of guests at Sauraha hotels this season were
Nepalese, by Sabita Shrestha (rep 27/10/2018)
Nepali
safari-goers pack Sauraha during Dashain, by
Ramesh Kumar Poudel (kp 26/10/2018)
Tourists
flock to Rara Lake after monsoon, by Raj Bahadur
Shahi (kp 25/10/2018)
Domestic
tourism on the rise during festive holidays, by
Santosh Pokharel (rep 24/10/2018)
Kathmandu
ranked fifth tourist destination of the world (rep
24/10/2018)
Nepalis
have
to pay entry fee to conservation areas: Nepalis will
have to pay Rs100 to enter the conservation areas.
SAARC nationals will now have to pay Rs1,000, while
other foreign nationals will be charged Rs3,000,
by Deepak Pariyar (kp 17/10/2018)
Rara
Lake lacks infrastructure to lure tourists, by
Zhou Shengping (kp 16/10/2018)
Over
19,000
tourists entered Nepal via Rasuwagadhi: In the entire
year of 2017, around 17,620 Chinese tourists had
visited Nepal, while in 2016, only 4,961 Chinese
tourists had come into Nepal via Rasuwagadhi, by
Himnath Devkota (rep 13/10/2018)
Imagine
Nepal to explore Rara (kp 11/10/2018)
Hotels
brimming with foreign tourists (rep 11/10/2018)
Lack
of access hinders Shey Phoksundo's tourism, by
Bishnu Prasad Devkota (rep 10/10/2018)
Online
visa application kiosk installed at Rasuwagadhi
immigration, by Himnath Devkota (kp 10/10/2018)
Tourist
season kicks off with 34pc growth (kp 09/10/2018)
Tourism
as soft power: Investing in the tourism industry will
do more than just generate income, by Bhuwan
Bhusal (kp 07/10/2018)
Hotel
Siddhartha View gets four-star rating, 7th in the
country (kp 07/10/2018)
Agitation
to bar tourists entry into Annapurna region (ht
28/09/2018)
Tourism
in the digital age: Time is ripe to realign the whole
ecosystem of tourism industry with the new technology,
by Sunil Sharma (rep 27/09/2018)
Annapurna
Circuit witnesses more trekkers flowing in: ATC is
known as one of the top 10 trekking routes in the
world (ht 26/09/2018)
Packages
abound as more Nepalis opt to travel, by Arpana
Ale Magar (rep 26/09/2018)
Boosting
Sino-Nepali tourism: The importance of connectivity
cannot be overemphasised in spurring tourism across
the borders, by Gao Liang (kp 23/09/2018)
Madi
homestays attracting tourists (rep 23/09/2018)
No
road expansion at ABC foot trail for next 30 years,
by Santosh Pokharel (rep 23/09/2018)
Lack
of health facilities on trekking route hits tourists
(ht 23/09/2018)
Foreign
tourist arrivals surge by 18.8 percent (kp
20/09/2018), ‘Prime
minister’s visit boosts tourist arrivals from China’,
by Arpana Ale Magar (rep 20/09/2018)
Together
for
tourism: Visit Nepal 2020 is going to gain fair amount
of global attention. But will we be able to brand it
internationally?, by Kabi Adhikari (rep
19/09/2018)
First
5-star hotel in Lumbini to start operation next month,
by Binod Pariyar (rep 16/09/2018)
Menu
of services along Manaslu trekking route set, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 15/09/2018)
Country’s
tourism promoted in Sichuan (ht 10/09/2018)
So
much to do: Tourism and Nepal are synonymous yet we
fail to capitalise it fully, by Nischal Dhungel
(kp 09/09/2018)
NTB
fails to pass budget due to delayed verdict (kp
06/09/2018)
Nepal’s
tourism
moment: Tourism industry can help Nepal burnish its
image abroad, emboldening its soft-power for a country
with negligible hard-power, by Nishan Kafle (rep
04/09/2018)
Centre
eliminates dubious emergency operators (kp
01/09/2018), Fake
rescue scam: Helicopter operators question taskforce
report (rep 03/09/2018)
Outbound
Nepali travellers spent almost Rs 80bn (ht
31/08/2018)
Silver
Heritage building casino resort in Jhapa (kp
28/08/2018)
NRB
report: Tourism income grows to record Rs67b last
fiscal (kp 27/08/2018), DoT
sees revenues rise by 26% (rep 27/08/2018)
Deplorable
road
affects Nagarkot entrepreneurs: Local bussinessmen
blame Shailung Construction for the sharp decline in
tourist numbers, by Anup Ojha (kp 26/08/2018)
NTB’s
budget in limbo over board controversy (kp
26/08/2018)
Up
in
the air: Bogus rescue operations are casting doubts on
Nepal’s ability to attract tourists while keeping them
safe and secure, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 25/08/2018)
If
we
want to bring more tourists: Why does not Nepal
Tourism Board open its branch offices in major
European cities to promote Nepali tourism?, by
Prem Lamichhane (rep 25/08/2018)
Government
to set up tourism satellite account, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 24/08/2018)
Realizing
tourism dream: This is the right time for Nepal to
establish the country as the world’s premier tourist
destination, by Rebanta Bahadur KC (rep
23/08/2018)
Fake
rescue
scam: Government initiates action against guilty
companies; Flight Connection Domestic alone received
$22.4 million in payments from insurance companies,
by Arpana Ale Magar (rep 21/08/2018), Global
insurers
threaten to stop cover for tourists: Four hospitals
Swacon International Hospital, Era Health Centre,
CIWEC Hospital and Vayodha Hospitals and three
helicopter companies Heli Everest, Manang Air and Air
Dynasty Heli Services are being scrutinised by the
government for quoting exorbitant rates and making
claims against tourist insurance policies, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 23/08/2018), Police-led
search,
rescue unit proposed: Local agents of international
rescue, insurance companies barred from getting
involved in search and rescue ops, by Rajan
Pokhrel (ht 23/08/2018), Ultimatum
issued to end tourist rescue fraud (ht 23/08/2018)
Tourist
arrivals up 18% in first seven months, entrepreneurs
unimpressed, by Arpana Ale Magar (rep 18/08/2018),
Tourist
arrivals soared in July (ht 18/08/2018), Tourist
arrivals in Nepal jumped 73.5 percent in July (kp
19/08/2018)
Dhunche-Gosaikunda
trail reopens after 10 days, by Himnath Devkota
(rep 15/08/2018)
Gandaki
Province to integrate all tourism fees into one,
by Santosh Pokharel (rep 13/08/2018)
Forgotten
backyard: Nepal’s far western region has tremendous
tourism potential that remains untapped, by
Rebanta Bahadur KC (kp 12/08/2018)
Tour
operators, South Korea sign MoU to promote tourism
ties (rep 11/08/2018), Nepal,
South
Korea seek to boost bilateral tourism: IIn 2017, as
many as 34,000 Korean tourists visited Nepal.
Currently, Korean Air operates four weekly fights
between Nepal and the South Korea (kp
12/08/2018)
Mentally-disturbed
tourists a headache for Tourist Police, by Diya
Dhakal (rep 11/08/2018)
How
Nepal
can lure Chinese tourists: Language is the main
barrier for Chinese tourists. Hotels in Nepal should
train their staffs in basic Chinese language and
culture, by Subas Chandra Dahal (rep 09/08/2018)
Trilateralism
via tourism: Promote people-to-people ties, by
Mani Raj Lamichhane and Biranchi Poudyal (ht 09/08/2018)
Tourists
returning to Langtang in hordes, by Balram Ghimire
(kp 08/08/2018)
Ambitious
Plan for Tourism Sector, by Nandalal Tiwari (rn
06/08/2018)
About
7,000 Chinese tourists visit Nepal via Rasuwagadhi
till July, by Himnath Devkota (rep 05/08/2018)
Govt
to develop 100 new tourist destinations this FY,
by Sagar Ghimire (rep 04/08/2018)
Chitlang
sizzles in new avatar as homestay spot, by Pratap
Bista (kp 03/08/2018)
Call
for turning Ratna Mandir into museum, by Lal
Prasad Sharma (kp 01/08/2018)
Homestay
flourishing in Namje village, by Rohit Rai (rep
01/08/2018)
Tourism
industry
unhappy after Casino Bill dropped: ‘The industry would
not attract foreign investment without a separate
Casino Act’, by Sangam Prasain (kp 01/08/2018)
Shakya's
hotel found to have encroached upon Fewa Lake, by
Prashant Lamichhane (rep 01/08/2018)
Hike
in
vehicle rental cost to make tour packages dearer:
Tourist vehicle service providers announce they will
be raising rental charges from October 1 (rep
30/07/2018)
1.36m
Indian tourists visited Nepal in 2017, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 29/07/2018)
The
Tamu Trek Trail: A new hiking route retracing the
heritage of the Gurung people is the new trekking
destination this autumn, by Jit Gurung (nt
27/07/2018)
Ministry
sets 10 milestone activities to attract Indian,
Chinese tourists (rep 22/07/2018)
Nepal-India
codeshare deal awaits Cabinet OK: Nepal and India
signed a revised ASA in 2010 but it does not permit
codesharing; The Nepali delegation led by Tourism
Joint SecretarySuresh Acharya had signed the pact
without getting the Cabinet’s go-ahead in December
2016 (kp 20/07/2018)
Nepal
hosted 520,014 foreign tourists in H1 (kp
18/07/2018)
Dangerous
development:
Nepal’s tourism has seen its share of tragedies over
the past years. Further tragedies will undermine
development potential of new trekking destinations
such as Manaslu, by Rune Bennike (rep 18/07/2018)
Province
7 awaits tourism promotion, by Dil Bahadur
Chhatyal (rep 17/07/2018)
Integrated
mountain rescue centers remain limited to paper,
by Arpana Ale Magar (rep 16/07/2018)
Int’l
airport spurs star hotel growth in Rupandehi, by
Binod Pariyar (rep 15/07/2018)
Boom
Time in Central Terai: Bhairawa and Lumbini are poised
for more growth with the completion of a new
international airport, by Sewa Bhattarai (nt
13/07/2018)
NTB
makes Visit Nepal 2020 pitch in Kolkata (kp
10/07/2018)
TAAN,
NTB purchase rescue materials worth Rs 1 million
(rep 09/07/2018)
NTB
promotes Nepal in India’s key cities (kp
08/07/2018)
Spotlight
on female trekking guides, by Manoj Ghartimagar
(rep 08/07/2018)
Clarion
call to increase tourists’ stay, spending in Nepal,
by Santosh Pokharel (kp 08/07/2018)
Pilgrims’
distress: It’s time to take urgent lessons from the
deaths along the Mansarovar route (kp 05/07/2018)
Jeep
safaris close down for monsoon (kp 03/07/2018)
Entrepreneurs
want more tourism budget for Pokhara, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 03/07/2018)
Govt
begins
pilot of agro tourism village: The government has
launched the community-based agro tourism village for
the first time targeting tourists who like greenery,
quiet and calm natural environment (kp
01/07/2018)
Lack
of direct air connectivity stifling Sri Lanka-Nepal
tourism (rep 30/06/2018)
Branding
tourism: Nepal’s tourism needs government’s policy
support and a brand to reap its utmost benefit, by
Aditya Baral (kp 29/06/2018)
‘Unnecessary
rescues’ soar in Nepal on profits from insurance
payouts (kp 29/06/2018)
Gosainkunda
rolls up its sleeves to boost tourism (kp
29/06/2018)
More
Mustang locals into homestay business, by Sushil
Babu Thakali (rep 26/06/2018)
Lalitpur
adopts ‘audio-visual’ guide system (ht 25/06/2018)
Off-season
closes hotels in Manasalu area, by Narahari
Sapkota (rep 24/06/2018)
China
to help Visit Nepal Year 2020 campaign (rep
24/06/2018)
Tourist
arrivals in May reach 68,825 (kp 21/06/2018), Tourist
arrivals grew in May (rep 21/06/2018)
Nepal
lands best travel booth award (kp 19/06/2018)
Nepal
promotes VNY 2020 in Hong Kong travel fair (rep
19/06/2018)
China
ups travelling charges for Kailash Manasarovar (kp
11/06/2018)
1st
ever East Tourism Mart a big draw (kp 11/06/2018)
Average
length of tourist stay drops to 7-year low, by
Arpana Ale Magar (rep 10/06/2018)
3rd
Himalayan Travel Mart slated for next June (kp
09/06/2018)
Govt
brings yet another policy to keep close tab on
foreigners (rep 09/06/2018)
Two-year-long
service
charge row resolved: Tips split six ways, hotel
employees will now get 72pc of the 10 percent service
charge (kp 08/06/2018), Service
charge dispute at hotels ends with new ‘sharing
structure’, by Sujan Dhungana (ht 08/06/2018)
PATA
ready to help Nepali tourism grow (ht 04/06/2018)
Budget
gives Rs 730m for tourism infrastructure: Nine tourism
bodies did not receive capital expenditure, by
Arpana Ale Magar (rep 03/06/2018)
Himalayan
Travel Mart throws open its doors (kp 02/06/2018)
More
Indians come to Nepal after Modi visit (rep
02/06/2018)
Visit
Nepal version 3.0 targets 2 million arrivals, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 31/05/2018), Tourism
fraternity baulk at target of two million annual
tourists by 2020: Statistics show foreign tourist
inflow surged by less than 250,000 in the last seven
years, by Sujan Dhungana (ht 01/07/2018)
Budget
fails to excite tourism sector (rep 30/05/2018)
Messy
road greets tourists: Authorities ‘unaware’ of the
muddy street in Thamel, by Anup Ojha (kp
29/05/2018)
Almost
half of foreign tourists in 2017 hailed from five
countries (ht 29/05/2018)
Changunarayan
witnessing fewer tourists (ht 28/05/2018)
Religious
tourism: After Modi visit, Janaki Temple charms Indian
tourists, by Shyam Sundar Shashi (kp 24/05/2018)
Nepal
loses service trade surplus (ht 24/05/2018)
PATA
elects Joshi as Chairman of Destination (kp
23/05/2018)
Investment
pouring in Itahari's hospitality sector, by Amar
Khadka (rep 21/05/2018)
Tourist
arrivals grow 11 percent in April (kp 18/05/2018)
Kailash
Manasarovar Yatra likely to see record numbers, by
Kalendra Sejuwal (kp 16/05/2018)
Himalayan
Travel Mart slated to open in June (kp 15/05/2018)
It
takes two to tango: The private sector leads tourism,
but the government plays a key role in promoting it,
by Aditya Baral (kp 14/05/2018)
Modi’s
visit could boost religious tourism, entrepreneurs say,
by Arpana Ale Magar (rep 12/05/2018)
Domestic
tourists seek thrill of bungee jumping, by Anish
Tiwari (kp 11/05/2018)
For
a few dollars more: You cannot sell Nepal if the first
and last impression is so bad, by Ted Atkins (nt
11/05/2018)
Wild
and deadly, by Yuvaraj Shrestha (nt 11/05/2018)
Riding
above the haze: Mountain biking with a mask is better
than no exercise at all, by Tyler McMahon (nt
11/05/2018)
Nepal
showcases local cuisines to lure tourists (kp
08/05/2018), Delicious
destinations: Gastronomy tourism is flourishing
globally, and Nepal is attempting to catch up, by
Sunil Sharma (kp 09/05/2018)
Nepali
cooking show to be live streamed today (kp
07/05/2018)
NRB
expands definition of 'tourism' for lending (rep
01/05/2018)
Trekking
entrepreneurs propose promoting Dolpo as 'Ambassador
Trail' (rep 29/04/2018)
‘Nepal
should
target tourists from MENA’: MENA could provide a huge
boost to arrival numbers and improve the fortunes of
Nepal’s tourism industry if NTB organises more tourism
promotion events in the Middle east and place higher
priority on digital promotion (kp 28/04/2018)
One
million rupees paid in compensation for porter’s death
during trekking expedition (ht 28/04/2018)
Government
readying DPR of a model tourist destination in each
province (ht 27/04/2018)
‘Natural
Nepal’ promoted in Mid-East (ht 27/04/2018)
Bihawar
tourism fair from April 28 (ht 26/04/2018)
GVA
growth in hotel, restaurant sector to reach 9.77
percent: CBS (rep 26/04/2018)
Safer
Himalayas: Measures must be put in place to ensure the
safety of visitors and local guides in the mountains
of Nepal, by Anustha Shrestha (kp 24/04/2018)
‘MoCTCA
working to bring in 1.5m tourists’ (ht 21/04/2018)
Seven
five-star hotels under construction complete EIA,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 17/04/2018)
Tourist
arrivals surge by 14.2 per cent (ht 17/04/2018)
Home
stay facilities in Lamjung luring tourists (ht
17/04/2018)
Oli
to open Karnali Rara Tourism Year (kp 14/04/2018)
Into
the heart of once forbidden realm, by Anita Bhuju
(rep 14/04/2018)
China
overtakes India as top source country for tourists,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 13/04/2018)
RKTY
visitors to be put up in villages (ht 13/04/2018)
Go
take a hike: The Mardi Trek is so wild you don't want
to brag about once it is over so it remains that way,
by Sewa Bhattarai (nt 13/04/2018)
Airport
construction triggers hotel boom in Rupandehi, by
Amrita Anamol (kp 12/04/2018)
Govt
to identify more than 100 tourist destinations (ht
12/04/2018)
Promoting
tourism: We must broaden scope, by Pramod Nepal
(ht 11/04/2018)
Khaptad
tourism body’s funding cut off due to irregularities,
by Mohan Shahi (kp 08/04/2018)
Rara
Lake visitors to be housed in villages, by Raj
Bahadur Shahi (kp 08/04/23018)
‘Tourists
go missing as they ignore regulations’, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 08/04/2018)
Khumbu
sees more tourists (ht 07/04/2018)
'Rs
17 billion new investment in tourism in 2017', by
Arpana Ale Magar (rep 02/04/2018)
Chitwan
National
Park tourist inflow up 7.5pc: Data shows 95,357
foreign and local tourists visited the wildlife park
in the first eight months this year (kp
01/04/2018)
Logo
and slogan unveiled for Karnali-Rara Tourism Year,
by Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep 01/04/2018), Lack
of facilities likely to mar Karnali Rara Tourism Year,
by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp 07/04/2018)
Disabled-friendly
trekking route constructed in Kaski (ht
01/04/2018), Asia’s
first
accessible trail opens in Pokhara: NTB built the trail
to attract a strong segment of accessible
tourists’ population (kp 02/04/2018)
Clipped
wings: As tourism grows globally, infrastructure
bottleneck could stunt growth of Nepal’s major
industry (kp 30/03/2018)
MoCTCA
to unveil 100-day action plan today (ht
30/03/2018), TourMin
issues100-day plan to revitalise tourism, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 31/03/2018)
More
tourists visiting Chitwan National Park (ht
29/03/2018)
Travel,
tourism pumps Rs195b into economy, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 28/03/2018)
Korea
Tours and Trekking Operator Association of Nepal
formed to boost tourist arrivals (ht 28/03/2018)
Entrepreneurs
in Nepal, India seek joint cooperation for tourism
promotion, by Bhim Chapagain (rep 25/03/2018)
Call
to open ancient foot trail of Queen Mayadevi, by
Manoj Paudel (kp 24/03/2018)
Hoteliers
seek proper infrastructure (ht 23/03/2018)
Government
urges entrepreneurs to diversify tourism products,
services (ht 22/03/2018)
Target
of 1.5 million foreign tourists by 2020 is gettable:
Stakeholders, by Arpana Ale Magar (rep 22/03/2018)
Chandragiri
safe for tourists: Tourism Minister (rep
22/03/2018)
Call
to construct tourist bus park near Thamel (kp
20/03/2018)
Planned
Buddhist Circuit tour remains on paper, by Manoj
Paudel (kp 20/03/2018)
Trekking
route explored in Pokhara’s periphery, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 20/03/2018)
Adventure
tourism expo on March 23 (kp 19/03/2018)
Nepal’s
tourism sector to suffer due to bad publicity from
aircraft crash (rep 17/03/2018)
Rara-Karnali
Visit Year to be observed to attract tourists (ht
12/03/2018), Province
6 announces Rara-Karnali Visit Year (kp
23/03/2018)
Entrepreneurs
worried at low tourist spending, by Arpana Ale
Magar (rep 12/03/2018)
Entrepreneurs
urge government to separate area for rafting, by
Arpana Ale Magar (rep 10/03/2018)
Adventure
tourism activities in the Annapurna Conservation Area
yet to be recognized, by Santosh Pokharel (rep
09/03/2018)
Cultural
laws, policies to be amended in spirit of federalism
(rep 07/03/2018)
Buddha's
home town Kapilvastu awaits pilgrims, visitors, by
Arpana Ale Magar (rep 06/03/2018)
Water
tourism brings cheer to Sindhupalchok, by Anish
Tiwari (kp 04/03/2018)
Pokhara
to launch first trekking trail for differently-abled
people (kp 03/03/2018)
Jungle
safari to go live at Banke Nat’l park, by Thakur
Singh Tharu (kp 02/03/2018)
Rs
210 million from tourism royalties lies stagnant in
Solukhumbu, by Radha Dhungana (rep 28/02/2018)
Traffic
jam: Tourism sector could replace floundering
remittance, provided infrastructure matches
aspirations (kp 23/02/2018)
Tea
tourism: Promoting Nepali product, by Youbaraj
Gautam (ht 21/02/2018)
'Tourism
contributed Rs 91b to GDP in 2017', by Arpana Ale
Magar (rep 21/02/2018)
Lumbini
turning into a pit stop: Hoteliers are losing out on
customers with tourists returning in haste (ht
20/02/2018)
Tourist
arrivals: Inbound flight bookings for April exceed 70
percent (kp 19/02/2018)
18,000
Chinese tourists entered Nepal via Rasuwagadhi in 2017,
by Himnath Devkota (kp 19/02/2018)
40k
Chinese tourists expected during Chinese New Year
(kp 16/02/2018)
Valley
hotels
net record profits in 2017: Arrivals to Nepal hit a
new record in 2017, resulting in hotel occupancy rate
at an average of 65 percent (kp 15/02/2018), Tourism
receipts up 27 percent to Rs 34 billion (rep
15/02/2018)
Service
in Chinese for Chinese tourists at TIA, by Arpana
Ale Magar (rep 14/02/2018)
Number
of group trekkers increasing, by Arpana Ale Magar
(rep 10/02/2018)
Winter
tour
packages in Rara Lake flop for lack of snow: Rara Lake
has remained deserted for the last two months because
of the winter cold, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp
05/02/2018)
Record
27k trekkers visit Annapurna via Lamjung, by Aash
Gurung (kp 04/02/2018)
Annapurna
region welcomed record 158,600 trekkers in 2017
(rep 01/02/2018)
Chitwan
National Park witnesses less tourists this fiscal
(ht 29/01/2018), Despite
bad road, floods, CNP sees surge in visitor numbers,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 30/01/2018)
Jungle
safari operators demand regulations (ht
28/01/2018)
Local
hotels, traders fleecing tourists in Simbhanjyang
(ht 28/01/2018)
Need
of tourist policing in all provinces stressed (ht
27/01/2018)
Nepal
to host accessible tourism meet in March (kp
22/01/2018)
Tourism
income hits Rs29.32b in five months (kp
20/01/2018)
Travel
traders design Lumbini tour packages, by Amrita
Anmol (kp 18/01/2018)
Water
canyoning in Parbat to attract tourists, by
Chhabilal Tiwari (rep 17/01/2018)
Ban
on elephant safari will kill business, say operators,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 16/01/2018)
All
proposals for agri-tourism grant disqualified:
Vegetables Development Directorate publishing notice
for proposals again, by Arpana Ale Magar (rep
16/01/2018)
Jeep
safari to cement Patihani as tourism spot, by
Bimal Khatiwada (kp 14/01/2018)
Lumbini
saw more than 1.55m tourists in 2017, by Amrita
Anmol (kp 13/01/2018)
Re-imagining
tourism:
Nepal is not land-locked, but land-linked, with
untapped potential for Indian, Chinese and domestic
Nepali tourism, by Anil Chitrakar (nt 12/01/2018)
Search
on for new trekking route to Kahphuche glacial lake
(ht 11/01/2018)
Ski
competition to be organized in October (rep
11/01/2018)
Three
hotels awarded 4-star rating by Tourism Department,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 03/01/2018)
Minimum
requirements relaxed for star hotels outside Valley
(kp 02/01/2018)
Tourist
arrival breaks the record of 2012, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 02/01/2018), Arrivals
hit
new high but fall short of 1 million target: The Nepal
Tourism Board has claimed that tourist arrivals
crossed the 1.05 million mark in 2017, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 04/01/2018), Nepal
welcomed record 940,000 visitors in 2017 (rep
04/01/2018)
2017
a satisfactory year for tourism, say entrepreneurs,
by Arpana Ale Magar (rep 01/01/2017)
Tensions
in tourism: Nepal’s middle class claim they are
‘unwanted guests’: Locals who want to join overseas
visitors in enjoying the country’s stunning mountains
say its tourist industry gives western trekkers
preferential treatment, by Pete Pattison (kp
30/12/2017)
Nepal
again fails to draw in one million tourists, by
Sujan Dhungana (ht 30/12/2017)
Home-stay
in Bhimdattanagar attracting tourists (ht
29/12/2017)
Tourist
Information Centre opens in Dhulikhel, by
Madhusudan Guragain (rep 28/12/2017)
Outbound
Nepalis spend more than foreign visitors to Nepal
(ht 26/12/2017)
Various
trekking routes constructed in Mustang (ht
26/12/2017)
Bhaktapur
attracts most tourists among Ktm Valley’s Durbar
Squares, by Ayam Shrestha (rep 26/12/2017)
Khumbu
rural
municipality collects Rs 40 million in tourist
entrance fee: 22,000 tourists enter the region in less
than three months, by Radha Dhungana (rep
24/12/2017)
Adventure
tourism: Nepal’s potentials, by Pravat Adhikari
(ht 19/12/2017)
17
applications received for agri tourism grant (rep
19/12/2017)
Buoyed
by election results, tourism aims for 5 million
arrivals (kp 15/12/2017) [??]
Mayors
of three tourism destinations unveil plan for tourism
development (rep 14/12/2017)
Tourism
growth spurs hotel expansion spree, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 13/12/2017)
No
takers for govt's agro-tourism promotion grant,
by Arpana Ale Magar (rep
11/12/2017)
Homestay
promotional programme launched, by Aas Gurung (kp
06/12/2017)
Hotels
in remote areas witness brisk business (ht
06/12/2017)
Homestay
service: Chitlang folk earning up to Rs100k a month,
by Pratap Bista (kp 05/12/2017)
Way
to do it: We need to develop Buddha’s birthplace in
such a way that visitors can be engaged intellectually
and emotionally, by Rajendra P. Adhikari (rep
04/12/2017)
Lost
in my own land, by Swasti Gautam (rep 01/12/2017)
Tiger
Palace Resort gets 5-star rating (kp 30/11/2017)
The
footfall
at the ABC is estimated to hit record high 50,000
tourists next year. But is it ready, or capable,
of entertaining such numbers?, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 25/11/2017)
Will
Nepal
be able to meet its goal of drawing million visitors
this year? Security concerns related to the upcoming
elections could be a dampener, say tourism
entrepreneurs, by Sujan Dhungana (ht 25/11/2017)
Eco
and agro tourism gains steam in Ilam, by Biplav
Bhattarai (kp 25/11/2017)
Strangers
in
our own land: From the first day of the trek, we felt
like unwelcomed guests at a party. Even guides and
porters seemed annoyed with Nepali tourists, by
Sandeep Poudyal (rep 21/11/2017)
Nepal
as
a Dharma destination: Tourism can help promote and
preserve traditional practices like shamanism.
But to do so, traditions need to keep evolving and
expanding to remain accessible to those who come
seeking it, by Sandesh Ghimire (kp 18/11/2017)
Country-specific
tourism marketing plan prepared (kp 18/11/2017)
Nepal
on track to hit magic figure of 1 million arrivals,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 16/11/2017), Breaking
records: Nepali tourism sector may well be on track to
attract 2.5m tourists by 2025 (kp 17/11/2017) [But the airpot is not!]
Local
govts defy centre’s order on ‘tourism fee’ (kp
08/11/2017) [It is bad for
tourism if the central government is not willing to
understand constitution and federal principles!]
Tourism
secy hopeful of early resolution of tourist tax
collection dispute (rep 30/10/2017)
The
mountains are calling, but not you: On being treated
as a second-class tourist in your own country, by
Shreya Paudel (kp 28/10/2017)
Investments
pour
into booming resort sector: estimates show that
hoteliers have injected more than Rs7 billion into
Chitwan’s hospitality industry, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 27/10/2017)
Bojhini:
A new favorite retreat in Changunarayan, by
Krishna KC (ht 26/10/2017)
Gyrocopters
set to take tourism to new heights, by Lal
Prasad Sharma (kp 25/10/2017)
Chitlang
makes a comeback as tourist destination, by Pratap
Bista (kp 24/10/2017)
MoFALD,
MoFA consult over resource-sharing, by Tika R.
Pradhan (kp 20/10/2017)
Tiger
Tops Hotel brings innovation to jungle safari (ht
16/10/2017)
High-way:
With
the opening of the Besisahar- Chame Sadak, Manang is
witnessing an unprecedented boom in tourism, but
concerns over safety continue to loom large, by
Bhim Ghimire and Aash Gurung (kp 14/10/2017)
Tourism
festival begins at Annapurna base camp (ht
13/10/2017)
Shey-Phoksundo
may
soon become a bus park, rather than a national park:
Shey-Phoksundo is used by outsiders and even the
government mainly for revenue extraction rather than
conservation, by Tsiring Lama (nt 13/10/2017), Stairway
to heaven: Make a once-in-lifetime pilgrimage to the
sacred landscape of Phoksundo Lake, by Kunda Dixit
(nt 13/10/2017)
Selling
Nepal on the Net: Digital marketing of Nepal’s tourism
is replacing traditional advertising, by Shreejana
Shrestha (nt 13/10/2017)
ACAP
allowing lodges on Annapurna BC trail to add rooms:
Trekkers sleeping on floors, corridors in lack of
rooms, by Santosh Pokharel (rep 11/10/2017)
Destination
Nepal:
With proper planning, investment and adequate
infrastructure, domestic tourism can work wonders for
the country, by Saurav Bashyal (ht 08/10/2017)
Star
hotels slash room rates (ht 08/10/2017)
Chinese
man fined Rs 25,000 for using drone (kp
07/10/2017)
Domestic
tourists visiting Manang make most out of Dashain
break (rep 07/10/2017)
CAAN
brings new rules for paragliding companies: Asks
companies to operate flights only between 10 am and
3:30 pm, by Santosh Pokharel (rep 07/10/2017)
Alternative
trail to Tilicho Lake now open for trekkers, by
Hari Krishna Gautam (rep 06/10/2017)
Tourism
in Langtang on the upswing, by Balram Ghimire (kp
06/10/2017)
Raze,
retrofit
or rebuild? Instead of tearing down damaged Rana-era
buildings, turn them into heritage hotels to give
tourism a boost, by Sahina Shrestha (nt
06/10/2017)
Pokhara
brimming with domestic tourists, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 05/10/2017)
Tourist
standard hotels record tepid business during Dashain
this year (ht 05/10/2017)
Rural
municipality starts collecting tourism fee in Everest
region, by Kumbha Raj Rai (kp 05/10/2017)
Call
to attract Indian and Chinese tourists to Nepal
(ht 26/09/2017)
Baglung
benefits from Muktinath tourism, by Prakash Baral
(kp 24/09/2017)
Chinese
tourism promoted in Nepal (ht 21/09/2017)
Paradigms
of tourism: Nepal is not developing as it should to
capture its true tourism potential, by Aditya
Baral (kp 19/09/2017)
Ban
on travel business lifted in Annapurna, by
Ghanashyam Khadka (kp 19/09/2017)
Nepal
participates in PATA Travel Mart 2017 (ht
19/09/2017)
Hotels
could accommodate 1.6m tourists by 2020 (ht
18/09/2017)
Additional
fee for foreigners in Khumbu: Opinion divided on the
issue of rural municipality’s fee (ht 17/09/2017),
Act
locally:
The constitution enables the local government to
collect local taxes such as property tax, land revenue
tax and tourism promotion fee for sustainability
(ht 18/09/2017) [This is
absolutely correct, but Nepal should avoid double
taxation of tourists since the country depends on
them! So, pleade stop the taxation on the central
lever under the federal structure!], Experts
call for constitutional clarity on tourism tax, by
Arpana Ale Magar (rep 19/09/2017)
Annapurna
trek draws tourists in droves (kp 14/09/2017), Annapurna
Circuit bustling with a surge in tourists, by
Nabin Lamichhane (rep 14/09/2017)
Tourist
spending
decreases despite increase in arrivals; Cut-throat
competition among hotels behind low tourist
expenditures: Entrepreneurs, by Arpana Ale Magar
(rep 12/09/2017)
‘Visit
Nepal Year’ planned for 2020 (ht 11/09/2017)
NTB
proposes record Rs1.35b budget for 2017-18 (kp
10/09/2017)
Buddhist
pilgrims
return to Lumbini after floods: Before the floods, 600
tourists used to enter nepal daily. in september,
pilgrims particularly from thailand,south Korea,
Vietnam and China visit the birthplace of Buddha,
by Madhav Dhungana (kp 09/09/2017)
Community
development: Role of tourism, by Reshu Bashyal (ht
05/09/2017)
Sarangkot:
A place for thrill in monsoon, by Santosh Pokharel
(rep 05/09/2017)
Number
of women trek guides on rising trend, by Lal
Prasad Sharma (kp 04/09/2017)
Fulbari
Resort closed due to labour dispute, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 02/09/2017)
Exporters
may have to sell 20pc goods in local market (kp
02/09/2017)
Tiger
Palace
casino resort slated to open on September 15: The
casino aims to provide expanded gaming opportunities
to customers from the growing Indian, Chinese and
Bangladeshi markets (kp 31/08/2017)
Hello
Doctor service to be launched in Everest region
(kp 29/08/2017)
Tourism
in Lumbini plunges after floods, by Madhav
Dhungana (kp 27/08/2017)
62
tourists gone missing in five years: Srtatus of 51
still unknown, by Khilak Budhathoki (rep
27/08/2017)
Tourism
earnings hit record Rs58.52b last fiscal year (kp
25/08/2017)
Nepalis
spent Rs 80 billion on travel last fiscal year (ht
24/08/2017)
Hotel
occupancy drops as visitors stay away (ht
24/08/3027)
After
flood fury, Sauraha struggles to get back on its feet,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 20/08/2017)
Visit
Nepal Year put off due to rebuilding delays, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 18/08/2017)
Sauraha
hotels preparing to resume operation, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (rep 16/08/2017)
Flood
leaves tourists stranded in Sauraha, by Bimal
Khatiwada and Shiva Puri (kp 14/08/2017), Normalcy
returns to Sauraha: It may take some more time for
tourists to return to famous jungle safari destination,
by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 15/08/2017)
Nepal
tourism excited by prospect of boom year (kp
13/08/2017)
Annapurna
Trekking Circuit turning risky for tourists due to
landslips (ht 12/08/2017)
Govt
body says no permit given for Shakya’s Fewa resort,
by Prashant Lamichhane (rep 11/08/2017)
Jomsom
in the off-season: Don’t let the rains deter you from
visiting Mustang in the monsoon, by Sean Shoemaker
(nt 11/08/2017)
Langtang
sees tourist numbers rebound, by Balaram Ghimire
(kp 05/08/2017)
Himalayan
Travel Mart to be organised every year (ht
03/08/2017)
Tourist
inflow
via air sees exponential growth: Arrivals this year
expected to surpass the previous record of 803,000 set
in 2012, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 02/08/2017)
Tourism
potential of Budhinanda region remains unexplored,
by Krishna Oli (rep 02/08/2017)
Tourism
development to be prioritised at local level: DPM
Mahara (ht 01/08/2017)
Nepalmandal
campaigners call for developing Kathmandu Valley into
a cultural city (rep 01/08/2017)
Elephant-back
safaris stopped, by Nabin Poudel (kp 29/07/2017)
Chitwan
tourism seeks new route for travel, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 26/07/2017)
Poor
road condition hits Chitwan tourism, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 21/07/2017), Chitwan
hotels’ road to recovery literally blocked by
landslides, construction, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel
(rep 21/07/2017)
Hanumandhoka
entry fee hiked for tourists (ht 20/07/2017)
Floods,
landslips
deal blow to tourism in Pokhara (ht 18/07/2017)
Activists
launch
campaign to transform city into tourist hub (ht
13/07/2017)
Tourist
spending
jumps 41.9pc: Yet country’s services trade
surplus of the country is gradually narrowing
(kp 12/07/2017)
New
monetary policy allowing hotels to exchange foreign
currency welcomed, by Arpana Ale Magar (rep
12/07/2017)
New
hotels
worry old players, by Sangam Prasain (kp
11/07/2017)
Tourist-standard
hotel
thrives in Taplejung (kp 09/07/2017)
Tatopani
border closure has its toll on Pokhara tourism, by
Santosh Pokhrel (rep 09/07/2017)
India
grants
double entry e-visa facility to foreign tourists :
With the double-entry benefits, tourists coming India
can visit Nepal and can return to India within the
stipulated time (kp 09/07/2017)
First
meeting
of Network of BIMSTEC Tour Operators ends (ht
08/07/2017)
Fortunate
karma:
Buddhist tourism can be a path to our prosperity
because of the presence of the holy site of Lumbini in
Nepal, by Atindra Dahal (kp 07/07/2017)
Promotion
of
Nepal’s tourism in South Asian region sought (ht
05/07/2017)
Tour
operators
call for good transport services: Travel traders from
Pokhara are currently in Patna to conduct the sixth
edition of the ‘Go Pokhara’ campaign organised by the
Paschimanchal Hotel Association and the NTB in the
Indian city, by Deepak Pariyar (kp 04/07/2017)
Arabian
guests, new attraction for Pokhara's hospitality
industry, by Santosh Pokharel (rep 04/07/2017)
Soaring
Indian
arrivals boost Pokhara tourism, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 01/07/2017)
Surkhet's
first homestay to welcome guests from October, by
Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep 30/06/2017)
Tourism
in Everest thrives on animal abuse, by Neeraj
Chandra Roy (rep 30/06/2017)
Tourism
promotion
campaign in neighbouring cities of India (ht
29/06/2017)
Manang
brimming with tourists even in off-season, by
Santosh Pokharel (rep 29/06/2017)
Chandragiri
emerging
as a major tourist destination (kp 24/06/2017)
Paraglider
numbers
jumped twofold to 19k last year (kp 24/06/2017)
KMC
Mayor’s 101-point plan: Tourism entrepreneurs not
impressed, by Arpana Ale Magar (rep 24/06/2017)
Govt
drafts
immigration strategic plan (ht 22/06/2017)
Everest
Hospitality
to launch five-star deluxe Marriott in Naxal next
March (kp 21/06/2017), IFC,
FMO
invest $5.5m in Fairfield Marriot Hotel (ht
21/06/2017)
View
tower
being constructed in Bedkot: The project, which aims
to attract foreign and domestic tourists, lies 22 km
north of Mahendranagar (ht 17/06/2017)
Six
years on, one million tourists target still eludes
govt, by Arpana Ale Magar (rep 17/06/2017)
Fulbari
Resort shut since Feb over workers' strike, by
Santosh Pokharel (rep 15/06/2017)
Pokhara
sees more self-drive tourists from India (rep
14/06/2017)
Jagan
Timilsina’s
journey to the podium of the Great Himal Race, a
44-day, 1,600km race through the high Himalayas, from
Kanchenjunga in the east to Hilsa in the west, by
Anuj D Adhikary (kp 10/06/2017)
Spending
plunges,
length of stay hits 12-year high (kp 07/06/2017)
Himalayan
travel
mart 2017: 1st Int’l bloggers meet begins in Kathmandu
(kp 02/06/2017)
NATTA
signs
agreement to promote tourism in China (kp
27/05/2017)
Hotel
chain
OYO debuts in Nepal; rates start from IRs999 (kp
24/05/2017)
Nature
tourism:
With 71.5 million tourists, tourism in the Hindu Kush
Himalaya plays a potentially significant role in
addressing poverty, by Janita Gurung and Anu
Kumari Lama (rep 22/05/2017), Rich
in diversity: The challenge is to carry out tourism
activities sustainably, without harming our
biodiversity, by Shankar Adhikari (rep 22/05/2017)
Sustainable
tourism:
Alternate livelihood opportunities are needed to
motivate local people in conservation, by Bharat
Gotame (kp 21/05/2017), Biodiversity
and
tourism: Any tourism concept should be developed on
the basis of a landscape’s potential and knowledge of
the risks involved, by Lipy Adhikari and
Pratikshya Kandel (kp 21/05/2017)
Several
hotel
chains to enter Nepal (kp 20/05/2017), Brands
that
matter: Entry of international hotel chains will raise
standards of the hospitality sector (kp
23/05/2017)
Flow
of
Indian tourists to surge (ht 19/05/2017)
Services
exports
jump 20.6pc on tourism hike (kp 18/05/2017)
Chitwan
to
remain open for tourists on election day, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 14/05/2017)
Himalayan
Travel
Mart prep nears completion (kp 12/05/2017), Nepal
set
to host travel mart from June 1 (ht 12/05/2017)
NTB
to
open shuttle service from Tribhuvan Int’l Airport on
election day (kp 12/05/2017) [And
what about travellers who are not going to stay in
five-star hotels???]
Quota
system
worries Kailash tour operators, by Sangam Prasain
and Krishna Prasad Gautam (kp 10/05/2017)
Unstable
room occupancy rates worry Pokhara hoteliers, by
Santosh Pokharel (rep 03/05/2017)
Pokhara
begins
search for new trekking trails, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 26/04/2017)
Hoteliers
seek foreign currency exchange facility; Hotels can
only receive payments in foreign currency: NRB
(rep 26/04/2017)
Need
to
cash in on China’s outbound boom stressed (kp
20/04/2017)
Revenue
sharing:
NTB, TAAN close to ending dispute after four years
(kp 18/04/2017)
Nepal
named
top travel destination (kp 17/04/2017)
The
Guardian names Nepal as No 1 destination for Britons
(rep 17/04/2017)
New
Year
celebrations in Pokhara a success, by Lalprasad
Sharma (kp 16/04/2017)
Whitewater
rafting
spurs Sindhupalchok tourism, by Anish Tiwari (kp
15/04/2017)
Mustang
reveals
its secrets via tourism (kp 13/04/2017)
Khumbu
Hotels chock-a-block with tourists, by Radha
Dhungana (rep 13/04/2017)
3-star
Hotel
Mulberry to open on Friday (kp 13/04/2017)
Rupakot
set
for Tourism Fest to promote the region: The festival
will start on Friday coinciding with New Year’s Day of
Bikram Sambat, by Dambar Singh Rai (kp 12/04/2017)
Expenses
of
Nepali outbound travellers rise to Rs 50.64bn (ht
10/04/2017)
Tourists
avoiding
Chitwan due to bad road conditions, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 07/04/2017), Chitwan
blues
Tourists are abandoning the popular jungle safari
destination due to concerns about road safety (kp
11/04/2017)
Tap
and
tour: Bhuntu is a smart phone app that explains
Nepal’s culture from the perspective of locals, by
Clara Bullock (nt 07/04/2017)
IFC
offers
to invest: $100m in tourism: The strategy envisages a
fivefold increase in foreign tourist arrivals to 2.52
million annually (kp 06/04/2017)
Visitors
to EBC swell, by Radha Dhungana (rep 05/04/2017)
NTB
to
spend $1m on promotional campaign (kp 04/04/2017),
NTB
signs
agreements with BBC, Reuters and TripAdvisor for
promotion (ht 04/04/2017)
KMC
to
operate sightseeing buses (kp 02/04/2017)
Tourism
pumped
Rs177b into Nepal’s economy, by Sangam Prasain (kp
31/03/2017)
City-centric
home
stay troubling hotel industry: Hoteliers (ht
30/03/2017) [??], Hotel
concerns:
If the number of tourists could be increased by
developing new products of tourism, the hotel industry
would hardly have to be scared of homestay (ht
31/03/2017)
New
trekking
routes identified at Dhaulagiri and Kanjirowa (kp
29/03/2017)
Masterplan
proposed
to develop Byas cave as religious tourism site (ht
25/03/2017)
Nepal-Europe
Travel Summit 2017 concludes (rep 25/03/2017)
Tourism
is
changing: If Nepal does not keep up with the pace of
transformation, it’s going to miss the bus, by
Aditya Baral (kp 22/03/2017)
Tourism
fair
kicks off in Far Western region, by Bhawani Bhatta
(kp 18/03/2017)
Pokhara
in the list of 'World's Best Spring Trips' (rep
18/03/2017)
Credit
flow to service sector jumps 12 percent as tourism
rebounds (rep 15/03/2017)
Foreign
exchange
facility from hotels illegal, says central bank
(ht 14/03/2017)
Shutdowns
hit tourism industry hard, by Santosh Pokharel
(rep 13/03/2013)
Hotel
occupancy
rate rebounds to 60 per cent (ht 13/03/2017)
Tansen
blossoms
as new hotels sprout, by Madhav Aryal (kp
11/03/2017)
Women
work
to promote tourism (ht 11/03/2017)
Tourists
flock
to Chunpahara Cliff in Tanahun for rock climbing
(ht 07/03/2017)
Annapurna
Group
takes over Jagatpur (kp 06/03/2017)
Sauraha:
Reconnecting
with nature, by Keshav Thapa (kp 04/03/2017)
Green
tourism:
If tourism and horticulture can be linked Nepal stands
to make robust and sustainable economic progress,
by Bhairab Raj Kaini (rep 04/03/2017)
Travel
ban
to be lifted in northern regions (kp 04/03/2017)
Home
stays
to promote local culture (kp 03/03/2017)
Rafting
in
Seti a big hit at far-western festival (ht
02/03/2017)
Rara
area
sees jump in real estate investment, by Raj
Bahadur Shahi (kp 25/02/2017)
Trekkers
return
in droves to Annapurna, by Aash Gurung (kp
23/02/2017)
Tourists
flock
back to Manaslu area, by Sudip Kaini (kp
20/02/2017)
Local
visitors
flock Ghalegaun, by Ramji Rana (ht 20/02/2017)
To
escape the crowd (rep 17/02/2017)
2
million by 2020: Nepal has set an ambitious target to
increase tourist numbers, but is it realistic?, by
Shreejana Shrestha (nt 17/02/2017), Inbound
rebound (nt 17/02/2017)
Agitating
hotel,
restaurant staffers warn of further protests (ht
12/02/2017)
Chitlang
boosts
homestay services as arrivals jump, by Pratap
Bista (kp 11/02/2017)
Over
63,000 travelled to Chitwan National Park in 6 months,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 04/02/2017)
Cases
of
high-altitude sickness rising among Nepali trekkers,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 30/01/2017)
Annapurna
region sees 45% more trekkers in 2016, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 30/01/2017)
Hi-Aim
2017
meet to be held next month: The event aims to be a
common knowledge sharing platform to confer and
exchange ideas on key issues and emerging trends in
the hospitality industry (kp 30/01/0217)
Resorts
to
be allowed back in Chitwan National Park: Govt forms a
high-level committee to recommend the operation modality
of the resorts inside the park (kp 26/01/2017)
Ski
tourism:
Make the most of it, by Pratap Adhikari (ht
25/01/2017)
Home
stay
to retain tourists (ht 24/01/2017)
Service
charge
issue reignites as workers demand entire amount:
Hotels, customers want end to compulsory tip that is
added to bill (kp 23/01/2017), Trade
unions give 3-week ultimatum to hotels (rep
23/01/2017)
'Put
vulture
restaurants on the tourist map' (jht 21/01/2017)
Bored
by
politics: The hospitality culture is Nepal’s
greatest tourism asset, and it is in danger of
waning, by Aditya Baral (kp 20/01/2017)
Cantilever
trail, by Sonia Awale (nt 20/01/2017)
Hotels
operating
in ACAP start getting registered, by Aash Gurung
(kp 18/01/2017)
Tilaurakot
hosted
over 36k tourists in 2016, by Manoj Paudel (kp
18/01/2017)
Clarion
call
for incorporating GHT as nat’l pride project (kp
16/01/2017)
Homestay
service
thriving in Ghale Gaun (ht 14/01/2017)
Nepal
tourism
makes spectacular rebound, by Sangam Prasain (kp
12/01/2017), Turnaround
in
tourism: Nepal needs to do more to improve on last
year’s tourist arrival figures (kp 13/01/2017)
CNP
lodge
makes it to CNN’s list of boutique hotels (ht
08/01/2017)
Showcasing
Dolpo, by Anuj D. Adhikary (kp 07/01/2017)
Nepal
expects
fillip from tourism promo in China: Nepal has
witnessed constant growth in Chinese tourist arrivals
since June 2009 (kp 07/01/2017)
Annapurna
circuit
welcomes record 22k foreign trekkers, by Aash
Gurung (kp 06/01/2017)
Lumbini
hosts
over a million tourists in 2016, by Amrita Anmol
(kp 03/01/2017)
10
domestic
travel destinations you can’t afford to miss in 2017
(kp 01/01/2017)
NTB
to
promote Nepal in Europe in 2017 (ht 01/01/2017), NTB
to
launch tourism campaign in Europe (kp 02/01/2017),
Visit
Nepal-Europe 2017 campaign on the cards (rep
02/01/2017)
Pokhara
abuzz
with tourists for English New Year (ht 31/12/2016)
Government
set
to amend Travel and Trekking Guideline: Mandatory
registration of tourism organisations at DoT proposed,
by Sujan Dhungana (ht 30/12/2016)
Upbeat
Pokhara
tourism looks forward to 2017, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 29/12/2016)
Trekking
trails exploration, maintenance in TAAN priority
(rep 28/12/2016), TAAN
allocates
funds for trekking infradevelopment (ht
29/12/2016), TAAN
unveils
Rs100m dev, promotional plan (kp 30/12/2016)
Tourist
buses
to be given access through Narayangadh-Muglin road
(ht 26/12/2016)
PM
inaugurates
Guerrilla Trail, Insurgency Museum (ht 25/12/2016)
China
issues
travel restriction to Nepal: Move could be a major
setback for Nepali tourism that was seeing gradual
growth, by Anil Giri and Sangam Prasain (kp
24/12/2016), No
restrictions
on Chinese Tourists: Chinese embassy in Kathmandu has
denied rumours of official restrictions on the travel
of Chinese tourists to Nepal, by Qiu Tian and Pan
Lan (nt 30/12/2016)
Discovering
the joys of skiing (rep 23/12/2016)
Sewage
from
local hotels polluting Phewa Lake, by Birendra KC
(kp 20/12/2016)
Demonetisation
in
India to hit tourism in Nepal: NRB (ht 17/12/2016)
Elephant
safari
okayed in four more buffer zones, by Shiva Puri (kp
14/12/2016)
Special
provisions
for hotels sought in supplementary budget (ht
14/12/2016)
Inflow
of
foreign tourists up 32pc, by Sujan Dhungana (ht
09/12/2016)
At
home
abroad: Heritage homes in Kathmandu’s historic towns
appeal to a new breed of visitors, by Jessica Cortis
(nt 09/12/2016)
Pokhara’s
hotel
boom spreads to valley rim: Currently, 20
tourist-standard hotels are rapidly coming up in
Pokhara, and most of them are located at vantage
points far from the city, by Birendra KC (kp
08/12/2016)
Himalayan
Travel
Mart to kick off from June 1 (kp 05/12/2016), Nepal
to
host travel mart in June (ht 05/12/2016)
Tourist
arrival
doubles in Chitwan National Park (ht 02/12/2016), Tourism
rebounds
with a vengeance in Sauraha, by Shiva Puri (kp
03/12(2016)
Healing
Langtang:
Australian researchers caught up in avalanche last year
building a cultural museum to boost tourism, by
Jessica Cortis (nt 02/12/2016)
NTB
launches
tourism campaign (kp 01/12/2016)
A
new trajectory: The tourism industry should be shaken up
to attract new ideas and quality visitors, by Aditya
Baral (kp 29/11/2016)
Hoteliers
highlight
challenges in sector (ht 29/11/2016)
Tourism
businesses
optimistic despite disasters, says study: About 57
percent of the businesses said they were thinking
about diversifying their business within tourism
(kp 28/11/2016)
Whitewater
challenge
in Seti River starts today, by Santosh Pokharel (rep
28/11/2016)
Soaltee
opened
its doors to guests 50 years ago (kp 26/11/2016)
Entrepreneurs
demand
three-day permits to tourists visiting CNP, by Shiva
Puri (kp 23/11/2016)
Taking
over
the eastern skiesBoasting dazzling views of both the
Himalayas and the vast Tarai, will Dharan emerge as the
next paragliding hub?, by Birat Anupam (kp
19/11/2016)
Mountaineering
tourism
conference begins (ht 19/11/2016)
Promising
yet
untapped Mid-west, by Bharat Bandhu Thapa (kp
19/11/2016)
TAAN
for
striking a balance between conservation, development
(rep 19/11/2016)
Palpa
hotel
sector sees a boom, by Mukti Prasad Nyaupane (rep
14/11/2016)
Tourists
complain
of mismanagement in Rara (ht 14/11/2016)
Chinese
make
up half of arrivals to Poon Hill, by Ghanshyam
Khadka (kp 11/11/2016)
TAAN
accuses
Nepal Tourism Board of misusing trekker fees: Foreign
trekkers are required to obtain a TIMS card by paying a
fee ranging from $10 to $20 per person (kp
09/11/2016)
Maipokhari
luring
more tourists, by Bhim Chapagain (rep 08/11/2016)
Four-star
hotel
comes up in Nepalgunj outskirts, by Tekendra Basyal
(rep 08/11/2016)
Muktinath
sees
hotel construction boom as number of tourists jumps,
by Lal Prasad Sharma (kp 07/11/2016)
Migrant
Workers
As Tourism Ambassadors, by Birat Anupam (kp
05/10/2016)
Discovering
Eastern
Nepal (rep 04/10/2016)
Around
the
valley: When the sky is clear, a magnificent view from
the eastern part of the Annapurna range to Gaurishanker
in the east greets you when you reach the top of the
hill, by Usha Upadhyay (rep 04/11/2016)
NTB
announces
holiday packages targeting domestic tourists (kp
31/10/2016)
Domestic
adventure
seekers throng Annapurna Circuit: Around 1,800 Nepali
trekkers have been arriving daily since the start of the
Dashain festival, by Lal Prasad Sharma (kp
28/10/2016)
Nepal
named
the world’s ‘best value destination’ (kp 26/10/2016)
Madhes
and
tourism: Abundant potential, by Ram Dayal Rakesh (ht
26/10/2016)
Untapped
potential:
The necessary infrastructure should be built to enhance
earnings from tourism as Nepal is among the must-visit
tourism sites in the world (ht 25/10/2016)
Tourist
arrivals
in BNP up by 42 per cent (ht 24/10/2016)
Paragliding
to
be introduced in Baitadi (ht 24/10/2016)
Soaltee
to
open 4-star hotel in Nepalgunj (kp 21/10/2016)
Lomanthang
attracting
domestic tourists (ht 21/10/2016)
Chandragiri
by
cable car: A destination for family outings and weekend
getaways, by Bachhu BK (nt 21/10/2016)
A
ridge too far: Even for the not so religious minded, the
remote Badimalika Trek could be a pilgrimage to the
natural wilderness, by Madhu Sudan Dahal (nt
21/10/2016)
Illegal
use
of camera drones goes unchecked in Khumbu, by Kumbha
Raj Rai (kp 19/10/2016)
Roads
stealing
charm of trekking in Annapurna region, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 17/10/2016)
Tourists
throng
Madi, Seti rivers for rafting (ht 16/10/2016)
Dhampus
declaration
issued (ht 16/10/2016)
Surkhet
expecting
influx of visitors: Traveler movement to Karnali from
Surkhet has increased significantly due to direct air
connectivity with Kathmandu, by Prakash Adhikari (kp
15/10/2016)
Tourist
arrivals
to Ghale Gaun soar during fest, by Aash Gurung (kp
14/10/2016)
Low
air
connectivity hinders tourism recovery (ht
14/10/2016)
NRNA
aims
to bring 1.6m foreign tourists to Nepal within 2017
(ht 07/10/2016)
Putting
Dolakha
back on the map: Tourism can help earthquake-ravaged
district rise up from the rubble, by Sahina Shrestha
(nt 07/10/2017)
Driving
you
up the wall: Rock climbing is catching on as the next
big thing in the country for thrill seekers and fitness
enthusiasts, by Samriddhi Rai (nt 07/10/2016)
Taan,
Keep
in partnership (kp 03/10/2016)
Indo-Pak
tensions
affect Nepal's tourism sector: International tourists
start cancelling bookings; 60 percent tourists come to
Nepal via India , by Santosh Pokharel (rep
03/10/2016)
No
business
like snow business, by Astha Joshi (kp 01/10/2016)
Trouble
in
Shangrila: Another Tourism Day passes while we continue
to struggle with a litany of problems, by Ganga
Sagar Pant (kp 30/09/2016)
Travel
and
tourism: Nepal should enhance its travelling experience
to draw 2.52 million tourists annually by 2025 (kp
28/09/2016)
TAAN
organises
‘Heritage Walk’ in Capital (ht 27/09/2016)
Dearth
of
tourists steals Pokhara's tourism day fanfare, by
Santosh Pokharel (rep 27/09/2016)
Dashing
off:
Surrounded by rough terrain and scenery, Kathmandu
Valley’s rim is a trail runner’s delight, by Smriti
Basnet (nt 23/09/2016)
Entreprenuers
call
on govt to promote organic agro tourism (ht
17/09/2016)
Growth
spurt
predicted for hospitality industry, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 16/09/2016)
Tourist
police
post set up in Nagarkot (kp 15/09/2016)
Ignorance
hurting
Palpa's tourism potential, by Mukti Prasad Nyaupane
(rep 13/09/2016)
Barring
nepalis
from using tourist buses: Pokhara businessmen plan to
pressure govt, by Birendra KC (kp 11/09/2016)
Nepal
explores
opportunities at PATA Travel Mart (ht 09/09/2016)
The
world’s
best whitewater: The topographical extreme that gives
Nepal the highest mountains in the world also endows the
country with the wildest rivers for whitewater rafting,
by Samriddhi Rai (nt 09/09/2016)
Tourists
continue
to enter Upper Mustang without necessary permit (rep
03/09/2016)
Round
Table
aims to push Nepal tourism (kp 01/09/2016)
Tourism
added
Rs85b to Nepal’s GDP: WTTC, by Sangam Prasain (kp
26/08/2016)
Go
Do
Phoksundo: Dolpa lake in the monsoon is a precious jewel
in Nepal’s crown, by Jay Poudyal (nt 26/08/2016), Trekking
as
if people mattered: In Dolpa, as elsewhere, it is not
simply a question of ‘more’ tourism, but tourism of the
‘right’ kind, by Joy Stephens (nt 26/08/2016)
Thrill
and
chill in Pokhara: The Lake City is now more renowned as
a place for both chill and thrill seekers, by
Samriddhi Rai (nt 26/08/2016)
Tourist
arrivals
jump 13pc in first half of ’16, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 22/08/2016)
The
Otherworld, by Anuj Adhikary (kp 20/08/2016)
Chitlang
Heritage
Trail: Mixing history with adventure and fun on the old
trail to Kathmandu, by Samriddhi Rai (nt 12/08/2016)
Nepal
in
NatGeo’s list of 10 places hat deserve more travellers
(kp 11/08/2016)
NTB
passes
Rs1.12b budget to revive crippled tourism (kp
11/08/2016)
Accommodation
cost
rises on Annapurna Base Camp trek route (ht
09/08/2016), Unnecessary
row:
The locals’ decision
to increase the prices for their services by 10 per cent
will not in any way affect the arrival of foreign
tourists who will be ready to pay the increased prices
(ht 10/08/2016) [In any way, it
is less than the yearly rate of inflation!!]
Decline
in
Chinese arrivals concerns Pokhara tourism, by Lal
Prasad Sharma (kp 31/07/2016)
Nepal
tourism
sets goal to boost arrivals fivefold, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 29/07/2016)
NTB
promo
campaign in India (kp 27/07/2017)
New
regulation
to promote adventure tourism sector (kp 24/07/2016)
Minister
hails
Sherpas’ role in tourism development (ht 15/07/2016)
but: Sherpas
denied
summit certificates, by Rajan Pokhrel (kp
15/07/2016) [Only those who are
carried by the Sherpas to the top get certificates, not
the real heroes?]
Road
disruption
from Narayangadh to Muglin hits tourism hard (ht
15/07/2016)
The
Holy
Hike: This monsoon, combine a trek with a pilgrimage in
the mystical dales of Khaptad National Park, by
Binita Dahal (nt 15/07/2015), Falling
with
water: Why canyoning in Jalbire's all-natural water
theme park should be your go-to adventure this monsoon,
by Samriddhi Rai (nt 15/07/2016)
Districts
getting
more tourists given less budget: Rasuwa gets Rs 100,000,
Gulmi Rs 35.7 million, by Rudra Pangeni (kp
12/07/2016) [??]
Tourism
board
to promote Nepal on CNN, BBC World (kp 08/07/2016)
Tourist
spending,
stay rise as arrivals plunge, by Sangam Prasain (kp
05/07/2016), Tourism
At
A Crossroads, by Hari Prasad Shrestha (rn
05/07/2016)
Karnali
Tourism
entrepreneurs Society formed (kp 01/07/2016)
The
domestic
travel dilemma, by Priyanka Gurung (rep 01/07/2016)
41
erring
foreigners expelled in one year (ht 29/06/2016)
Honeyguide
to
launch ‘Trekking in Nepal’ app: The application will
serve to bridge the knowledge gap among travellers,
guides and other stakeholders in the industry (kp
26/06/2016)
Sauraha
tourism
struggles to recover after disasters, by Shiva Puri
(kp 22/06/2016)
Paragliders
fear
being displaced by airport, by Lal Prasad Sharma (kp
21/06/2016)
Far
western
review: Cursed by geography but blessed with
scenic beauty, the region has great tourism
potential, by David Kainee (kp 19/06/2016)
Bhaktapur
lacks
night time entertainment (ht 12/06/2016)
Stakeholders
seek
enhanced ties with India to boost tourism (ht
10/06/2016)
Promoting
rural
tourism key to alleviating poverty (ht 03/06/2016)
India
urges
its citizens to avoid route via Nepal (kp
02/06/2016)
Buddhist
circuit:
Trans-national route from India to Nepal on the anvil
(kp 01/06/2016)
Indian
tourist arrivals up in Pokhara (ht 01/06/2016)
Rara
National
Park: Potential touristic hub, by Chandra Jung Hamal
(ht 26/05/2016), Arrivals
to
Rara swell after road completion, by Tularam Pandey
(kp 27/05/2016)
Artistic
tourism:
Artists are skilled communicators and can be among the
loudest and most effective critics of injustice and
corruption.
As such, these kind of people can be both key defenders
of an open and just society, and a nuisance to those in
power, by Mark Harris (kp 21/05/2016)
Tourism
for
the people, by the people: Unique eco-green hotel in
Pokhara is a global model for self-sustainability,
by Kunda Dixit (nt 20/05/2016)
Rivers
of
Nepal’s Wild West: Go white water rafting on the
Seti-Karnali before new reservoir projects change them
forever, by Yu Wei Liew (nt 20/05/2016)
Buddha’s
birthplace
on his birthday: If visitors look beyond its neglect and
crassness, Lumbini offers a spiritual reawakening,
by Seulki Lee (nt 20/05/2016)
MoCTCA,
NTB,
NRNA join hands for tourism promotion (rep
19/05/2016)
Drop
in
tourist numbers: Bhaktapur Municipality suffers Rs209m
loss (kp 17/05/2016)
Safety
matters:
Technology and coordination can reduce risks inherent in
trekking and climbing (kp 17/05/2016)
Boosting
tourism:
Nepal has plenty to offer in order to be a beehive for
quality tourists, such as mountaineering, trekking,
sight seeing and rafting (ht 16/05/2016)
20
stranded
trekkers rescued: Were descending to Manang after
climbing Mt Saribung in Mustang, by Aash Gurung (kp
15/05/2016)
Chinese
market
crucial to revive tourism: Entrepreneurs; Nepal needs to
focus on promotion, more flight connectivity (ht
15/05/2016)
Bandipur
drawing
tourists again: The town’s 60 tourist-standard hotels
boast 1,200 room-nights, where Panoramic mountain views,
including that of Annapurna and Manaslu, are the major
drawn, by Prakash Baral (kp 15/05/2016)
UNESCO
expresses
concern (ht 14/05/2016)
Getting
tourism
out of hot water: Nepalis have been using Himalayan hot
springs for health reasons, but their full tourism
potential has never been tapped, by Sahina Shrestha
(nt 13/05/2016)
Langtang
is
ready for you. Are you? The scenic national park is open
to trekkers again after last year’s deadly earthquake
and avalanche, by Yu Wei Liew (nt 13/05/2016)
Selling
ourselves
short: Nepal needs to raise the bar urgently for
sustainable high-value tourism, by Arild Molstad (nt
1305/2016)
Pokhara
sees
dip in number of Indian tourists, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 10/05/2016)
Most
visitors
to Lumbini spend 30min sightseeing, by Madhav
Dhungana (kp 06/05/2016)
Brand
Nepal:
The tourism sector is in dire need of rebranding if it
is to tap its full potential (kp 05/05/2016)
TAAN
to
mark its 37th anniversary in Langtang (kp
05/05/2016)
Boom
times
revisit hotel sector: Hospitality sector recalls the
heady days of the 70s and 80s with leading global hotel
brands returning to the country, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 29/04/2016)
CG
Holdings
plans to build four hotels in next five years: The
company has acquired 35-cottage Tigerland Safari Resort
and Lodge located on the edge of the Chitwan National
Park (kp 28/04/2016)
Visit
Nepal:
Nepalis are naturally hospitable, their friendliness
exemplary, by Robert S. Kittel (rep 28/04/2016)
Ghumphir
Barsha
launched: Go out and enjoy Nepal (kp 26/04/2016), Tourism
year:
Nepal should offer appealing packages to tourists, both
international and domestic (kp 27/04/2016)
Tourism
industry
bounces back, by Sangam Prasain (kp 24/04/2016)
Peak
Tourism:
High-end hilltop hideaways present the best way to
rebuild tourism in earthquake-hit areas, by Kanak
Mani Dixit (nt 22/04/2016)
Langtang
tourism
rebounds gradually, by Krishna Thapa (kp 20/04/2016)
Government
starts
survey along Annapurna trek route (ht 20/04/2016)
Tourism
back on its feet in Chitwan, by Tilakram Rimal (ht
18/04/2016)
Bhaktapur
ends
tragic year on optimistic note, by Anup Ojha
(kp/04/2016)
NTB
announces
2073 as ‘Ghumphir Barsa’ (kp 12/04/2016), Govt
unveils
Ghumfir Barsa to revive tourism sector after a sluggish
year: Civil servants will have to take at least one week
leave and visit a local destination in the new year,
by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 12/04/2016)
Recapping
a
harrowing year for tourism sector (ht 10/04/2016)
Pura
Vida:
As the tourism industry looks to rebuild from what has
been a devastating year following the quakes, the best
foot forward might just be a step closer to home; one
that takes the industry back to nature, by Kripa
Shrestha (kp 09/04/2016)
Tourism
entrepreneurs
using brochures in Chinese language (ht 09/04/2016)
Meghauli
Serai
Jungle Lodge opens in Chitwan (ht 07/04/2016), Meghauli
Serai
opens booking for tourists (ht 10/04/2016), Taj
re-enters
Nepal with luxury lodge, by Sangam Prasain (kp
11/04/2016)
House
panel
seeks clarification from Nepal Tourism Board (ht
07/04/2016)
Foreign
tourists
spend $50 a day in Pokhara: Study, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 05/04/2016)
Unfinished
homework:
The government and tourism industry fail to conduct risk
studies recommended for major trekking regions, by
Navin Singh Khadka (kp 01/04/2016), Conservation
and
Tourism: The two can go hand-in-hand and Nepal has shown
how to do it, by Kristjan Edwards (nt 01/04/2016)
Restoring
resorts:
The debate about whether or not to allow wildlife
resorts inside national parks flares up again, by
Smriti Basnet (nt 01/04/2016)
Quake-damaged
Manaslu
Circuit awaits restoration , by Sudip Kaini (kp
30/03/2016)
Service,
please!
If there are some establishments that have done well and
expanded, they have done so based on innovation, by
Sujeev Shakya (kp 29/03/2016)
Rebound
in
Chinese arrivals cheers up Nepal’s tourism, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 25/03/2016)
Baghkhor
hotels
reeling under water crisis (ht 24/03/2016)
TAAN
hands
over compensation (ht 20/03/2016)
Mini
Saarc
proves shot in the arm for Pokhara, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 18/03/2016)
Dilapidated
infrastructure
threatens Koshi Barrage tourism, by Jitendra Kumar
Jha (rep 15/03/2016)
Gorkha
tourism
entrepreneurs to offer ‘Home Stay’ in temporary
settlements (ht 13/03/2016)
Entrepreneurs
seek
proper policies to retain aesthetic value of
‘tourist-hub’ Thamel, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
12/03/2016)
Tourism
sector
on road to recovery, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
10/03/2016), Tourism
industry
starting to recover: Sharp rise in the number of
adventure tourists and volunteers, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 13/03/2016)
Women-managed
hotels
flourishing in Mustang, by Binod Tripathi (kp
09/03/2016)
Dolakha
tourism
returns to normalcy, by Ramesh Khatiwada (kp
08/03/2016)
New
road
results in losses for hotels, by Aash Gurung (kp
06/03/2016)
Foreigners
arriving
at TIA get free sim cards (kp 03/03/2016)
Govt
urged
to introduce policy to streamline homestays (kp
01/03/2016)
Country’s
wildlife
tourism sector in peril, say entrepreneurs (ht
29/02/2016)
Parbat
sees
increased investment in tourism, by Agandhar Tiwari
(kp 28/02/2016)
Hotels
oppose
uniform price fiat, by Harihar Singh Rathaur (kp
26/02/2016)
Go
take a hike, by Seulki Lee (nt 26/02/2016)
In
the
lap of Annapurnas: Rupakot Resort offers the perfect
getaway spot, pampering guests in the lap of luxury amid
stunning views of the Annapurnas, by Yu Wei Liew (nt
26/02/2016
Confusing
route
daunts domestic, foreign tourists bound for Rara Lake
(ht 24/02/2016)
Flow
of
Chinese tourists dismal despite free visa provision,
by Santosh Pokhrel (rep 17/02/2016)
Tourism
Blues:
Nepali tourism industry needs serious recalibration,
by Sujeev Shakya (kp 16/02/2016)
Madi
to
Sauraha trekking route for tourism development, by
Ramesh Kumar Poudel (rep 13/02/2016)
NTB’s
board
gets full shape (ht 09/02/2016)
Hotel
business
booms in villages around Pokhara, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 08/02/2016)
Valley’s
heritage
sites await tourists’ return: Hanuman Dhoka was reopened
in June, but number of visitors has remained low (kp
04/02/2016)
Commercial
paragliding
to be started in Parbat, by Agandhar Tiwari (kp
02/02/2016)
Revival
of
tourism: Concrete efforts required, by Atmaram
Pandey (ht 01/02/2016)
A
sharper focus: Doing half as much as other tourist
destinations will woo a sizable chunk (kp
26/01/2016)
Entrepreneurs
hopeful
of better tourism prospects in 2016 (ht 24/01/2016)
Tiger
Tops
offers new style elephant tourism (kp 23/01/2016)
Ten
Nepali
hotels included in Travelers’ Choice 2016 list, by
Santosh Pokhrel (rep 23/01/2016)
Number
of
trekkers down only 6 percent in 2015, by Kriti Bhuju
(rep 23/01/2016)
CNP
sees
50 pc drop in foreign visitors (ht 23/01/2016)
Arrivals
hit
6-year low as quake, agitation take toll, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 22/01/2016)
Chitwan
expos
aim to boost tourism, economy, by Bimal Khatiwada
(kp 21/01/2016)
Chinese
arrivals
expected to jump (kp 14/01/2016)
Two
new
trekking routes explored in Kaski district (ht
12/01/2016)
Visitor
numbers
in 2015 not so low but tourism suffered, by Kriti
Bhuju (rep 12/01/2016)
Bid
to
boost air connectivity, tourism: Nepal, Bhutan agree on
six-point agenda (kp 09/01/2016)
First
batch
of Chinese tourists get free visas (kp 08/01/2016)
Nepal
placed
on top of 10 must-see countries (kp 06/01/2016)
Despite
measures,
Thamel’s night life plan put on hold: But
entrepreneurs say they’re ready to keep shutters open
all night long, by Gaurav Thapa (kp 06/01/2016)
New
Year
merrymakersconverge in Bhedetar, by Ramesh Chandra
Adhikari (kp 04/01/2016)
A
forgettable year for tourism?, by Kriti Bhuju (rep
31/12/2015)
Ni
Hao
China: Incentivising Chinese tourist arrivals can help
floundering tourism industry (kp 29/12/2015)
Nepal
expects
more tourists from China (kp 27/12/2015)
India,
China
present big tourism opportunity: Joshi (kp
24/12/2015)
Christmas,
new
year celebration: Valley’s 5 star hotels expect brisk
business (kp 24/12/2015)
FNCCI
asks
govt to waive visa fees to boost arrivals, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 23/12/2015)
Tourism
earnings
down 18pc (kp 20/12/2015)
Nepal
Tourism
Board has new CEO, finally, by Sangam Prasain (kp
18/12/2015)
Madhes
agitation,
blockade hitting hoteliers hard (ht 17/12/2015)
Problem
of
discrimination: Corrective measures needed, by
Vincent Verbon (ht 10/12/2015)
Nepal
in
Nat Geo’s Cool List amid tourism gloom (kp
09/12/2015)
NTB,
CBI
sign deal to revive tourism (kp 23/11/2015)
40
new
places identified as potential tourist destinations,
by Chandni Hamal (rep 21/11/2015)
40
pc
Tanahun hotels close down (ht 18/11/2015)
Cycle
tourism
becomes popular in Mustang, by Shiva Sharma (kp
17/11/2015)
Fuel
crunch
forces Phidim hotels to shut (ht 17/11/2015)
Mustang
receives
increasing number of domestic tourists (kp
13/11/2015)
Arrivals
drop
by half as disasters take their toll, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 11/11/2015)
Sauraha
hotels
in dire straits (ht 06/11/2015)
Hotel
occupancy
rates fall from bad to worse: Report; Occupancy plunged
below 20 percent in October following the Tarai unrest,
fuel crisis, by Sangam Prasain (kp 05/11/2015)
Nepal
is
beautiful, safe, say foreign tourists (ht
05/11/2015)
Come
back,
tourists: Nepali authorities and the European media have
both aggravated the tourism crisis in Nepal, by Oli
Dischoe (kp 01/11/2015)
Hoteliers
having
hard time coping with fuel crisis; deplore government
apathy, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 31/10/2015)
Trekking
trails
half-full… at least not half empty: Everest and the
Annapurna regions which were not so badly affected by
the April earthquake are seeing healthy traffic, by
Ayesha Shakya (nt 30/10/2015)
NTB
resumes
selection process for new CEO (kp 28/10/2015)
Dhaulagiri
Icefall
trekking route construction complete (ht 28/10/2015)
Nepali
outbound
stalls as economy heads downhill: The country’s
deteriorating business environment has affected the
travel plans of Nepali holidaymakers, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 25/10/2015)
Entry
fee
for tourists hiked (ht 19/10/2015)
Tarai
unrest
gives another blow to Pokhara tourism: Hopes of a
revival have been dashed after Tarai became engulfed
in political unrest and India mounted an undeclared
embargo which led to crippling fuel crisis, by Lal
Prasad Sharma (kp 18/10/2015)
Disturbances
in
Nepal ‘hit’ Sikkim tourism, by Sangam Prasain (kp
18/10/2015)
Tourism
in
Khumbu region rebounds after earthquake, by Kumbha
Raj Rai (kp 16/10/2015)
Trekking
in
Nepal turns 50: It has indeed been a wonderful first
50 years for trekking in Nepal, but which way forward
the country takes will determine its next 50, by
Robin Marston (nt 16/10/2015)
Government
working
to amend Tourism Act (rep 16/10/2015)
Improving
relationships
in the tourism industry (nt 16/10/2015)
Hoteliers
searching
alternatives to LPG, by Anup Ojha (kp 15/10/2015)
Unrest
a
new blow to Nepal’s quake-ravaged tourism industry
(kp 15/10/2015), Unrest
a
new blow to Nepal’s tourism: Protests by ethnic groups
and severe fuel crisis again keeping visitors away
(ht 15/10/2015)
Peak
season
attracts tourists to Mustang, by Shiva Sharma (kp
15/10/2015)
Nepal
tourism
promotion in China (kp 15/10/2015)
Two
new
check posts, six shelters built on Annapurna trekking
route (ht 14/10/2015)
Border
blockade:
US warns visiting citizens (kp 10/10/2015)
Now,
a
trekking app: Throw out your hardcopy guidebook and
navigate with your phone on your next trek, by
Ayesha Shakya (nt 09/10/2015)
Open
for
businessGovt and the private sector both need to go an
extra mile to revive tourism (kp 06/10/2015)
Hotels
cut
services to deal with fuel shortage (ht
06/10/2015)
Thousands
lose
jobs as tourism sector struggles, by Rup Narayan
Dhakal (ht 04/10/2015)
Shortage
of
cooking gas: ‘40pc of hotels, restaurants shut’
(kp
04/10/2015),
Top
hotels
running out of fuel, food stock, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 04/10/2015)
Foreign
tourist
arrivals declining in Mustang following April earthquake
(ht 03/10/2015)
#MyGHT:
Instagrammers
promote Nepal trekking, by Ayesha Shakya (nt
02/10/2015)
Easy
escapism:
The Nepali Times reviews some of the most talked about
getaway spots in Kathmandu and outside (nt
02/10/2015)
Tourism
sector
in buoyant mood after constitution, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 22/09/2015)
Slowdown
in
tourist arrivals hits Thamel (ht 19/09/2015)
Tourism
sector
back on its feet after earthquake, says Minister Sherpa
(ht 16/09/2015)
Future
of
travel: Cape Town offers many lessons for tourism
destinations in Nepal, by Sujeev Shakya (kp
15/09/2015)
Bardia
hotels
lay off staffers: With the number of safari goers
dropping sharply, the hotels said they have had to send
home around 95pc of their employees, by Kamal Panthi
(kp 14/09/2015)
NTB
holds
tourism promo event in India’s Bangalore (kp
07/09/2015)
Annapurna
circuit
gets shelter houses (ht 07/09/2015)
Appellate
court
clears way for NTB chief appointment (kp 06/09/2015)
Continuous
strikes
have hit tourism sector (ht 03/09/2015)
Federal
tourism:
Future provinces which blend resources, connectivity and
skills will attract more visitors, by Aditya Baral
and Kashi R. Bhandari (kp 03/09/2015)
Indian
visitors
avoiding Pokhara due to strikes, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 03/09/2015)
Rs
600m
promo campaign planned (kp 25/08/2015)
Tourism
shows
signs of resurgence: Surge in inbound international
flight ticket bookings;Bookings for October cross 80
percent as international airlines raise flight frequency,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 23/08/2015)
Tourism
industry
on tenterhooks, by Karina Neupane Subedi (ht
23/08/2015)
Hotel
profits
plunge as quake hits occupancy (kp 20/08/2015)
UK
ambassador,
DFID chief join ‘I am in Nepal Now’ campaign (kp
16/08/2015)
Innovations
in
Nepal's Tourism Industry (nt 14/08/2015)
Lack
of
tourists affects vendors at heritage sites (ht
10/08/2015)
Naturally
Nepal
needs tourists now more than ever, says Peter Athans,
by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 09/08/2015)
Trekking
routes
in Everest region ‘safe’, by Sangam Prasain (kp
08/08/2015)
Nepal
wows
visitors at Singapore travel fair (kp 05/08/2015)
Some
western
countries lift travel warnings, issue geo-specific
advices (ht 04/08/2015)
Terhathum
moves
to boost tourism, by Chandra Karki (kp 02/08/2015)
Promotion
of
village tourism stressed (ht 01/08/2015)
Tamang
Heritage
Trail reopens after quake (kp 31/07/2015)
‘Visit
Rukum
Year’ promotes Guerrilla Trek, Yarsa trails, by
Krishna Prasad Gautam (kp 26/07/2015)
Chitwan
National
Park saw rise in number of visitors last fiscal: Number
of tourists in ’14-15 stood at 178,220, with authorities
collecting Rs 249.4 million in revenue (ht
25/07/2015)
Annapurna
region
safe for trekking: Study, by Sangam Prasain (kp
24/07/2015), Annapurna
Circuit
declared safe for trekking (ht 24/07/2015), Trekking
agencies
doubt Annapurna report (ht 25/07/2015)
Tourists
inflow
gaining momentum, by Riwaj Rai (rep 23/07/2015)
Works
on
Buddhist Circuit begins formally (kp 19/07/2015)
Entrepreneurs’
bid
to revive Pokhara tourism, by Shiva Sharma (kp
19/07/2015)
Mystical
Mustang
in the monsoon: Tourist guesthouses in Upper Mustang
are intact, but empty, by Stéphane Huë (nt
17/07/2015)
The
Millennium
Trek, by LB Thapa (rep 17/07/2015)
Naturally
Nepal:
Despite devastating earthquakes, Nepal is as beautiful
as before and its people are just as welcoming, by
Him Lal Ghimire (kp 15/07/2015)
Number
of
tourists, their stay in Nepal declined (ht
14/07/2015)
Govt
okays
10-year Greater Lumbini tourism strategy, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 14/07/2015)
Nepal
in
Lonely Planet’s best travel destinations (kp
14/07/2015)
Five-star
hotels
record 61pc average occupancy in 2014, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 12/07/2015)
Chinese
tourists
expected to return to Nepal in Aug (kp 11/07/2015)
Together
for
tourism: Disasters can provide countries an
opportunity to start afresh and build back better,
by Hari Man Lama (kp 10/07/2015)
Fixing
what's
broken: Nepal’s tourism was in crisis long before the
earthquake struck (nt 10/07/2015)
Tourism
industry
scrambles to restore faith: Entrepreneurs are
confident the budget will be vital in addressing the
industry’s troubles in a more sustainable way, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 10/07/2015)
Social
media
campaign to woo visitors, by Chahana Sigdel (kp
08/07/2015)
Govt
to
erect 5 tall view towers, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 08/07/2015)
Foreign
Ministry
directs embassies to encourage foreigners to visit
Nepal: Campaigning with the slogan Nepal is safe for
tourists (ht 08/07/2015)
Tourism
industry
demands tax cuts to boost recovery (kp 07/07/2015)
Bid
to
revive tourism gains momentum, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 07/07/2015)
Pokhara
tourism
promotion in China, India, by Lal Prasad Sharma
(kp 05/07/2015)
Stakeholders
demand
serious tourism recovery plan, by Rojina Maharjan
(ht 05/07/2015)
Three
countries
lift restrictions to Nepal: The countries are the US,
the UK and New Zealand; More countries are likely to
follow suit, NTB said, by Sangam Prasain (kp
04/07/2015)
Madi,
a
potential tourist hub, in need of publicity (ht
03/07/2015)
Gonepalholiday
travel
companion app launched (kp 01/07/2015)
Experts
say
Nepal tourism will need time to recover, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 01/07/2015)
Tourist
flow
to return to normal only next year (ht 01/07/2015)
Homestay
boosts
incomes, living standards in Bardia, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 29/06/2015)
Surrogate
Shangri-La:
It is still not clear why tourists come to Nepal, but
rebuilding heritage sites will definitely attract more
of them, by Abhi Subedi (kp 28/06/2015)
Plans
afoot
to develop Devdaha as tourist hub, by Amrita
Anamol (kp 27/06/2015)
NTB
appoints
goodwill ambassadors (ht 27/06/2015)
Travelling
by
road risky in quake-hit districts, by Rajendra
Manandhar (kp 25/06/2015)
Tourism
fraternity
welcomes plan to organize Visit Nepal Year: Say
preparations should beginn now, by Kriti Bhuju
(rep 25/06/2015)
Toll
in
tourism: Many tourism entrepreneurs who I soke to had
one very clear reason for the sudden slump: media
coverage, by Binod Bhattarai (rep 25/06/2015)
Up
and
about: The Nepal Tourism Board will have to take
well-planned measures to revive the tourism sector,
by Dandeep Basnyat (kp 24/06/2015)
Nepal
tourism
year campaigns to assure visitors: PDNA report, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 24/06/2015)
PATA
urges
visa-free travel policy, by Sangam Prasain (kp
23/06/2015)
51-point
tourism
revival declaration issued (ht 23/06/2015)
Stakeholders
stress
concerted efforts to revive tourism sector: Say
government and private agencies must work in tandem,
by Bharat Koirala (ht 22/06/2015)
'Tourist
destinations
in eastern Nepal safe', by Benup Raj Bhattarai
(rep 22/06/2015)
Tourism
ministry
encourages entrepreneurs (ht 20/06/2015)
Chunpahara
cliff
safe for climbers, say geologists (ht 20/06/2015)
Getting
them
back: Govt needs to repair damaged heritage sites and
trekking routes immediately (kp 19/06/2015), Bringing
the
tourists back: Government preparing action plan for
tourism recovery, by Kriti Bhuju (rep 19/06/2015)
Trekking
in
solitude: A perfect time to trek for those who prefer
isolation, by Peregrine Frissell (nt 19/06/2015)
Disaster
tourism:
Frustrated villers of affected districts were discontent
with people and organizations wandering in to ogle at
their misery, by Sneha Pandey (rep 18/06/2015)
Nepal
could
lose ‘over 300k’ visitors this year, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 17/06/2015)
MoCTCA
seeks
funds for safety audit of tourist sites (ht
17/06/2015)
Landslips
affect
inflow of tourist, pilgrims: Tourism in the district is
badly affected due to the traffic disruption along the
highway for three weeks (kp 17/06/2015) [related to
Mustang]
Don’t
believe
everything you hear, says TourMin, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 16/06/2015), Nepal
safe
to visit: Sherpa (rep 17/06/2015), Govt
requesting
embassies to remove negative travel advisories, by
Kriti Bhuju (rep 17/06/2015)
Rules
for
hotels in Chitwan issued (kp 16/06/2015)
Minister-led
panel
formed for tourism revival, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht
15/06/2015)
Is
Nepal
ready to welcome tourists?, by Shradha Pal (kp
14/06/2015)
DoT
inspects
48 hotels, three marked unsafe (ht 14/06/2015)
Nagarkot
hotels
bounce back, by Nagendra Adhikari (kp 12/06/2015)
Tourism
Board
begins hunt for new CEO, by Sangam Prasain (kp
11/06/2015)
Tourist
flow
gradually picking up at Annapurna trekking circuit
(ht 10/06/2015)
Govt
readying
Tourism Concessional Manual: Aims to open and regulate
tourism-related activities within protected areas
(ht 10/06/2015)
Kathmandu
in
the list of world’s top tourist destinations (ht
09/06/2015)
Rescue
tourism (ht 09/06/2015)
Hoteliers
worried
by drop in arrivals, by Aash Gurung (kp 09/06/2015)
Lumbini
travel
traders act to revive tourism (kp 06/06/2015)
On
the
right trail: Trekking and mountaineering industry
seeking post-quake scientific assessment for safety is a
responsible move, by Navin Singh Khadka (kp
05/06/2015)
Working
with
hope, interview with Ramesh Prasad Dhamala (rep
05/06/2015)
Waiting
and
watching: Guests may be gods, but they are not very
visible lately in the tourist hub of Thamel, by
Karma Gurung (nt)
Annapurna
circuit
trek route safe (ht 05/06/2015)
DoT
team
has inspected 29 hotels till date (ht 03/06/2015)
Pokhara
seeks
to lure back tourists: Tourism entrepreneurs in the Lake
City offer heavy discounts, by Pushpa Raj Acharya
(ht 02/06/2015)
Pokhara
acts
to shake off earthquake blues, by Lal Prasad Sharma
(kp 01/06/2015)
Ministry
all
set to name chief at NTB, by Sangam Prasain (kp
31/05/2015)
Foreign
media
urged to help revive tourism (ht 31/05/2015)
Only
15%
of tourist destination affected by quake: Minister
(rep 30/05/2015)
Pokhara
hotels unaffected by quake, by Santosh Pokharel (rep
30/05/2015)
IFC
lends
$3m for Fairfield Hotel project (kp 29/05/2015)
Left
intact
in quake, Namche Bazaar awaits tourists, by
Bhanubhakta Niraula
Where
have
all the tourists gone? The earthquake didn't damage
Pokhara but it scared off most visitors, by Tsering
Dolker Gurung (nt)
There
is
enough room to make tourists visit Nepal this autumn,
interview with Andrew Jones (kp 29/05/2015))
Tourism
entrepreneurs
slash prices to revive arrivals, by Bhushan Yadav
(kp 28/05/2015)
Heritage
sites
in Valley to open for tourists from June 15 (ht
28/05/2015)
The
Everest
Hotel marked ‘unsafe’, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
27/05/2015)
Tourism
industry
urged to open wallets wider, by Sangam Prasain (kp
26/05/2015)
Campaign
to
revive tourism in Pokhara, by Lal Prasad Sharma (kp
24/05/2015), Pokhara
entrepreneurs
in bid to revive tourism: Offering heavy discounts to
tourists in hotels in and around Lake City, by Rup
Narayan Dhakal (ht 04/05/2015)
Rumors
turning
off tourists; Situation here isn't as dangerous as we've
been informed: Indian tourists, by Santosh Pokharel
(rep 23/05/2015)
NTB
deposits
Rs 100m as seed money in Tourism Recovery Fund (ht
19/05/2015)
Panel
to
study quake’s impact on tourism: The committee will
identify short- and long-term work needed to be done and
make suggestions (kp 18/05/2015)
Travel
and
tourism competitiveness 2015: Nepal moves up 10 spots to
102nd position, by Sangam Prasain (kp 17/05/2015) [This is already history after the
earthquake!]
Food
safety
critical for tourism sector, by Pushpa Raj Acharya
(ht)
Tourism
sector
bearing temblor brunt (ht 11/05/2015)
Tourism
envisions
rebound plan after deadly quake, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 09/05/2015), Govt
forms
TRC in a bid to revive tourism industry (ht
09/05/2015)
80
percent
tourists cancel reservations in quake’s wake: Hoteliers
expect situation to last for at least another six months,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 05/05/2015)
Pokhara
tourism
entrepreneurs upbeat about reviving business (ht
05/05/2015)
TICC
established:
An initiative to gather details about tourists who
have gone missing,are dead or injured (ht
03/05/2015)
Expanding
ecotourism:
The ACAP model of ecotourism would do wonders for
communities across the country, but the government and
the private sector will need to pitch in, by
Pragati Shahi (kp 25/04/2015)
NTB
spending
less than 10pc of allotted budget (kp 24/04/2015),
NTB
has
spent only 10pc of annual budget so far (ht
25/04/2015)
Appointing
board
members at NTB an uphill task (ht 24/04/2015)
What
transport
infrastructure will tourists need? (nt 24/04/2015)
Luring
the
dragon: Tourism destinations in Nepal are busy, as
more and more Chinese are arriving, by Aditya
Baral (kp 21/04/2015), Chinese
are
coming: Nepal needs to learn from global initiatives
to lure Chinese tourists (kp 24/04/2015), China
set
to edge out India as No 1 tourist source, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 25/04/2015)
More
Nepalis
vacationing abroad during New Year, by Kriti Bhuju
(rep 15/04/2015)
A
wish for New Year’s: This Baisakh 1, the resolution
should be to find a way to leverage the New Year into
a tourism opportunity, by Sujeev Shakya (kp
14/04/2015)
Bikram
Sambat
association: Nepal could bring together the countries
that follow the Bikram Sambat lunar calendar to boost
regional tourism, by Hari Man Lama (kp 14/04/2015)
Homestay
tourism
changing lives of villagers in Agyauli, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 10/05/2015)
Trekkers’
safety
in hands of a living-room weatherman (kp
09/04/2015)
Malaysian
tourist
goes missing, by Manish Gautam (kp 09/04/2015)
Swelling
tourism
draws investors to Sauraha, by Bhusan Yadav (kp
09/04/2015)
3
govt agencies face uncertainty: Given political
influence, uncertainty shrouds over new appointments
to fill the vacuum at these agencies, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 05/04/2015), Tourism
board
calls emergency meeting today (ht 05/04/2015), NTB
board
likely to take decision today (ht 06/04/2015), Sub-panel
set
up to resolve crisis at NTB (kp 07/04/2015)
Durbarmarg
to
open 24 hours, by Anup Ojha (03/04/2015)
Nepal
tourism
generated 487k direct jobs in 2014 (kp 01/04/2015)
Tourist
arrivals
drop; Pokhara entrepreneurs disappointed (ht
01/04/2015)
Renovation
of
Nepal Academy proposed: NTB plans to utilise the
revamped property to promote MICE tourism in the
country (ht 31/03/2015)
Not
looking
good: Tourist arrivals for spring are down; steps must
be taken to keep them coming (kp 26/03/2015)
Paragliders
collide
in first accident involving tandem flight, by
Bharat Koirala (kp 24/03/2015)
TIMS
card
made mandatory of all trekking areas, by Kriti
Bhuju (rep 23/03/2015)
Pata
Nepal
targets 215k Chinese tourists (kp 22/03/2015)
Carrying
chitwan:
Elephants play a pivotal role in Chitwan’s tourism
industry. But the pachyderms and their handlers have
to put up with a lot of hardship to ensure that the
industry hums along, by Prateebha Tuladhar (kp
21/03/2015)
Khumbu
street-viewed:
Google Earth Outreach has partnered with local
organisations—StoryCycle and the Apa Foundation—to
help locals in the Everest region digitally represent
their areas on Google Maps, by Chahana Sigdel (kp
21/03/2015)
Sluggish
airline
bookings hint at poor peak season, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 21/03/2015)
Mustang
in
march: here are many obscure villages in Lower Mustang
that are mystical and can be reached on a day’s hike
from Jomsom, by Cynthia Choo and Kenji Kwok (nt
20/03/2015)
CG,
NE
acquire Summit Hotel (kp 19/03/2015)
Thamel,
Durbarmarg
to open 24 hrs soon (kp 17/03/2015)
TIA
closure
has knock-on effect on Pokhara hotels, by Shiva
Sharma (kp 13/03/2015)
Tourism
flatlines,
Chinese are up: Number of Chinese tourists have
increased by 18 per cent in the past year (nt
13/03/2015)
Tourist
arrivals
by air slip 0.3 percent (kp 12/03/2015)
New
resort
turns sleepy village into tourist spot, by Basanti
Bastola (kp 11/03/2015)
Chitwan
hotels
to reopen (ht 25/02/2015)
Protest
against
police excesses: Chitwan hotels, restaurants shut,
by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 24/02/2015), More
than
1,500 Chitwan hotels shut (ht 24/02/2015)
Flush
tourists
trigger growth of luxury hotels in Chitwan, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 22/02/2015)
Team
Delhi-bound
for tourism talks (kp 19/02/2015)
Investment
in
Pokhara hotel industry witnesses significant rise,
by Rup Narayan Dhakal (ht 14/02/2015)
‘Infrastructure
must
for tourism sector’ (ht 14/02/2015)
Adventure
Tourism:
A billion dollar industry? (nt 13/02/2015)
Hotel
Tulsi
Home begins operation in Besishahar, by Kishan
Sangeet Nepali (rep 12/02/2015)
Parajuli
to
lead 10-member team in JWG meeting (rep 11/02/2015)
Circuit
trek
route being developed, by Shiva Sharma and Purna BK
(kp 07/02/2015)
Sauraha
to
hotels offer 20% discount, by Chandani Hamal (kp
07/02/2015)
Safety
issues
mar thriving paragliding biz, by Shiva Sharma (kp
02/02/2015)
Nepal
to
join PATA event in Thimphu (kp 02/02/2015), 14
Nepali
participants join PATA Mart in Bhutan, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 06/02/2015)
Tourism
Dept:
38 proposed hotels applied for impact assessment, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 31/01/2015)
Right
this
way, please: Recent Indian government moves are expected
to boost tourist arrivals to Nepal, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 26/01/2015)
Historical
Panchase
luring tourists in droves (ht 26/01/2015)
Four
countries
issue travel alerts: Advise their respective citizens
to exercise high degree of caution when in Nepal,
by Kriti Bhuju (rep 22/01/2015)
Day
trippers
throng Lumbini (kp 21/01/2015)
22
new
paragliding cos acquire permits (kp 17/01/2015)
Jiri
to
be developed as green tourism city, by Ramesh
Khatiwada (rep 16/01/2015)
Tourist
hubs
may remain open 24 hrs: Authorities working to let
Thamel, Durbar Marg operate round-the-clock (ht
13/01/2015)
Surkhet
can
become a paragliding hub: NAA, by Moti Lal Poudel
(kp 11/01/2015)
Thai
hospitality
chain Dusit to manage Hotel Annapurna, by Suman
Bashyal (kp 09/01/2015)
Sarang
sanctuary
resort throws its doors open, by Bimal Khatiwada
(kp 03/01/2015)
Rural
Development Through Ecotourism, by Reagan Bhandari
(rn 02/01/2015)
Back
to
Everest in 2015: A blaze of publicity for the Himalaya
in 2015 is expected to give a boost to Nepal’s
trekking tourism, by Kunda Dixit (nt 02/01/2015)
The
Chinese
are coming: ...but a lot more tourists from China
would visit if there was more information about Nepal
online in Mandarin, by Claire Li Yingxue (nt
02/01/2015)
Investment
booming
in Pokhara hospitality (kp 01/01/2015)
Rock
climbing
fails to attracttourists in Lamjung (ht
31/12/2014)
Hotels
offer
incentives for New Year revellers (kp 27/12/2014)
Tapping
the
adrenaline rush: Adventure tourism and sports are
unique ways to promote development and prosperity in
the mountains, by Saroj Dhakal (kp 26/12/2014)
Hotels
without
business as snowfall hits tourist arrivals, by
Nirajan Poudel (rep 19/12/2014)
Build
it,
and they will come: Nepal needs to first improve its
tourism infrastructure and execute imaginative
campaigns to lure tourists, by Moses Manoharan (kp
17/12/2014)
HAN
urges
effective tourism promotion programmes (ht
16/12/2014)
Tourist
accommodation
expands by 5,000 rooms (kp 12/12/2014)
Number
of
hotels, lodges up by 15 percent, by Kriti Bhuju
(rep 10/12/2014)
Sauraha
sees
Rs 330 million investment in elephant safari, by
Dipendra Baduwal (kp 09/12/2014)
Peak
tourist
season disappoints Pokhara entrepreneurs, by
Santosh Pokharel (rep 09/12/2014)
Millions
pumped
into hospitality in Bhedetar, by Binod Ghimire (kp
07/12/2014)
Fake
helicopter
rescue business booming: Insurers suffer as agents,
trekking guides make a fast buck by inflating, and
‘even faking’, bills, by Rupak D. Sharma (ht
06/12/2014)
Bardia
sees
less foreign tourists, more Nepalis (kp
05/12/2014)
Tourism
Vision
2020: Where do we stand?, by Kriti Bhuju (rep
05/12/2014)
Tourist
route
planned through CNP, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp
30/11/2014)
Visitors’
length
of stay shortening in Pokhara, by Shiva Sharma (kp
29/11/2014)
Tourists
paying
through nose due to absence of road (ht
26/11/2014)
Mugu
eyes
tourism potential as it takes first step on road to
prosperity, by Rupak D. Sharma (ht 25/11/2014)
Hoteliers
elated
as SAARC Summit boosts occupancy, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 23/11/2014)
Nepal,
India
to sign key pact on tourism (kp 22/11/2014)
More
tourists
visiting Rara Lake, by Suman Malla (rep
22/11/2014)
Market
monitoring
team seals three hotels (ht 21/11/2014)
Bharatpur
Garden
Resort formally starts operation, by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (rep 19/11/2014)
Dolakha
tourism
promotion fair slated to start on Dec 5, by
Rajendra Manandhar (kp 17/11/2014)
Focus
on
developing Karnali, panel tells govt (ht
17/11/2014)
Internal
tourists
rescue failing homestay biz of one Bhaktapur village,
by Anup Ojha (kp 16/11/2014)
Untapped
potential:
The Rara lake trail already has all it needs to draw
the crowds. It just needs the communities to come
together and manage tourism, by Dewan Rai (kp
15/11/2014)
NTB
has
no info on tourist arrivals since July, by Kriti
Bhuju (rep 13/11/2014)
Have
cash,
will dash: Investments in hotels soar as the country’s
tourism industry rebounds with a vengeance, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 12/11/2014)
Tourist
arrival
up in Ramechhap (ht 11/11/2014)
New
hotels
come up in Myagdi as visitors surge, by Hari
Krishna Gautam (rep 10/11/2014)
NTB
eyes
Rs 951 million revenue (rep 10/11/2014)
Trekkers
change
course to Langtang (kp 07/11/2014)
Tourist
arrivals
at Annapurna circuit picking up, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 03/11/2014)
Safari
elephants
‘lack’ proper care (kp 02/11/2014)
Nilofar
threat:
police sent to help trekkers (kp 31/10/2014)
Walking
with
the times: Trekking needs to change with the times
because of expansion of road network, outmigration of
men from rural areas, and demands of trekkers for
better facilities, by Kunda Dixit (nt 31/10/2014)
Mulde
Peak:
Dobato-Khopra route is catching on among trekkers who
want to get away from the crowds on the main
Ghorepani-Ghandruk trail, by Kunda Dixit (nt
31/10/2014)
Value-added
hiking:
Nepal’s trekking is at a cross-road, in need of a
quality upgrade, by Donatella Lorch (nt
31/10/2014)
NTB
gives
marching orders to its chief, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 31/10/2014), Nirola
suspended
over financial irregularities: Nandini Lahe-Thapa
appointed acting CEO; Ratish Chandra Lal Suman elected
secretary in NTB board (ht 31/10/2014)
TAAN
hopeful
about trekkers’ flow (ht 30/10/2014)
Apex
court
upholds Jha’s appointment as NTA chief, by Pranab
Kharel and Sanjeev Giri (kp 29/10/2014)
Khumbu
listed
among Lonely Planet’s 10 best regions (kp
29/10/2014)
Trekkers
cautionedafter
Cyclone Nilofar, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 28/10/2014)
Tourists
starts
returning from base camp (rep 24/10/2014)
CAP
to
set up information centres, shelters along route,
by Rup Narayan Dhakal (ht 22/10/2014)
Advanced
intervention:
Experts suggest setting up modern weather forecast
technology and introducing policies to ensure safety
of trekkers and mountaineers, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 21/10/2014), Timely
weather
forecast goes a long way to minimise toll, by
Pragati Shahi (kp 21/10/2014), Govt:
Weather
warnings were issued (kp 22/10/2014), Lot
yet
to be done in early warning, guide training: Govt,
by Kamal Pariyar (rep 22/10/2014)
Diaspora
for
development: Along with Shesh Ghale’s Sheraton
Kathmandu Hotel, the NRNA must continue to focus on
Nepal’s tourism prospects, by Surya B. Prasai (kp
21/10/2014)
Bhaktapur
sees
tourist numbers rise 12.6pc, by Anup Ojha (kp
21/10/2014)
Ban
on
trekking along Thorong La (kp 18/10/2014), TAAN
bans
entry above Upper Manang in Annapurna Circuit citing
security (ht 18/10/2014), Tourist
tracking
system suggested for Annapurna Circuit, by Dilip
Paudel (rep 18/10/2014), Call
to
lift Annapurna Circuit route ban (ht 20/10/2014),
TAAN
lifts
ban on Annapurna Circuit trekking (ht 21/10/2014),
Trekking
in
Thorong La Pass resumes (ht 23/10/2014)
Chitwan
jungle
resorts: Writ against contracts renewal quashed
(kp 17/10/2014)
Tourism
And
Community Development Nepal's Critical Experience,
by Shanker Man Singh (rn 17/10/2014)
KGN
eyes
luxury travellers (kp 17/10/2014), KGH:
A
journey from budget to boutique hotel, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 20/10/2014)
Pvt
sector
to support Tourism Vision 2020 (ht 16/10/2014), Tourism
industry
decides to execute Vision 2020 (kp 18/10/2014)
Tourist
Police
receiving more complaints: Most of the cases are
related to theft, loss of belongings (ht
13/10/2014)
Chinese
arrivals
rising steadily: Number of Chinese tourists grew by 60
percent in 2013 (rep 13/10/2014)
Foundation
stone
laid for 17-storey luxury hotel (kp 12/10/2014)
Rs
8b
high-rise hotel coming up in Kantipath, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 11/10/2014), ‘Sheraton
Kathmandu’
to start operation by 2018 (ht 11/10/2014)
Pack
your
gear and go: Trekking in Nepal is booming, but faces
competition from a spreading road network and
underpricing, by Elvin L. Shrestha (nt 10/10/2014)
Child
porters
trusted more, by Ananda Gautam (kp 09/10/2014)
Sightseers
throng
Rara during Dashain break (kp 09/10/2014)
Diners
found
overcharging travellers during Dashain, by Pawan
Yadav (kp 08/10/2014)
Paragliding
to
start soon in the valley (nn 04/10/2014)
World
Tourism
Day marked with fanfare (kp 28/09/2014)
Kathmandu
hotels
expect occupancy to rebound in Oct-Nov (kp
26/09/2014)
Nepali
team
in India to push Buddhist circuit (kp 26/09/2014)
HAN
signs
agreement with Thai hoteliers (ht 26/09/2014)
Travellers
to
altitudes need to be encouraged to go up gradually
without the use of drugs, by Buddha Basnyat (nt
26/09/2014)
Lack
of
foot trail hits Dhorpatan tourism, by Prakash
Baral (kp 25/09/2014)
Govt
slammed
for not taking action against NTB officials, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 25/09/2014), Tourism
ministry
clueless about NTB's spending (rep 25/09/2014)
Tourists
stranded
as locals block Beni-Jomsom road, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 23/09/2014)
Gender
pay
gap in eco-tourism, by Nirmala Adhikari (kp
21/09/2014)
Nepali
outbound
surges, Thailand top destination, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 19/09/2014)
Congested
Pokhara
airspace: Govt not to issue new paragliding permits
(kp 19/09/2014), Government
clipping
wings of air sports in Lake City, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 20/09/2014)
Monitors
seal
3 hotels for hygiene violations (kp 19/09/2014)
Department
of
Tourism revived (ht 19/09/2014), Tourism
Department
brought back to streamline administration (kp
20/09/2014)
Once
Maoist
battlegrounds, now tourism hotspots, by Kashiram
Dangi (kp 14/09/2014)
National
Tourism
Strategy Plan in the pipeline, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 10/09/2014)
Ni
hao
Nepal: The increasing number of Chinese tourists
travelling to Nepal is a huge opportunity for airline
companies, by Pramesh K.C. (kp 09/09/2014)
Irregularities
at
Nepal Tourism Board: Probe panel unearths massive
corruption, by Sangam Prasain (kp 09/09/2014)
Tourism
entrepreneurs
seek change in provision (ht 29/08/2014)
Police
post
to exclusively cater to tourists in Bhaktapur area,
by Anup Ojha (kp 27/08/2014)
Travel
for
work: Recent survey on employment in tourism could
provide direction to this sector (kp 27/08/2014)
Chinese
arrivals
reach all-time high of 113k (kp 26/08/2014)
Chinese,
Indians
among shortest stayers (kp 26/08/2014)
TAAN
blasts
union threat to send back tourists (kp
26/08/2014), CPN-M
workers
union campaigning against four trekking operators
(rep 26/08/2014)
Every
six
tourists create one job in Nepal: Study, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 22/08/2014)
Shangri
La
group to open new resort in Begnas, by Kriti Bhuju
(rep 21/08/2014)
No
of
tourists dips after roadblock: tourist numbers
decrease to 400 from 1,200 daily (kp 19/08/2014)
New
trekking
route to attract more tourists, by Santosh Pokhrel
(rep 18/08/2014)
Arabians,
too,
smitten with Pokhara, by Santosh Pokharel (rep
17/08/2014)
Trekking
business
goes downhill (ht 16/08/2014)
Loluphera
trek
in near future (ht 08/08/2014)
Ghalegaun
attracted
tourists in droves last fiscal (ht 02/08/2014)
Chinese
arrivals
will hit 250k-mark soon: Envoy (kp 02/08/2014)
TAAN
says
government positive to ban on solo trekkers, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 30/07/2014)
Pokhara
gets
23 new hotels, by Santosh Pokharel (rep
30/07/2014)
Private
sector
proposes two-tier board for NTB (kp 27/07/2014)
Shivapuri
entry
fee forcyclists hiked heavily (ht 26/07/2014), Cyclists
oppose
national park entry fee hike, by Nirmala Adhikari
(kp 30/07/2014)
Shuklaphanta
Jungle
Cottage starts operation, by Kriti Bhuju (rep
26/07/2014)
Department
of
Tourism on the cards (ht 23/07/2014)
Unlicensed
guides
to be barred from trekking areas from Jan: Trekking
workers get pay hike (rep 15/07/2014)
MS
Group
to build 5-star deluxe hotel (kp 12/07/2014)
The
great
Himalayan traverse: Adventure tourists give trekking
in Nepal a whole new meaning by doing wilder, longer
routes, by Mat Miller (nt 11/07/2014)
Tourists’
spending
declined by 1.25pc (ht 11/07/2014), Indians
and
Chinese remain top tourists (rep 11/07/2014)
Irregularities
at
tourism board: Panel seeks‘demarcation’of probe areas
(kp 06/07/2014)
Chinese
arrivals
to Nepal jump two-fold in 3 years (kp 04/07/2014)
Tourist
arrivals
by air ‘drop’ in June (kp 02/07/2014), Tourist
arrivals
dip 0.30 pc (ht 02/07/2014)
Medical
tourism:
Potential industry, by Sailesh Kumar Mishra (ht
02/07/2014)
Untapped
resource:
Accessible tourism enables the people with
disabilities and senior citizens to function
independently, with equity and dignity, by Pallav
Pant (rep 30/06/2014)
Mid-west's
first
homestay service starts operation, by Hira Bahadur
Gharti Magar (rep 28/06/2014)
Tourists
spend
less time, more money, by Sangam Prasain (kp
27/06/2014)
CIAA
launches
probe into alleged NTB irregularities (kp
27/06/2014)
Hotels
may
be required to keep electronic records of foreigners,
by Shreejana Shrestha (rep 24/06/2014)
Arrivals
swell
21pc in April-May to 119,000 (kp 21/06/2014), Tourist
arrivals
rise by 15.74 per cent (ht 21/06/2014)
Opening
of
new trails to Sisne Himal elates tourists (ht
20/06/2014)
CIAA
gives
NTB 3-day ultimatum to clean up mess (kp
19/06/2014), CIAA
directs
govt to resume services at NTB: Anti-graft body gives
MoCTCA three-day deadline, to take action if ministry
fails to do so (ht 19/06/2014), Government
removes
acting CEO of NTB (ht 20/06/20ß14), NTB
business
restartsafter govt removes CEO (kp 20/06/2014)
Thamel
to
see first five-star hotel,commercial complex within
two years (ht 18/06/2014)
Hotel
occupancy
dips in 2013: Proliferation of new accommodation like
home stays blamed, by Sangam Prasain (kp
17/06/2014)
Domestic
tourists
keep rafting afloat, by Kriti Bhuju (rep
17/06/2014)
Hoteliers
seek
tax exemption for expansion in remote areas (rep
15/06/2014)
Trekking
entrepreneurs
seek budget to explore new routes, by Kriti Bhuju
(rep 12/06/2014)
The
tourism
sector and CAAN need a complete overhaul,
interview with Bhim Prasad Acharya (kp 09/06/2014)
New
standards
for tourist buses plying Beni-Jomsom road, by
Santosh Pokharel (rep 07/06/2014)
Effective
measures
sought for trekkers’ safety, by Khumbaraj Rai (kp
04/06/2014)
Tourist
length
of stay hits four-year low in 2013, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 04/06/2014)
NTB
controversy
needs immediate solution, by Manjushree Adhikari
(ht 01/06/2014), Taskforce
soon
to reform NTB: Minister (kp 02/06/2014), Travel
trade
entrepreneurs withdraw protests (kp 03/06/2014), Audit
reveals
mismatch between NTB’s financial, bank statements,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 03/06/2014)
New
climbing
permits leaves tourism entreprenuers upbeat, by
Dhruva Dangal (rep 28/05/2014)
Tourism
entrepreneurs
to launch fresh protests: Denounce probe panel
formed by MoTCA to investigate irregularities in Nepal
Tourism Board (ht 27/05/2014), Police
break
up peace rally by travel traders, 15 held (kp
28/05/2014), Tourism
entrepreneurs
clash with police (ht 28/05/2014), Police
intervene
in peaceful rally of tourism entrepreneurs (rep
28/05/2014), JTCC
unveils
fresh protest programs, to shut down all tourism
related services, by Kirti Bhuju (rep 29/05/2014),
Private
sector
protest: 30 days on, no govt efforts yet (kp
30/05/2014), JTCC
calls
off planned strikes, shutdowns (ht 01/06/2014), JTCC
withdraws
strikes in 3 cities (rep 01/06/2014), Agitating
tourism
entrepreneurs call off all protests (ht
03/06/2014)
Not
welcome:
The Nepal Tourism Board should take lead to stop
discrimination against local tourists trekking within
the country, by Gitta Shrestha (kp 27/05/2014)
Tourism:
Most
Sustainable Economic Backbone, by D.M. Thapa (rn
23/05/2014)
Fresh
Rs1
billion investment in Pokhara hotels, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 21/05/2014)
Promotion
of
disabled-friendly tourism urged, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 20/05/2014)
Tourist
arrival
in Mustang may go down, by Kriti Bhuju (rep
11/05/2014)
Jhapa’s
Tapoban
master plan in limbo (ht 04/05/2014)
NTB
calls
off planned tourism fair after sit-in (kp
01/05/2014), Travel
traders
go to PM to complain about NTB (kp 02/05/2014), End
NTB
mismanagement, JTCC asks Prime Minister (ht
02/05/2014), Irregularities
at
NTB: As strike takes toll, NTB staff seek solution
(kp 03/05/2014), Irregularities
at
Nepal Tourism Board: Private sector protest gets more
support (kp 04/05/2014), Travel
traders
intensify protest against NTB after arrest threat
(kp 07/05/2014), NTB-entrepreneurs
spat
hits tourism (ht 09/05/2014), Lawmakers
join
clamour against NTB’s misconduct (kp 10/05/2014),
Tourism
bodies
to intensify stir against NTB (ht 11/05/2015), Travel
traders
reject panel to probe NTB (kp 12/05/2014), JTCC
shuts
TIMS counter at NTB (rep 12/05/2014), JTCC
issues
white paper on anomalies in NTB (13/05/2014), Entrepreneurs
on
hunger strike against NTB action (kp 16/05/2015),
Nepotism
plagues
Tourism Board (kp 16/05/2014), TAAN
facing
shortage of TIMS cards, by Kriti Bhuju (rep
17/05/2014), Political
party
bigwigs side with agitating travel traders (kp
20/05/2014), Tourism
entrepreneurs
get political support (ht 20/05/2014), Politicians
rally
behind tourism entrepreneurs (ht 21/05/2014)
Slovak
missing
in Everest region (kp 29/04/2014), Police
search
on for missing Slovak cyclist (kp 30/04/2014)
Cheaper
tourists
means your natural resources are getting exploited,
interview with Upaul Majumdar (kp 28/04/2014)
Twenty
travel
agencies to boycott NTB programmes: Accuse NTB
officials of engaging in ‘massive’ irregularities
(kp 23/04/2014)
Has
Everest
avalanche discouraged tourists?, by Rup Narayan
Dhakal (ht 23/04/2014)
Nepal
should
brand itself as an inexpensive destination to
encourage mass tourism, interview with Hari Man
Lama (nn 21/04/2014)
Annapurna
Circuit
opts for alternative trek route, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 19/04/2014)
Rs
1.5
billion invested in Rupandehi hotels, by Sher
Bahadur K.C. (rep 19/04/2014)
First
tourist-class
lodge opens at Dhorpatan, by Prakash Baral (kp
16/04/2014)
Plans
afoot
to develop Pyuthan (ht 14/04/2014)
The
art
of soft power: Promoting tourism as a form of niche
diplomacy would be one way for Nepal to exercise its
soft power potential, by Yam Prasad Chaulagain (kp
13/04/2014)
Swelling
arrivals
spur hotel boom in East, by Lila Ballav and (kp
12/04/2014)
Han
unveils
10-pt plan to boost tourism (kp 05/04/2014)
Healthy
makes
wealthy: Making traveller’s health a priority could
attract more tourists to Nepal, by Hariz Baharudin
(nt 04/04/2014)
Tourism
entrepreneurs
fan out to Pokhara’s suburbs, by Lal Prasad Sharma
(kp 02/04/2014)
Syndicate
alleged
on Century trekking trail, by Shiva Sharma (kp
01/04/2014)
Mustang
transport
operators harass foreign tourists, by Santosh
Pokhrel (rep 31/03/2014)
Millions
of
rupees collected through TIMS remain unutilized,
by Santosh Pokhrel (rep 30/03/2014)
5-star
hotels
upbeat over advance booking trends, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 28/03/2014)
Talking
About
Tourism, by D.M. Thapa (rn 28/03/2014)
NTB
eyes
historic palaces, ponds for tourism sites (kp
24/03/2014), Tourism
board
seeks long-term strategy (ht 24/03/2014)
Tourism
supported
504k jobs in Nepal in 2013, by Sangam Prasain (kp
23/03/2014)
Upbeat
about
tourism, pvt sector pours money in hospitality sector,
by Rudra Pangeni (ht 23/03/2014)
German
national
missing in Annapurna Circuit (rep 23/03/2014)
Water
crunch
hits homestay facilities (ht 22/03/2014)
Transporters
seek
monopoly on ferrying SAARC tourists, by Rup
Narayan Dhakal (ht 16/03/2014)
Getting
back
on its feet: Nepal’s tourism, by James Rinaldi (ht
14/03/2014)
Tourism
Ministry
plans major restructuring (kp 13/03/2014)
Sun
Koshi
named best for rafting (kp 05/03/2014)
Experts
urge
trekkers not to venture out with guides, by
Santosh Pokharel (rep 05/03/2014)
Six
trek
routes to open up (ht 05/03/2014)
Trekker
from
Birgunj killed in snow storm (ht 01/03/2014), One
dies,
six injured after being caught in blizzard (rep
01/03/2014)
Capitalize
on
it: Inclusiveness is hallmark of our tourism involving
people from across the country, by Aditya Baral
(rep 27/02/2014)
PADT
trying
to draw more tourists from abroad (rep 24/02/2014)
Foreign
tourist
arrivals in controlled areas up 11 percent (kp
21/02/2014), Tourist
in
Manang up despite road link, by Prem Kumari Ghale
(kp 21/02/2014)
Plan
to
convert Buddha’s hometown into tourist site, by
Manoj Poudel (kp 12/02/2014)
If
you
build it, they will come: Tuk Bahadur Thapa of Bauwa
Gumba, Palpa, is worried about the drop-off in tourist
arrivals to his village since the road that led there
began breaking down some years ago, by Anup Ojha
(kp 08/02/2014)
Only
20%
of Sauraha hotels registered with TID (rep
08/02/2014)
Nepal
eyes
tourism spillover from India’s easy visa policy,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 08/02/2014)
More
tourists
visiting Nepal for mountain biking, by Kriti Bhuju
(rep 02/02/2014)
Adventure
sport
thrills tourists, by Shiva Sharma (kp 29/01/2014)
Investment
pouring
in hotel sector, by Lila Ballav Ghimire (kp
27/01/2014)
Online
visa
application system launched (nn 27/01/2014), Visa
extension
via online only: Decision made effective from February
1 (ht 28/01/2014)
Hotel
bookings
for Feb, March promising (rep 26/01/2014)
It’s
not
only about Phewa Lake, Himalayas, by Shiva Sharma
(kp 23/01/2014)
Homestay
now
available in Domukha (kp 21/01/2014)
Ostrich
farm
boosts domestic tourism, by Durgalal KC (kp
21/01/2014)
Star
hotels
to get tax incentives in Lekhnath, by Keshav
Lamichhane (kp 18/01/2014)
Annapurna
foot
trail: E-tags launched to rescue troubled trekkers,
by Ghanashyam Khadka (kp 16/01/2014)
Eight
star
hotels, deluxe resorts coming up, by Kriti Bhuju
(rep 16/01/2014)
Nepal
can
accommodate 7.44m tourists annually: NRB report,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 13/01/2014)
NYT
names
Nepal as one of the must-visit nations (ht
13/01/2014)
Decrease
in
Sagarmatha National Park visitors in 2013 (nn
12/01/2014)
Most
of
the tourists in Nepal are from India (Jagran
12/01/2014)
Tourism
and
safeguarding cultural and natural heritage, by Kai
Weise (ht 11/01/2014)
Number
of
trekkers in Annapurna region up, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 11/01/2014)
Dismal
2013, by Debesh Adhikari (sp 10/01/2014)
1.33
million
visited Nepal in 2012: NTB (kp 10/01/2014)
Tourism
has
emerged as major econ activity: Secy (kp
10/01/2014), NTB
seeks
long-term strategy (ht 10/01/2014)
Domestic,
Indian
tourists up in Lumbini (ht 07/01/2014)
Transporters
misbehave
with tourists in Mustang (ht 05/01/2014)
Unlike
rest
of Nepal, upper Mustang received more tourists in 2013,
by Dilip Paudel (rep 05/01/2014)
Tourist
arrivals
via air drop 4.9 percent in December (kp
04/01/2014), Tourist
arrivals
down 5 percent (rep 04/01/2014)
ACAP
has
technology to track trekkers (ht 04/01/2014), ACAP
designs
e-tags to track trekkers, by Santosh Pokharel (reo
04/01/2014)
No
go
zone: The bid to get controlled areas opened for
tourism is facing obstacles, mainly due to
‘Tibet-related sensitivities’, by Navin Singh
Khadka (kp 03/01/2014)
Tourism
disappoints
in 2013 after 2-year growth, by Sangam Prasain (kp
01/01/2014)
Pokhara
tourism
expects 2014 to herald new era of growth, by
Sangam Prasain and Shiva Sharma (kp 01/01/2014)
Chinese
tourists
take great leap forward (kp 01/01/2014)
A
roller-coaster year for tourism, aviation, by
Kriti Bhuju (rep 01/01/2014)
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