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]]>During an executive program on Asia Pacific Region’s Tourism Policy and Strategy held in the Maldives, the UNWTO officials have assured persistent support for Nepal’s tourism sector.
On the occasion, Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) CEO Dr. Dhananjay Regmi spoke with UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili and Director of Regional Department for Asia and the Pacific Harry Hwang.
They discussed about tourism recovery and other serious issues of tourism sector in the post-pandemic era.
“The UNWTO officials are willing to support Nepal’s sustainable tourism development, natural and mountaineering tourism development and institutional capacity enhancement,” said Dr. Regmi.
“Different countries are receiving various types of support from the UNWTO. They have received direct benefit too. In this context, the meetings with them in regard to support to Nepal remained fruitful,” he added.
The UNWTO have committed to organize some tourism programs of Asia Pacific region in Nepal in 2023.
During the program, Dr. Regmi also met Maldivian Foreign Minister. They discussed the issues related to tourism development and mutual cooperation between two countries.
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]]>The park had shuttered the tourism activities at the beginning of the second of coronavirus to curb the spread of the virus.
Every year, the park stops its tourist activities during the monsoon. The internal tourism activities restart after the rains subside. However, as the activities were already hit due to the pandemic, the park decided to reopen during the monsoon itself.
All sorts of activities have been operationalized, said the park’s Chief Conservation Officer Ananath Baral says. These operationalized activities include external and internal park sightseeing.
Baral stated that the jeep safaris have begun as the roads inside the park have been fixed. One can also opt for elephant safaris, jeep rides, or even jungle walks available at the community forest next to the park.
Visitors can opt for night stays in the houses built in the community forest. In addition, interested tourists can opt for boat rides across the Rapti river which traverses the park.
The President of the Regional Hotel Association in Sauraha, Deepak Bhattarai, stated that tourists coming over to Sauraha could participate in all the activities at the national park.
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]]>Purnima, along with 19 team members, scaled the 8,167-metre peak located at Dhaulagiri Rural Municipality-4 in Myagdi district at 5 AM today.
The mountaineering team had started their climb on September 18 from Marpha of Mustang district with the management of the Seven Summit Trekking Company, Kathmandu.
“This is the first ascent to Mt. Dhaulagiri by a Nepali woman. Prior to this, there is no record of Nepali woman climbing to Mt Dhaulagiri before,” said the trekking company’s head Mingma Sherpa.
However, it is yet to be confirmed whether Shrestha and other members of the expedition team ascended to the top of the mountain.
Photojournalist by profession, Purnima earlier this year scaled Mt. Annapurna-I on April 16. Likewise, she also successfully scaled world’s tallest peaks Mt. Everest, Mt. Manaslu and Mt. Amadablam.
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]]>Chairman of Nepal Airsports Association (NAW), Krishna Bhandari, stated that the tour operators would be permitted to restart the tourism activities.
As the government decided to roll back the prohibitory order which restricted activities due to the global pandemic.
“We have already organized a paragliding safety and awareness program to resume the service. Similarly, the condition of paragliding devices has been checked,” the Chairman said. “All the paragliding companies have successfully conducted test flights before resuming the flights, and the resumption is likely in a couple of days.”
Paragliding is a mainstay activity of Pokhara. The adventure tourism activity started in Pokhara in 1999. Currently, Pokhara has 60 paragliding companies and 350 pilots who are in the paragliding tourism sector. 15 of the 350 pilots are foreigners.
The sector has NPR 1 billion investment strapped on, and 1,000 people are directly employed and connected to the sector. After the first wave of Covid-19 subsided, the companies offered 50-60 percent discount to the customers. The discounts attracted a lot of domestic tourists to Pokhara.
The paragliding operators will have to decide the new fares said the NAW General Secretary Balaram Acharya.
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]]>They opined that the Himalayan nation is now a safe destination for tourism as the country has reigned in the coronavirus spread nationally. Additionally, most of the people employed in the tourism sector are vaccinated.
The operators held a meeting in Kathmandu on Monday and asked that the government remove the COVID-19 restrictions hampering tourism activities for completely vaccinated tourists and furnish the visas to the tourists on arrival. They also asked the government to publicize that Nepal is a safe destination for tourism on a global scale.
At the meeting, Sarita Lama, the General Secretary of Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal, emphasized the urgency of this decision as Nepal’s tourism activity peaks from September to November. If the decision is not taken in time, the tourism industry could be hit.
Raj Gyawali, an entrepreneur, said that the government should act immediately and issue an advisory that the country is safe for tourists.
The chief of the immigration department, Jhanka Nath Dhakal, was optimistic about granting the visa on arrival for tourists and about issuing an advisory. However, he stated that the cabinet would have to ratify the demands put forth.
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]]>They opined that the Himalayan nation is now a safe destination for tourism as the country has reigned in the coronavirus spread nationally. Additionally, most of the people employed in the tourism sector are vaccinated.
The operators held a meeting in Kathmandu on Monday and asked that the government remove the COVID-19 restrictions hampering tourism activities for completely vaccinated tourists and furnish the visas to the tourists on arrival. They also asked the government to publicize that Nepal is a safe destination for tourism on a global scale.
At the meeting, Sarita Lama, the General Secretary of Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal, emphasized the urgency of this decision as Nepal’s tourism activity peaks from September to November. If the decision is not taken in time, the tourism industry could be hit.
Raj Gyawali, an entrepreneur, said that the government should act immediately and issue an advisory that the country is safe for tourists.
The chief of the immigration department, Jhanka Nath Dhakal, was optimistic about granting the visa on arrival for tourists and about issuing an advisory. However, he stated that the cabinet would have to ratify the demands put forth.
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]]>As per the immigration department, 1,985 Indians touristed Nepal last month while 2,192 SAARC tourists landed in Nepal.
Additionally, 1,244 US travelers, 416 tourists from England, and 253 Chinese travelers visited Nepal during August.
Nepal’s tourism sector, which is one of the most significant sectors in the country, was impacted adversely by COVID-19.
After the first wave ended, the hospitality sector was gathering steam. However, the country’s second wave emergence dashed the hopes of the sector.
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]]>Nepal, which houses 8 of the highest mountain peaks in the world, has started issuing permits for climbing the Himalayan mountains in this autumn season.
On Tuesday, the Tourism Department has issued mountaineering permits to two groups, the first permit of the Autumn expedition season that starts in September.
According to the Department of Tourism, one expedition group has 15 members, while the other has 10 members. The teams are set to scale Mt. Manaslu, the world’s eighth tallest peak at 8,163 meters.
The DoT has collected a total of NPR 2.646 million as royalty from the climbers.
Expedition company ‘Imagine Nepal Trek and Expedition’ is organizing the climb for the 15-member team.
Company director Mingma Gyalje Sherpa said that a Chinese climber would lead the expedition team.
“There are two climbers from China and other climbers from different countries,” Sherpa said. “The Chinese climber who is leading the team had climbed Mt. Lhotse in the spring season but stayed in Nepal due to flight restrictions amid the second wave of COVID-19 in Nepal.”
He also informed that the expedition team will start their summit to Mt. Manaslu after all the members have completed their quarantine for ten days in Kathmandu.
Usually, most mountaineers summit the Himalayan mountains in spring season, but a few try their luck in autumn season also.
In the last autumn season, the DoT has issued climbing permits for eight teams comprising 58 mountaineers to climb five peaks.
In spring season this year, a total of 633 mountaineers and their supporting staff scaled six peaks, including Mt. Everest, the world’s tallest at 8848.86 meters.
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]]>Despite the threat of the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the Himalayan country welcomed around 3,000 international tourists last month.
According to the Department of Immigration, 2,991 tourists, including 1,940 men and 1,050 women, arrived in Nepal in July 2021 via Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA). In June, the arrivals stood at 1,143.
The country-wise tourist arrivals in Nepal in July 2021 are as follows:
| Foreign country | No. of Tourists |
| India | 1105 |
| USA | 819 |
| UK | 185 |
| Turkey | 165 |
| Canada | 78 |
| China | 50 |
| Belgium | 45 |
| France | 41 |
Likewise, 26 tourists from the Netherlands, 19 from Russia, 14 from Bhutan, five from Pakistan, four from Bangladesh, and three from Sri Lanka had arrived in Nepal in the last month.
In the same period, around 3,157 international travelers have departed from TIA.
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Meanwhile, a total of 25,205 Nepali citizens have returned home, taking the total number of travelers, including foreigners, landing at TIA in July to 28,196.
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]]>The demand was put forth by Pokhara Tourism Council Chairman Gopi Bahadur Bhattarai on Tuesday. He approached the Finance Minister of Gandaki Province, Ramjee Baral.
He asked for the immediate vaccination arrangement as the tourism sector was one of the worst-hit sectors due to the global contagion.
Chairman Bhattarai stated that the demanded dosage would be provided to the workers of hotels and restaurants in the first phase. “Though it requires 20,000 doses for entire tourism entrepreneurs in Pokhara, we have merely demanded 5,000 vaccines to address the immediate need”, he said.
The tourism delegation, composed of Chairman Bhattarai, operators Agni Kandel, Basu Tripathi, and Tikaram Sapkota, also asked for a new schedule on loan repayment. Due to the pandemic impact, small and medium enterprises would struggle to repay the actual loan installments and interest amounts within two years.
The delegation asked the government to consider the tourism sector as a top priority in the fiscal year of 2021/22.
Minister Baral stated that the provincial government had conveyed it to the central government pertaining to the vaccines. Additionally, the provincial administration would revive the tourism sector in its permissible capacity.
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