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Achieving Tourism Target
By KTM Metro Reporter In Kathmandu
On September 27, 2009, the Nepal Tourism Board has celebrated this year’s tourism day sending its representatives to welcome visitors at the International Airport, Kathmandu. Most probably, they believe that simply garlanding a few visitors at the airport on the tourism day, the number of visitors would increase without knowing the troubles the visitors have to face at the immigration and then at the luggage collection center.
The KTM Metro Reporter happened to be at the airport to receive his foreign friend coming from abroad. According to the friend, visitors have to stand on a long line for hours at the immigration to get visa, as only two counters have been working for so many visitors coming from different airlines. Then, he came to the baggage collection center, the conveyor did not work. All visitors have been waiting for their baggage at the gates; after waiting for some time he himself has to go to the baggage car and collect the baggage. It took him two hours to come out of the Nepalese airport. He was wondering how would the Nepalese immigration and cargo people handle a million visitors they have been targeting to receive by 2011 working in this style?
