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Nepal Tourism Year 2011 Campaign
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On Sunday, January 25, 2009, in a press conference, Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation Hisila Yami disclosed several programs on the Nepal Tourism Year 2011 campaign. The campaign targeted at increasing the tourist arrival more than a million by 2011.
The government has set up a main campaign committee under the Vice-chairman of the National Planning commission with secretaries to various ministries, mayors of Metropolitan City, sub-metropolitan cities and municipalities, presidents of travel trade agencies and other related associations and institutions as members. The chief executive officer of Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) is designated a member-secretary of the committee.
The Minister also disclosed the government’s plan on linking Nepal with Riyadh, Lhasa, Gwanjhau, Frankfurt and London by air by the end of 2010 and on starting air links between Nepal and Mumbai, Shanghai and Tokyo in March 2009 to bring as many tourists as possible. The government is improving the facilities at the International airport in Kathmandu to ease the check-ins and checkouts of tourists without delay.
The government is assisting in improving and expanding the tourism facilities and creating new tourism sites, enhancing the capacity of hotels and other services required for tourists, building community capacity to meet the needs of tourists and promoting domestic tourism for sustaining the industry.
The government is also launching special promotional packages in the USA, Europe, Japan, Australia, South East Asia, Middle East Asia, China and India in order to attract more tourists to Nepal to achieve the target of more than one million tourist arrivals by 2011.
