Tourism News

Kathmandu: The health professionals aligned with SAARC member nations in a video conference held on Thursday have collectively expressed their solidarity to jointly fight against COVID-19 in South Asia in close collaboration and cooperation. The media reports trickling in on Friday said that all the SAARC member nations have consented…

Kathmandu: A special Qatar Airways flight that landed at Tribhuvan International Airport Friday morning has returned with 305 foreign nationals mostly Germans and French on board according to Civil Aviation sources. These were the foreign tourists who had been stranded in various parts of the country including the Everest region,…

Kathmandu: A search has been intensified for finding out the foreign-returnee people in Parbat district while 182 such people have already been placed under home quarantine. Chief District Officer, Kalpana Ghimire Nepal, said a search is underway at all the seven local levels and 61 local wards in the district…

Kathmandu: One hundred and twenty-one tourists from 21 various countries who had been stranded in Mustang have been sent to Kathmandu while 68 more are awaiting their turn. These visitors had reached Mustang via the Round-Annapurna Trekking Route and were stranded following the enforcement of the lockdown against coronavirus pandemic…

Kathmandu: Rescue of stranded tourists from various parts of Nepal has begun from Thursday early morning according to Nepal Tourism Board (NTB). Around 300 foreigners were stranded in the Everest region including Lukla and Pokhara due to the lockdown situation in the country due to the growing terror of the…

Kathmandu: A chartered Buddha air aircraft is flying to Pokhara to rescue 47 French tourists stranded in Pokhara due to a weeklong nationwide lockdown in the country owing to global COVID-19 pandemic. Buddha air sources on Thursday said that the chartered plane is being sent to Pokhara to rescue the…

Kathmandu: At a time when Nepal is facing a weeklong nationwide lockdown amid fears and terror of the global Coronavirus pandemic, the government has decided to reopen Tatopani and Rasuwagadhi border points in the north to ease the supply of essential goods. Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ishwar Pokhrel…

Kathmandu: Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD) seized 300 vehicles from different areas of Kathmandu Valley on Wednesday for breaching the lockdown orders imposed by the government to prevent the rapid spread of COVID-19. MTPD Spokesperson SP Jeewan Kumar Shrestha informed that the vehicles plying on the roads against the lockdown…

Kathmandu: Santosh Yadav, who died at Bharatpur-based Corona Special Hospital on Tuesday, has tested negative for coronavirus infection. The test of his samples is found to be negative according to the lab report. The hospital sources said Yadav along with other suspects also have tested negative for the infection. Another…

Kathmandu: The Ministry of Health and Population on Wednesday confirmed the third positive case of Coronavirus in Nepal. National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL) under the Ministry of Health and Population confirmed the positive case of Coronavirus in another person by mentioning it on its official website today. The infected person…