Tourism News

Snowfall in the hills: File Photo Kathmandu: Incessant snowfall in the hilly regions of Nepal has crippled normal life across the whole nation within the last few days. The normal life of far western regions of Mugu, Humla, Jumpa and Dolpa, Kalikot districts are mostly affected by the snowfall. Flights…

Himalaya Airlines has restarted direct flights to Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. The airlines, set up with a joint investment of Nepal’s private sector and China, resumed direct flights to the Malaysian capital from Monday, Himalaya Airlines stated in a press release Wednesday. It had started a first direct…

Sita Air Kathmandu: Sita Air is set to operate flights from Bhadrapur and Biratnagar to Suketar and Lamidanda from December 15. This initiative of Sita Air targets the Visit Nepal Year, 2020, and is expected to help attract hundreds of tourists to Pathivara Temple, a tourist destination, said managing director…

Considering Visit Nepal 2020, the local concerned authorities and tourism entrepreneurs in Chitwan are preparing to introduce a new tourism product- Night Safari with Chepang Dishes – to the tourist visiting Chitwan, the third most popular tourist destination in the country after Kathmandu and Pokhara. Ratnanagar Municipality mayor Narayan Ban…

Kathmandu: Nepal Visit Year 2020 secretariat and Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Nepal chapter has launched the publicity of Nepal Visit Year 2020 in New Delhi on December 8, 2019. The launching program was held at Park Hotel during which more than a dozen high dignitaries associated with the travel…

Kathmandu: Chinese actress Xu Qing -Nepal’s ambassador for Visit Nepal Year 2020 –reached Bardia on Sunday. On reaching Thakurdwar of Bardia Qing interacted with the local people regarding tourism prospects and promised that she would make all efforts to promote the upcoming Nepal Visit Year 2020 by spreading the message…

Kathmandu: KASA Nepal is preparing to host a fashion show at the world’s highest-altitude- Kalapathar- to draw the world’s attention towards the tourism sector in Nepal. According to KASA Nepal, the great event of fashion at such a high altitude will be held on 24 January 2020 with the theme…

Kathmandu: Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) has planned to conduct tourism training targeting 5,000 people to promote the Nepal Visit Year 2020. According to NTB, the training aims to promote the Visit Year, contributing to realizing the goal of welcoming two million tourists during the period. Training beneficiaries will comprise of…

Kathmandu: Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa inaugurated the 4rth Jhamsikhel street carnival 2019 in Lalitpur on Saturday. The popular street carnival featured lok dohari, rock concert, Nepali folk music and standup comedy shows during which over 50 stalls of food, textiles, face painting, handicrafts, and carnival games were showcased and…

Kathmandu: Ambassador of Qatar to Nepal Yousuf bin Mohamed al-Hail said Qatar supports Nepal government’s initiative for Visit Nepal Year 2020 (VNY2020). Qatar ambassador Yousuf bin said this in an exclusive interview with a ‘Republica’ an English daily on Sunday. “Nepal enjoys a wide range of natural tourist features that…