Tourism News
Foreign Minister of Finland invited to attend ‘Sagarmatha dialogue 2020’
Kathmandu: Nepal’s Minister for Education, Science, and Technology Giri Raj Mani Pokharel, who is on a visit to Finland has invited Finland’s foreign Minister Pekka Olavi Haavisto to visit Nepal on behalf of foreign minister Pradeep Gyawali Tuesday, RSS reported. Minister Pokharel offered the official invitation to minister Haavisto to…
Read More »Domestic tourists visiting Gaighat waterfall
Kathmandu: (RSS). As many as 7,000 domestic tourists have reached Gaighat waterfall during the festive season of Dashain and Tihar this time. Last year around 20,000 tourists had observed the waterfall. There is an increasing trend of tourists visiting the waterfall located at Tarakhola rural municipality-1 from the very beginning…
Read More »Tourist notice board to be established at Dhaulagiri base camp
Kathmandu: (RSS). A building has been constructed to launch a tourist notice board at the base camp of Dhaulagiri (8167 m) mountain which is the seventh highest mountain in the world. The notice board is purposely built to document the records of tourist data related to their visits and delivery…
Read More »Danish tourist dies after falling in the crevasse
A foreigner who came to Nepal to travel around the Khumbu area died after falling 200 meters deep in the crevasse. Andreas Beck Pedersen, a 34-year-old male from Denmark who was traveling to Khumbu region, died on the spot while returning from an Iceland peak climb on Friday, according to…
Read More »Trekkers’ shelter installed at 5080 meters across Tashi Lapcha in Nepal
Kathmandu: The record holder climber Phurba Sherpa and his friend an Austrian national Josef Einwaller had dreamed to make a shelter for trekkers at an altitude of 5000 meter, which can save their lives in bad weather and promote tourism. The dream came true after they installed “David Lama Biwak”…
Read More »Public transport to carry VNY 2020 logo
Kathmandu: (RSS). All public transports are to carry the logo of Visit Nepal Year (VNY) according to an agreement reached between the tourism ministry and Nepal Transport National Federation Thursday. The logo for a national campaign of VNY 2020 will be glued to every public transport with pictures of various…
Read More »Bangladeshi President Hamid enjoys the boat ride in Fewatal
Kathmandu: (RSS). President of Bangladesh, Mohammad Abdul Hamid along with his spouse enjoyed a boat ride in Fewa Lake in course of his Pokhara visit on Thursday. Security has been tightened at the Fewa Lake area due to Hamid’s visit to this area. Similarly, a luncheon has been hosted at…
Read More »Tourists increase in Bulbule lake, Surkhet
Kathmandu:(RSS). Internal and external tourists, have increased at Bulbule tal (lake) which is one of the popular destinations for tourists in Surkhet in far western Nepal. The number of tourists to visit this Bulbule lake increased due to the attractive sight of this lake. Internal tourists usually visit this destination…
Read More »Influx of tourists from Bangladesh to Nepal plummets
Kathmandu: Kakarbhitta department of immigration informed that the influx of tourists to Nepal from Bangladesh has decreased these days. According to RSS, the entry of Bangladeshi tourists to Nepal from the entry point of Kakarbhitta which was recorded to be above 11,000 per year ten years ago has suddenly decreased…
Read More »View tower constructed in Tanahu
Kathmandu(RSS): In a bid to boost local tourism, a view tower has been constructed at Galekhamkot of Vyas Municipality-6 in Tanahu district. Expected to aid in Visit Nepal 2020, the view tower can accommodate more than 20 viewers at a time. Byas municipality-6 Chairman, Suryabhakta Bhandari, informed that view tower…
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NMA Introduces Revised Curriculum for Professional Mountaineering Training
Kathmandu: The Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) has introduced a revised curriculum for its Professional …
