Tourism News
Nepal’s aircraft lands in Osaka after 12 years
Kathmandu: Nepal’s national flag carrier airbus 330 (wide-body) has landed in Osaka, Japan Thursday after 12 years. On Thursday morning, at 2:30 a.m. Nepal Air Corporation’s Airbus-330 (Wide-body) flew to Osaka, carrying Tourism Minister Dhan Bahadur Budha, 95 passengers, and tourists, along with 76 guests. The wide-body aircraft having the…
Read More »Ghandruk among Asia’s 13 most beautiful tourist destinations
Kathmandu: Ghandruk, a beautiful village of Kaski district in Gandaki province has been enlisted as one of the top 13 most beautiful tourist destinations in Asia according to an international America based news media- CNN. CNN further reported, “A mountain village in the Himalayan region of Nepal, Ghandruk (also known…
Read More »Provinces to oversee functions of tourism
Kathmandu: All tourism departments of seven provincial governments are to function actively with effect from 18 September 2019 to oversee the tourism-related promotional activities in their respective provinces. It became possible and inevitable after the Nepal government’s Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (Tourism department) formally handed over the…
Read More »Dashain, Tihar and Chhath festival tour packages
Prem Baniya As Nepali almanac heralds the days of national gala making festivities such as Dashain, Tihar, and Chhath, the tour operators are hurriedly preparing to design their special tour packages to target both the domestic and international tourists. These festivals allow many people to plan to go on long…
Read More »Tourism Minister Yogesh Bhattarai unveils top priority based activities for one year
Kathmandu: The Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Bhattarai Monday unveiled the government’s one year top priority based activities related to the tourism sector to boost up the visit year 2020. Addressing a gathering of assistant Ministers, government officials and staff in Kathmandu, Minister Bhattarai briefed about the…
Read More »Dolpo tourism festival in the offing
Organizers have come to the capital to invite everybody for the ‘Dolpo Tourism Festival’ which is going to be held at Dho Tarap in Upper Dolpa from 10th to 14th of September. The festival is set to be hosted with the slogan of ‘Darshan Dolpoko, Aarjan Shantiko’ to promote tourism.…
Read More »Ambir Gurung elected to lead GTEAN
Ambir Gurung is the new leader of Gurung Tourism Entrepreneurs Association Nepal (GTEAN) who has been elected as new president from the second General Convention of GTEAN held in Kathmandu on Saturday. Ishwar Gurung, Pitambar Gurung is elected as the first and second Vice-Chairmen respectively, while Kishan Gurung is elected…
Read More »Bhujung tourism festival to be hosted
A Gurung village of Lambjung-Bhujung is all set to host a tourism festival to promote tourism, to expose Bhujung to the outside world. It was informed at a press meet held at Lamjung Besi Thursday that the Bhujung tourism festival will be hosted from 30 September 2019 to 2 October…
Read More »Traditional healing practitioners (Amjis) unhappy about govt. apathy
The traditional healing practitioners (Amjis) of the Himali region at a program expressed their utter dissatisfaction about state apathy towards their profession of using traditional healing methods in providing medical services to their patients in the country. They complained that they were being deprived of government jobs by denying them…
Read More »Krishanajanamaasthami being observed in Nepal.
Hindu God “Krishna” was born today. So, this day is being observed as Krishanjanmaasthami by Hindus across Nepal. The day is also marked as the victory of good over evil. In other words, it is described as the victory of truth over evil. Hindu epics are galore with the examples…
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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 …
