Tourism News

Kathmandu: A seven-member delegation team from Nepal led by Suresh Acharya has reached Beijing to initiate talks with the Chinese counterparts to revise the bilateral air services agreement between Nepal and China. According to the bilateral agreement reached and signed between Nepal and China on 25 February 2014, both the…

Kathmandu: Interest amount for the credit loan taken for buying the wide body airbus 3300 has been added to the capital amount after Nepal Airlines (NA) failed to repay the  installment within the stipulated time. NA failure to pay installment amount results owing to two grounded wide body airbuses 3300…

Kathmandu: Nepal’s leading air Service Company Buddha Airlines carried on board 14,4,826 passengers in one year from July 2018 to June 2019, which includes domestic as well as international flights. Buddha air surpassed its last year’s record by carrying 1,71,813 more passengers this year. Last year Buddha had carried 12,76,615…

The Secretariat for a national campaign- ‘Nepal Visit Year 2020’- is mulling over holding a Tourism Investment Summit by February 2020 to bolster the tourism sector in Nepal. According to Suraj Vaidya, the coordinator for Visit Nepal 2020, the date for the summit has not yet been fixed. However, the…

Kathmandu: Nepal Visit Year secretariat felicitated British hockey team for playing hockey at a higher altitude and creating a world record. The national coordinator for the ‘Visit Year 2020’ campaign, Suraj Vaidya gave away the Nepali cap and logo of the visit year to the hockey team members while felicitating…

Nepal has seen a sudden growth of international tourist’s arrivals from Thailand, China, and Germany in the last six months of the year 2019 as compared to the same period in 2018. According to a press statement of Nepal Tourism Board, 85,318 Chinese visited Nepal in the first half of…

Dolpo village Kathmandu: Dolpo festival is to kick-off from 10-14 September 2019, to highlight the hidden topography of Dolpa, its cultures, heritages, and promote the government’s declared national program- Nepal Visit Year 2020. Dolpa (Dolpo) elevated at a height of 1525 meters to 7625 meters above sea level, has a…

Juddha Gurung Kathmandu: Gandaki provincial government’s recently appointed coordinator for Gandaki tourism year Mr. Juddha Bahadur Gurung said that ‘nature and culture’ based tourism to promote local products will be bolstered in the upcoming visit years. The Gandaki provincial government had appointed Gurung to head the internal visit year 2019,…

Yeti aircraft Kathmandu: An aircraft belonging to Yeti Airlines veered off the main runway at the Tribhuvan International Airport Friday while landing with 66 passengers on board. The yeti aircraft skidded off to the taxiway, which is 20 meters far from the runway. The aircraft NYT-422 (9N-AMM) was coming from…

Kathmandu: Five-star hotel Everest International Limited is all set to re-open after a long interval of closure due to internal management conflict among the board of directors, in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in 2015. A 15-day notice to the hotel staff has been circulated to return to the…