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Lack of aviation infrastructure continues to hurt Nepal’s tourist arrivals, which could hit a three-million mark if the country gets a new international airport and cuts down its overdependence on Kathmandu airport . The country’s only international gateway currently handles 4.5 million travellers a year. The figure stood at 4.28 million in 2011. Though Tribhuvan...Read More

Ministries and stakeholders have started discussions on the Environment Friendly Local Governance Framework 2013, which the Cabinet approved on October 9, in a bid to implement it in all local bodies from the current fiscal. Officials of the National Planning Commission, Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (MoFALD), Ministry of Science‚ Technology and Environment‚...Read More

Diplomatic missions and cultural institutions of the European Union (EU) based in Kathmandu and Delhi are organising a four-day ‘European Union Film Festival’ at the QFX Kumari Hall-2 at Kamal Pokhari from 20 to 23 Feb, 2014 under the theme ‘Celebrating Women’. As the theme suggests, the movies are based on the life of European...Read More

“People coming out and dancing at an event is also tourism. An event is counted as tourism. But we have a conventional concept that tourism means foreigners travelling,” said Subash Nirola, Acting CEO of Nepal Tourism Board (NTB). But he sees a challenge — “to bring people out of their houses”. Confronting the challenge, Nirola...Read More

Though by a sheer chance, Chhattisgarh is now part of India’s multi-crore rupee medical tourism industry, as last week the Bhilai based Apollo BSR Hospital conducted the first ever surgery on a man who had come here for treatment from Ukraine. Volodymgr Andrig Kravchenko, a 58-year-old techinical advisor, was operated upon on Thursday last for...Read More