Tourism Activities

As a result of all these promotional activities, there is a great deal of optimism among representatives of various political parties, tourism entrepreneurs the public and members of the civil society that mire tourists will come if conditions were made favorable. Accordingly, Nepal Tourism year,2011 has come into effect with the sligan Together for Tourism since the beginning of this year, although the formal kick off of this campaign started only from January 14 at the central level.
About 60 percnt of this bugets has been allocated for tourism promotion through such international media as BBC,CNN,CHINESE and INDIAN T.V. channels. Because Indai and Chaina are our proximate neighbours, most of the tourist who come to visit our country are most likely to be Indain and Chinese.Because they are volume producing countries, Rupees 60 millinons have been set aside for publicity stunts,India,Rupees 30 millions in China and the rest in Srilanka,Thailand and other countriess of the world.
The specific target set during this year is to attract 265000 tourist from India and one lakh from China.One of the main objective of Nepal tourism year 2011 so to promote those tourist destination that have not been promoted thus far.

Most of the tourists coming to Nepal have been visiting Kathmandu, Pokhara and Chitwan as a triangular tourist destination. The Government of Nepal adrategic master plan from this year to develop another triangular tourist destination that connects pokhara to Limbini and Janakpur. The strategic plan to develop Lumbini and Janakpur in addition to pokhara is undoubtedly a step in the right direction to promote our cultural landscape .