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'Nepal conducive for tourism activities'Monday - 25th April 2005 |
| By A Staff Reporter , KATHMANDU, Apr. 25: Foreign journalists have continued to visit Nepal at the invitation of the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) and other organizations to be familiar with Nepal’s tourism products as well as the security situation. A team of four journalists from Britain was here on a familiarization tour from April 16 to 25. The familiarization tour was organized by Hotel Association Nepal (HAN), in close collaboration with NTB. During their stay in Nepal, they visited various major tourism destinations and received first hand information about the tourism potential and the existing safety and security situations. According to NTB, most of them have realised that the overall security situation of Nepal is conducive enough to run any type of tourism activities within the major tourism destinations. Tek Bahadur Dangi, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NTB, Prakash Shrestha, First Vice-President of HAN, Raja Ram Giri, General Secretary of Friends of Britain and Nepal, highlighted the constraints faced by the Nepalese tourism industry. They also requested the visiting journalists to disseminate the facts that they have seen in Nepal. The journalists visited Kathmandu, Nagarkot, Pokhara and Chitwan during their stay. They were Paul Blaney, News Reporter, Travel Weekly, Geoff Maynard, Assistant News Editor, Daily Express, Ms. Elizabeth Davies, Reporter, The Independent and Nick Henegan, International News reporter, Daily Mirror. The visiting journalists also interacted with the officials of NTB and HAN. Earlier, NTB invited 8 journalists from Mumbai, 5 from Bangalore, 10 from Delhi, 5 from China, 2 from Hong Kong and 1 from Thailand in the month of March and April, 2005 for familiarization tours. |
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