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Peace in Nepal opens tourist floodgatesWednesday - 13th June 2007 |
| Tourism arrivals to Nepal have shot up nearly 45 per cent since Maoist rebels stopped fighting at the end of 2006. The Tourism Board says the last five months have shown encouraging signs of growth and foreign visitors arriving by air between January and May rose more than 40 percent to 143,000 compared with the same period last year. It expects record numbers of tourist arrivals this year if the current trend continues. Nepal's Maoists and an interim government signed a landmark peace deal in November 2006, ending a war which claimed at least 13,000 lives. Nepal was shunned by international tour groups last year when three weeks of nationwide protests in April led to King Gyanendra ending a much criticised 14-month period of direct rule. |
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