Nepal Tourism Board has formally launched its ‘Visit Nepal 2020’ campaign in Mumbai during the third leg of its four-city roadshow in India and interacted with key outbound agents here. NTB has come up with an ambitious plan to increase the inflow of Indian tourists to Nepal by 30 percent between 2019-20.
The special tourism campaign is organized to draw 2 million visitors to Nepal, especially Indians.
“India is very close to us and to me personally. It is a major market for us and we have seen a steady increase in Indian tourist arrivals since 2015 after Nepal experienced a major setback. We are now back to normal and request the travel trade in India to help us regain our lost glory in terms of tourism,” said Robin Regmi, Officer – South Asia Unit, Tourism Marketing and Promotion, Nepal Tourism Board.
“The tourism board is now actively looking at organising big sporting and Mice events as well as festivals to draw in the numbers. Among them is the Nepal Tourism investment Summit to be organised in January 2020. The team will travel to Bengaluru for a similar launch on July 15, 2019,” he added.
Nepal also has plans to initiate operations in two international airports in Lumbini and Pokhara and introduce 100 unexplored destinations in the year 2020. He added that the private hotel sector plans to add 4,000 rooms to hotels under the four and five-star categories in Kathmandu, Pokhara and Chitwan.
