TOURISM NEWS Visitors Arrival in February 2008 The arrival figures released by Immigration Office, TIA indicate that visitors' arrivals to Nepal in February 2008 reached 30,041, up by 17 percent compared to the same month last year. more.. Visitors Arrival in January 2008 The beginning of the New Year 2008 has heralded an optimistic tourism growth in Nepal in 2008. The data released by Immigration Office, TIA shows that arrivals in January has grown by 12.9 %, up by 2985 compared to the same month last year. more.. Visitors Arrival in December 2007 December 2007 registered a growth of 13 % in the international visitor's arrival to Nepal by air route. The total visitor arrivals reached 29895, up by 3433 compared to the same month last year, according to the data released by Immigration Office Tribhuvan International Airport. A growth of 25 % has been recorded in the visitor arrivals from Europe, US and other non-Indian Asian tourist generating countries while Indian arrivals has been fallen down by 8.5% during this month. more.. Visitors Arrival in November 2007; November Resgisters 17.6 % Growth The visitor arrivals data released by Immigration Office, Tribhuvan International Airport shows that the total number of visitors in November has reached to 34580, up by 17.6 percent compared to the same month last year. more.. Visitors Arrival in October 2007 (by air only); Steady growth in tourist arrival continues The visitors' arrival data released by Immigration Office, Tribhuvan International Airports for the month of October 2007 shows the healthy growth of 18 percent, up by 6617 compared to the corresponding month of last year. more.. Visitors Arrival in September 2007 (by air only); Market Watches Healthy Growth The visitors' arrival data released by Immigration Office, Tribhuvan International Airports for the month of September 2007 shows the healthy growth of 27 percent, up by 6847 compared to the corresponding month of last year. The American and European markets have registered a robust growth of 33.1 percent and 38.5 percent respectively, followed by a significant growth in major tourist generating markets. more.. Visitors Arrival in August 2007 (by air only); August Records 18 % Growth in tourist arrivals The total visitor arrivals in August 2007 reached 26865, up by 4052 compared to the same month last year, according to the data released by Immigration Office Tribhuvan International Airport. European market registered a healthy growth of 36 %. in July and August. more.. Visitors Arrival in July 2007 (by air only); Market watches steady growth in arrivals The total visitor arrival figures in July 2007 grew by 25 percent culminating the figure to 26078, according to the data released by TIA, Office. The European market as a whole has shown a healthy growth of 45 percent with encouraging figures from major tourist generating individual countries. The UK market with the largest share of the total European arrivals has increased by 30.8 percent. Germany (33.4%), France (65.7%), Spain (65.8%), Netherlands (21.6%) and Belgium (75.1%) also registered very healthy growth this month compared to the corresponding month of last year. more.. Visitors Arrival in June 2007 (by air only); Arrival growth continues The arrival figure released by Immigration Office, TIA has shown that visitor arrivals to Nepal increased by 9.6 % with total 23502 visitors in June 2007. The European market has recorded a strong increase by 39 %, keeping on the ascending trend of arrivals from this segment in each month of this year. more.. Visitors Arrival in May 2007 (by air only) The increasing trend in international visitors’ arrival figure to Nepal is also being maintained in the month of May, 2007. Month of May witnessed 49.6% growth compared to previous year’s corresponding month. A total of 27,759 visitors entered Nepal during this month. more.. No higher place to go than Everest KATHMANDU, May 28 - The three-page "brief curriculum vitae" of Dr Pavel Bem, posted on his personal website, surprisingly misses one of his most important achievements: being atop Mt Everest. more.. Nepal Travel and Tourism 2007 Organised at the Nepalese Embassy London Nepal Travel and Tourism Meet was organised by Friends of Britain and Nepal, Nepal Tourism Organisation (FBNNTO) UK at the Embassy of Nepal on 24th May 2007. The meet was organised to inform the British public the latest political development in Nepal. more.. Mom of 5-month-old atop Everest Just three months after giving birth to her first child she set off to scale Mt Everest. Five months later and yet to fully recover from childbearing, Janet Belarmino, 28, has already conquered the world's highest mountain. more.. Success for Everest mobile effort A British climber has set a world record by making a mobile phone call from the top of Mount Everest. In the early hours of 21 May, Rod Baber made two calls from the mountain's north ridge. more.. Appa breaks his own record by scaling Everest for 17th time Appa Sherpa, veteran mountaineer, scaled the roof of the world, Mount Everest, for record 17th time on Wednesday, breaking his own record. more.. Karnali via Road The New Year 2064 brought unprecedented happiness and joys to the people of Karnali Region. On 30th of Chaitra 2064 (13th April 2007) a convoy of light vehicles, carrying vice-chairman of National Planning Commission (NPC) and other government officials, reached Khalanga, district head quarters of Jumla district for the first time amidst eager enthusiasm and anticipation of local people. more.. Visitors Arrival in April 2007 (by air only) The positive trend in international visitors’ arrival figure to Nepal continues on a sharp upward curve with a staggering growth of 78.8% for the month of April 2007. 33,024 visitors came to Nepal during the period, which is a record high for the number of international visitors entering Nepal by air route in the month of April since 2002. more.. Trekking to pick up in Karnali As national road network connects Jumla, headquarters of the isolated Karnali Zone, tapping tourism potential in the mountainous region seems to be inching towards a reality. more.. High Altitude Eye Study As part of the Neuroscience work we are carrying out the most extensive high altitude eye study. The eye is really an extension of the brain and hence it is a very useful window for us to look at to give us an idea of what might be going on behind it. more.. Spring on full bloom Nepalese people wouldn’t have expected a better new year than this. Precisely one year back, they were shedding their bloods, braving batons and bullets and surviving brutal suppression of their peaceful movement against the totalitarian regime imposed by King Gyanendra. more.. Visitors Arrival in March 2007 (by air only) Visitors arriving by air route to Nepal during March 2007 witnessed another encouraging upsurge with 33.5% growth registered during the month compared to the last March. more.. Nepal participates MITT, enchants Russian visitors The 14th Moscow International Travel and Tourist Exhibition ( MITT) successfully ended on March 24, 2007 in Expocentr at Krasnaya Presnya, Moscow Russia with more than 40 thousand visitors inquiring about packages and discounts offered by different tour operators offering various destinations. Started from March 21, it was organized by the renowned Russian exhibition business company , The ITE. more.. Nepal participates in Sales Mission in France, Belgium & ITB 2007 Nepal Tourism Board organised Sales Mission in Paris and Brussels on the 5th and 6th March 2007 respectively in order to promote Nepalese tourism in Europe after the restoration of the peace in the country. Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism & Civil Aviation and Chairman of Nepal Tourism Board Mr. Madhav P. Ghimire led the Nepal delegation in both places. more.. Nepal Tourism Board Organised Sales Mission in China In its bid to aggressively promote Nepal in the booming Chinese outbound tourism market, Nepal Tourism Board organized a Sales Mission in Chengdu, Shanghai and Beijing between March 19 and 27 , 2007 in a close association with Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation and Air China. more.. back   about thisisnepal.com | advertise with us | legal | contacts us copyright www.thisisnepal.com. All rights reserved.