The Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) plans to tie up with Goa’s tourism players to swap foreign tourist arrivals at both locations, senior officials said. The Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) and NTB officials are currently in Goa for a business-to-business (B2B) conference with Goa tourism players to ...

The government is all set to open around 70 new peaks by 2014. A technical team, formed under the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA), is preparing to recommend names of around 70 new peaks for final approval from the Cabinet. The technical team, till date, has made ...

The figures released by Immigration Office, Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) reveal that visitor arrivals in the month of July 2013, compared to the same month last year, have increased by 0.28% to 38,560. The arrivals from South Asian region have shown mixed performance. The arrivals from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka ...

Nepal’s Tourism Ministry on Friday said it plans to exercise tighter control of climbers scaling Mount Everest to make sure they keep the world’s highest peak clean and to prevent rows. The ministry will set up a 10-member team made up of government officials, veteran Nepalese climbers and security officers ...

The UN’s cultural body has voiced alarm at the building of a giant crematorium within the Pashupatinath temple area in Kathmandu, worried it will become an eyesore at one of the world’s holiest Hindu sites. The Pashupatinath temple complex, which sprawls over a 2.6 square-km area on the banks of ...