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The government has decided to invest around Rs 1 billion for the construction of a biodiversity park and other infrastructures at Raniban, a forest that surrounds Phewa Lake in Pokhara. According to Dil Bahadur Chhetri, assistant research officer at the Department of Plant Resources (DPR), the government´s plan to convert ...

A tourism information centre has been established in Kirtipur, at the initiative of the Kiritpur Guides Association. The centre has been established with the objective of contributing to the touristic development of Kiritpur and giving necessary information to visiting tourists. CA member Rajan KC inaugurated the centre amid a function ...

In Nepal, according to a study, tourist arrivals via air in Nepal in fiscal 2012-13 dropped a marginal 1.4 percent to 586,668, largely due to a significant dip in arrivals from a southern neighbor. Indian arrivals to Nepal via air transport dropped 15.1 percent in the last fiscal year. However, ...

An esteemed newspaper of the US, The New York Times , has ranked Nepal 45th place among 52 ‘ must visit places’ of the world for 2014. In its Travel page, the newspaper, under the title ‘New peaks open up for alpine adventures’, has mentioned that Nepal is the home to eight of ...

Tourism Board (NTB) is organizing third Eastern Regional Tourism Fair 2014 in Damak of Jhapa district from Thursday. The three-day event aims to promote domestic tourism and encourage cross-regional tourism activities in the country, according to a press statement issued by NTB on Tuesday. According to NTB, 39 organizations from ...