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Nepal needs effective promotional activities to boost tourism

Professor Kaye Chon is the dean of School of Hotel and Tourism Management, Hong Kong. Kaye, who recently visited Nepal to address the 38th Annual General Meeting of Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Nepal Chapter, talked to Sujan Dhungana of Republica on the prospects and challenges of tourism sector in ...

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Guerrilla trekking, development stirrings in Rolpa

Rolpa remained virtually cut off from the rest of the country until 1996, the year the then Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) launched an armed insurgency that lasted over a decade. The unitary government’s centralized approach to development took a huge toll on socioeconomic life of the people of the ...

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More tourists visiting Nepal for mountain biking

The number of tourists coming to Nepal for mountain biking has tripled over the last three years. Ranjan Rajbhandari, director of Nepal Mountain Bike Tours, said the number of foreigners as well as Nepalis preferring mountain biking has shot up mainly because of increasing public consciousness about health and shortening ...

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Mount Everest as you’ve never seen it before: Stunning images revealed as researchers begin work on first 3D model of the world’s highest peak

he motorised glider was flown by pilots Klaus Ohlmann and Jona Keimer 3D cameras captured the flight as it travelled over Mount Everest’s summit Footage will be used to build a 3D model of the Nepalese mountain with a resolution down to 15 centimetres  This model will help improve forecasts ...

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Weather & Temperature during Everest Base Camp Trek

  Each trekking trip up the grand Mt. Everest nearby its own incredible, memorable moment that everlastingly live on in the hearts and minds of those daring enough to make the mount. One of the most impulsive essentials of the Everest region is the weather. If you’re not suitably geared ...

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