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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 ...

Tourists from Norway were the longest stayers in Nepal last year, spending an average of 25.49 days in the country. According to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Nepal received 3,280 Norwegian tourists in 2012, among whom 2,369 were first time visitors. Their length of stay increased by ...

The number of wild tigers living in Nepal has increased by 63% to 198 since 2009, a government survey has shown. The survey, which was carried out between February and June, assessed the Bengal tiger population across a 600-mile stretch in Nepal and India. It found numbers had increased in ...