Mr. Birendra Singh, Director of MoTCA said, “Thenceforth the country is commemorating 2011 as Nepal Tourism Year 2011 (NTY-2011), we have to improve some of the airports, where there is an overrun of tourist traffic.”
He said, “Improving of these airports can also support airlines to fly to nearby cities over the border, it would support accomplish the goal of one-million tourists in 2011.”

He added, “If the government simplifies the airlines to fly in the country by improving the airports and out of the country with appropriate Air Service Agreements (ASA), the state’s NTY-2011 crusade could be prosperous.”

MoTCA said, “In accordance to the recent two-sided ASA signed between Kathmandu and New Delhi, the previous seats per week has been extended to one-way 30,000 seats per week connecting New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Bangalore, with the recent contract in place, air seats have raised by five times and this will surely promote Indian tourist arrival.”

MoTCA added, “In the spirit of the SAARC Charter, Nepal has got the privilege to operate air services with indefinite seats to 21points in India — Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Aurangabad, Bhubaneswar, Kalikot, Cochin, Gaya, Goa, Guwahati, Jaipur, Khajuraho, Lucknow, Patna, Port Blair, Thiruananthapuram, Tiruchirapalli, Banaras, Visakhapatnam and three more points Bagdogra, Deharadun and Gorakhpur.”

Nepal also gets the privilege to function any of the destinations in the SAARC region from these points with limitless seat by the designated airlines.

Previously, Nepal used to function air services to seven points in India but presently it is extended to 27 points.

In accordance to MoTCA, it will surely support in the arrival of Indian tourist flow.

The Female climbers also made a performance on effect of climate alternation in Nepal Himalayas, concordant to the report.

Mr. Devendra Thapa, Information officer of Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP) said, “The visiting number of visitors has increased from last year by more than 4,000.”

Mr. Thapa said, since the volume of visitor arrivals has coherently grown but the rate of growth has decelerated over the last 3 years, so this is a matter of concern for all of us.

In accordance to ACAP the amount of visitors visiting the region enhanced by 5.3% in 2009/10, while the rate of enhancement in the last financial year was 16% and the year before was 30%.

ACAP’s officer stated that the area had met a sharp increment in arrivals for the last 3 years importantly after the Maoists joined political mainstream and the positive effect of the onset of peace procedure.

“The peace procedure rejuvenated businessman, visitors and the industry alike,” said Mr. Thapa.

However, inconstancy and strike’s decreased peace procedure and it again started to drive away the visitors in the recent years. In 2009/10, the area met a considerable fall in the coming of South Asian visitors.

In accordance to ACAP information, the area obtained just 7,901visitors from the SAARC region, down from 8,735 registered a year earlier. In 2007/8, the amount of South Asian visitors visiting Annapurna area was fine over 16,000. Similarly, the coming of visitors from other countries in 2009/10 summed to 72,065, up from 67,190 registered in 2008/09.

Mr. Thapa said, “As the amount of visitors is ascending each year, we can say the area is implementing still well.”

Earlier the disagreement began in the country; the area was obtaining well around 75,000 visitors each year. Anyway, arrivals in the area decreased to just 36,000 in 2005.

Annapurna Conservation Area, which envelops mountainous districts like Manang and Mustang, has been a famous destination for tourists from Britain, Israel, South Korea, China, Germany, US, France and Japan.

In accordance to conservative evaluation, about 30% of whole tourists visiting the country travel to the Annapurna region.

MoTCA has suggested the government of Nepal to abandon visa fee at least for the campaign time in order to draw more foreign tourists to the country and make Nepal Tourism Year 2011 campaign a huge accomplishment.

Since, more than half a million foreign tourists had arrived Nepal in 2009, so the country has aimed a goal to greeting more than one million foreign tourists in 2011.

The motion have been send to Ministry of Finance to include it in the budget for fiscal year 2010/11 said, Mr. Laxman Bhattarai, Spokesperson and Joint Secretary of MoTCA.

He notified that the motion to present free-visa regime was worked out by the Nepal Tourism Year 2011 National Coordination Committee.

Recently, visitors from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation countries get visa free of cost whereas foreign visitors need to pay 25 U.S. dollars for visa for 15 days and 40 dollars for a month.

Nepal Visa Rules

Canyoning entangles abseiling, climbing, jumping, swimming and sliding down steep canyon walls and waterfalls to deep pools below through close passages of twisted rock and powerful blasts of water.

Mr. Lal Kumar Shrestha, while opening canyoning, member of Nepal Tourism Board and chairman of Bimalnagar Siddha Cave Development Committee said, “Such a game gives much amusement and fun”.

Mr. Birendra Thapa, Police Inspector of Area Police Office, Aabukhaireni said, “Canyoning will help promote tourism in the western region.”

On the opening ceremony of canyoning, along with journalists, local people and security personnel participated.

Secretary of MoTCA, Mr. Kishore Thapa said, “The home stay idea has been started with a working policy of five years, the rule for home stay would be concluded only after 5-10 years.

Spokesperson of MoTCA, Mr. Laxman Bhattarai said, “The operating policy of home stay will be efficient from August 17, 2010, for Nepal, home stay is a new tourism idea that supplies economical adjustment to foreign tourists.

The prime aim of home stay is to enhance rural people’s participation in the tourism sector. It will also aid self employment possibilities to increase in rural areas. In behold of upcoming year, long crusade Nepal Tourism Year (NTY) 2011, the government has validated the home stay idea for Nepal.

For catering to tourists in the utmost season comprising the extra flow of tourists as part of NTY 2011, the government agencies are creating awareness and giving training in home stay to the rural population.

Under the home stay idea, anybody who has a home with at least 4 rooms can use the empty rooms for tourists’ home stay. The household should be able to give a taste of the local culture and food. As per the government rules for home stay, any house owner who would like to function home stay at his home should register at the Local Home stay Management Committee. The house owner must be able to give hygienic and well facilitated rooms and services.

A home stay is a cultural exchange in which a person visiting or temporarily staying in another country lives with a family in the host country. There are home stays for short periods (one night or a weekend) and for longer periods.

Marking a note of understanding, the two organizations also consented to solve all the difficulties bothering the tourism industry.

According to the consent, HRA has been consigned with the duty of operating shuttle bus service from Tribhuvan International Airport to various places in Kathmandu Valley during deprecation, Bandas and other forms of walkouts. Before, NTB used to run shuttle bus service.

HRA, which has been entangled in coordinating saving actions in mountain areas, will setup and work TCC´s secretariat at its office building in Lazimpat. The cell can be communicated round the clock through 4442555 and 9751044088 lines.

Mr. Bikram Neupane, President of HRA, after marking the consent said, “We will amuse calls made at lines round the clock and we will continue to extend our areas of interest in order to safeguard convenient stay for foreign visitors.”

Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal (TAAN), Hotel Association of Nepal (HAN), Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA), PATA Nepal Chapter and Nepal Association of Tour Operators (NATO) are members of the cell.

Mr. Prachanda Man Shrestha, CEO of NTB said, “The cell would pine with any difficulties that the tourists will witness at any part of the country.

Agents of travel trade union explicated their obligations to endure the effort of the cell.