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A passenger plane on way to Lukla, with 14 people on board crashed on Makwanpur's Shikarpur VDC. Due to bad weather the plane couldn't land on Lukla airport and was returning to Kathmandu. There were 3 crew members along with 11 passengers which of 6 were foreigners. According to report, body of plane is totally damaged and there were no survivors. The crash site is at ... Full story

International Regional Seminar of Small & Medium Accommodation Providers (SMAPs) was organized on August 19. Hotel Association Nepal (HAN), International School of Tourism & Hotel Management (IST), Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA), Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management (ITH), Sri Lankan Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management (SLITHM) and Salzburg University, Austria, all took part in the function. European Union’s (EU) Asia Invest plan ... Full story

A 28 yr old Japanese resident Nobukazu Kuriki is trying to ascent Mt. Everest alone without oxygen this autumn. Kuriki said, “It’s been around 40 yrs since a Japanese has climbed Mt Everest.” Kuriki has already ascended three mountains above 8,000 meters heights. They are Mt Cho Oyu in 2007, Mt Manaslu in 2008, and Mt Dhaulagiri in 2009. Among the 7 peaks, Kuriki has ascended 6 ... Full story

There will be many promotions and initiatives being started in close future as part of the Nepal Tourism Year (NTY) 2011 program, which is schemed to embolden voyagers to visit the country. All of the country’s main political leaders, business people and Industrialist’s have explicited their obligation to stamp 2011 a peaceful year in order to greet as many travelers as possible. Many new religious and cultural ... Full story

The Bhaktapur Municipality has made a decision to enhance tourism fee just ahead of Nepal Tourism Year while other tourism places of the countries have presented various packages to draw more tourists during the campaign. The municipality made the decision to enhance entrance fee for tourists entering the municipality area by 100% from January. In accordance to Mr. Gautam Lasiba, Chief of tourism center, the latest ... Full story

Nepal Tourism Year 2011 is giving all needed impulse to the country’s hotel industry. Hotels, which were shutdown, are being reopened. Their criteria’s are being revisited to please the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoTCA) directives. recent hotels’ registration is up in expectation of a boom time. And, overseas investments in the hotel sector are standing out at a time when the economy has ... Full story

Canadian explorers say that, they think they've fixed a historic debate about the 1st men to capture the peak of Mt. Everest in the Himalayas. Britain's Daily Telegraph stated that, one of mountaineering's much furiously debated dispute is whether Britons George Mallory and Andrew Irvine were the 1st people to attain the peak when they endeavored the ascend in 1924. Explorers say that, they now think the ... Full story

Nepali professionals, community members and students of the Washington-Metropolitan region arranged a Nepal Tourism Year 2011 (NTY-2011) promotion campaign on Sunday, August 15, 2010 at the National Mall, Washington, DC. The National Mall is the main tourist attraction place enclose by the US Capitol, Washington Monument and different museums. There were 20 volunteers who assisted to promote NTY-2011 by giving out booklets to the coming guests ... Full story

Dr. Jagadish Chandra Pokharel, Chairman of the National Planning Commission (NPC) exposed a particular project which is on anvil to make the Nepal Tourism Year 2011 a triumph, in accordance to media sources. He also notified that NPC is making a project by embracing Nepal’s historical, religious, cultural and tourist aspects to make the tourism crusade a triumph. In accordance to him, NPC has set preference to ... Full story

A particular operating project has been formulated to make "Nepal Day" at the Shanghai Expo efficient. Nepal Day will be noted at the Nepal Pavilion of the Expo on September 3. published a press release on last Thursday, Ministry of Information and Communications told that the day will be noted in coordination with Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Information and Communications, Commerce ... Full story