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16 June Post by: Nepal

Visit to Nepal 2020

Visit to Nepal

After the success of Visit Nepal Year 1998 and Nepal Tourism Year 2011, the Tourism Board of Nepal introduced Visit Nepal Campaign 2020. The Campaign was announced in 2015 to be held in 2018 but was later postponed to 2020. The mainstream media publicized Nepal as utterly devastated by the earthquake in 2015 and failed to show that Kathmandu with other major cities was almost intact. The earthquake significantly affected the inflow of tourists in 2016 as the number of tourists halved compared with previous year.The year 2017 saw the inflow of tourists bounce back to the pre-earthquake numbers.  The year 2017 saw 940,218 foreigners enter the country. Some came for recreational activities while some visited to support the people of affected areas and with the motive to help the country economically by visiting Nepal.

As the government has set a target to bring in two million tourists each year by 2020, the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA) has planned to organise ‘Visit Nepal Year’ in 2020 to attract more tourists to the country. Unveiling the action plan of the ministry for the next two months, Tourism Minister Jitendra Narayan Dev said that the ministry will establish a secretariat for the Visit Nepal Year shortly to make necessary preparations. The Himalayan country had targeted to attract two million foreign tourists in 2020 during the Visit Nepal Year, almost double of the number of foreign tourists it received in 2019. BUT KATHMANDU, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Nepali government has decided to cancel the Visit Nepal Year-2020 campaign as international travels have been badly affected due to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a senior official of Nepal's Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation said Tuesday.

Of course it is possible to combine the various treks, just contact us for further information. Come and join us for a life changing experience – with Himalayan Unforgettable Adventure!