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Nepal had already celebrated two tourism promotion campaign. Nepal had successfully celebrated “Visit Nepal Year 1998”. Likewise, after twelve years Nepal successfully celebrated “Nepal Tourism Year 2011”. Both were a great success. Nepal Tourism Board announced the campaign in 2015, and it was supposed to be held on 2018 however, it got postponed for 2020.
With the series of earthquakes in Nepal, the tourism industry of the nation was heavily affected. The mainstream media promulgated Nepal as totally desolated by the earthquake in 2015. The earthquake considerably affected the influx of tourists in 2015 and 2016 as the numbers of tourists halved in comparison to the previous years.
The campaign was scheduled in 2018 to push that Nepal was a secure place to travel and solely twelve of seventy-five (Now 77) districts were laid low with the earthquake. However, with the leisurely upgrading activity of Tribhuvan International Airport. Likewise, Bhairahawa Airport which was planned to be upgraded to international standards as Gautam Buddha International Airport got delayed. Hence, due to improper infrastructure distribution, Nepal Tourism Board postponed the campaign to 2020.
in 2017, after two years of the deadly earthquake, Nepal finally got back on its feet. The year 2018 reigned in positives for Nepali tourism, Nepal witnessed substantial growth in the number of tourists to the nation.
According to the National Tourism Board (NTB), the number of foreign tourists visiting Nepal in 2017 was 940,218 and 1,173,072 in 2018. Similarly, the total tourist arrivals in January 2018 was 73,178.
Follow the link for the detailed information regarding the tourist arrival statistics in Nepal in 2017 and 2018.
http://tourism.gov.np/files/statistics/2.pdf
http://tourism.gov.np/files/statistics/19.pdf
Nepal Government had allocated five hundred millions rupees for 100 different tourist destination to make visit Nepal 2020 campaign a great success. Although, the recent development in the tourism of nation seems to be encouraging, yet a lot of kinds of stuff are to be done by the authorities concerned to tap into the full potential of the Tourism sector and meet the objectives of the much-hyped Visit Nepal 2020 campaign.
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