TG stays with Nepal service
February 24, 2010 by Rapeepat Mantanarat
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Thai Airways International’s Nepal services are back in a revised summer schedule, but frequency will be reduced to daily. The Bangkok-Kathmandu route was suspended from the summer timetable, along with Kuwait and the seasonal, Gaya and Varanasi service.
However, behind the scenes, the management had a change of heart, almost within days of making the decision to axe one of the airlines oldest and most successful regional routes.
Pata on a zero waste trip
Nepal is set to witness a five-fold growth in adventure tourism over the next three years, claims UK-based Exodus Travel’s managing director, Peter Burrell who was attending the Pata Adventure Travel and Responsible Tourism Conference in Kathmandu, earlier this week.
While offering an encouraging forecast, that particularly pleased Nepalese companies, attending the event, he stopped short of providing any numbers or explanation on how airlines would cope with such a dramatic improvement in traffic.
Nepal hopes to double arrivals by 2011
September 2, 2009 by TTRweekly Staff
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Nepal Tourism Board announced , yesterday, it will host Nepal Tourism Year in 2011, targeting at least 1 million international visitors.
Introduced at a press briefing, 1 September, Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation, Sharat Singha Bhandari, said he hoped the special year would help the country to lift arrivals from the current 500,000 to 1 million.
He was leading a team of Nepalese travel executives on a regional sales mission to promote the tourism year. The team will travel to Beijing and Hong Kong later this week.
