Home Sweet Home: Nepal Launches 'Travel Year' to Promote Domestic Tourism

Nepal announced a new campaign called "Travel Year" to promote internal tourism as the country's industry has been struggling to recover from last year's earthquake and subsequent blockade along the southern border.

It has been announced that "Ghumphir Barsa", which means "Travel Year", will begin and cover the entire Nepali year of 2073, beginning on April 13, in a bid to promote domestic tourism, according to the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB). The initiative is a part of the government's preparations to organize its International Tourism Year during 2017-18.

"At a time when the number of foreign tourists visiting Nepal has decreased since the last year's earthquake, the promotion of internal tourism makes sense," said Deepak Raj Joshi, CEO of the NTB.

Let's do a commitment to visit a new place in new year 2073 to promote domestic tourism. #ghumphir2073

Фото опубликовано Lumbini Tourism (@lumbinitourism) Апр 11 2016 в 5:01 PDT

It is the first time that the Himalayan country has launched a program to promote domestic tourism. Earlier, Nepal had implemented "Visit Nepal 1998" and "Nepal Tourism Year 2011" targeting international visitors.

Inaugural function of launching of launching of Ghumphir Year 2073(Domestic Travel Year) at Nepal Tourism Board on…

Posted by Nepal Tourism Board on Monday, 11 April 2016