Need To Tap Tourism Potential

As per the data made available by the Nepal Tourism Board, a little over one million (1,014876) foreign tourists visited Nepal in 2023. The officials concerned have expressed happiness that the tourism sector is gradually picking up the rhythm it lost owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. They maintain that the country has recovered around 85 per cent of the pre-pandemic figure (2019). The 2023 figure is lower than the pre-pandemic figures of 2018 and 2019. In 2018, the county welcomed 1.17 million tourists, which jumped slightly to 1.19 million in 2019. This is the third time the country has hit the one million mark in the tourism sector. The country was preparing to celebrate the Visit Nepal 2020 campaign when the COVID-19 struck the country along with the rest of the world. With this, the campaign had to be reluctantly revoked.