Nepal’s tourism potential

The country must be clear about the kind and number of tourists it needs and can handle.

In an uplifting news for Nepal’s tourism, the country saw the arrival of a million tourists in 2023. As per the Nepal Tourism Board, this was the third time the arrivals crossed the million mark, with the two other occasions being the pre-pandemic years of 2017 and 2019. The actual number could be much higher than a million, as the Indian tourists who enter Nepal via road are not accounted for in the current data. But the omission of data on the arrival of Indian tourists through over two dozen border checkpoints is not the only instance of their invisibilisation.