Trekking Tourism Holds Huge Potential

Nepal is a tourists’ paradise. However, the country has not been able to take advantage of what nature has endowed it with: the potential to attract more and more tourists from all over the world. The government has set the target of attracting just 1.6 million tourists during this fiscal year. And the number of tourists visiting the country in this fiscal year could be even less than this target. The 1.1 or 1.2 million figure is what the country has achieved so far. The Visit Nepal Year 1998 aimed at attracting one million tourists. Twenty-six years have elapsed since the campaign was launched, but nothing substantial has been achieved so far.