One million foreigners visited Nepal in ten months: Official
Nearly one million foreign tourists visited Nepal in the last 10 months of 2024, the latest figures on Tuesday showed.
A total of 960,022 foreigners arrived in Nepal as of October, marking an increase of 15.66 per cent over the same period of last year.
This is according to data released by the Nepal Tourism Board.
In October alone, 124,393 foreign visitors came to Nepal, up 6.04 per cent over October in 2023.
“The rain-induced disasters in the last week of September led many tourists to cancel their visits in October.
“This number will have increased had the situation been better,’’ Mani Raj Lamichhane, director at the tourism board, told Xinhua.
Hundreds of people were killed in floods and landslides sparked by incessant rainfalls across Nepal in late September.
Tourism is a major foreign currency earner and job creator in Nepal.
(Xinhua/NAN)
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