Nepal Tourism Board


The Nepal Tourism Board is an organization of Nepal under the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation. It is commissioned to promote the country's tourism industry and derive an according strategy for the Government of Nepal. It is financed by collecting fees from tourists visiting Nepal. It is also responsible for issuning permits for touristic trekking and mountaineering in Nepal.

History

Nepal Tourism Board was established in 1998 by the Government of Nepal in cooperation with the private sector tourism industry and replaced the existing Department of Tourism.

Visit Nepal

To promote Tourism in Nepal, the Nepal Tourism Board has implemented several campaigns called Visit Nepal Year, with the first edition being the Visit Nepal Year 1998, followed by the Nepal Tourism Year 2011 with the aim of getting 1,000,000 tourists to visit Nepal.

Visit Nepal 2020

A larger campaign was designed to promote tourism after the series of earthquakes in 2015. This Visit Nepal Year 2020 targeted to achieve two
million tourist arrivals with a daily expenditure of over USD 75. Several goodwill ambassadors, including Roelly Winklaar and Johan Ernst Nilson were to support the tourism promotion. The campaign was opened with a ceremony at Dasharath Rangasala Stadium by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari. On 13 April 2020, the campaign was cancelled due to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.