INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:

Kathmandu, February 5 Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Kumar Bhattarai said the government has been coordinating with

all the stakeholders to avoid any shortcoming to make the Visit Nepal 2020 campaign successful. Speaking at the Parliamentary International

Relations Committee meeting today, he said home work was done to spread message at international level to promote Nepal tourism

&Unexpected outbreak of coronavirus has had some impact

We have shortage of resource for Visit Year 2020

Nevertheless, sanitation work, construction of physical infrastructure and work at the Immigration Office of Tribhuvan International Airport

have been carried out vigorously,& he said. The minister said 2020 has been taken as a year for learning and acquiring experience while the

decade from 2020 to 2030 will be observed as tourism decade

Former prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal described tourism as the backbone for the country economic development and suggested the government

to prepare programmes for the promotion of tourism in coordination with all three levels of the government. He also stressed the need to

improve facilities for tourists

He said road infrastructure should be upgraded and tourists should be treated in civilised manner

&We should provide clean and green environment for the tourists besides so that they are enticed to extend their stay in Nepal& he added

Former deputy prime minister Prakash Man Singh said deplorable condition of the roads in Thamel had raised question over the preparations

for the Visit Year 2020. Former tourism minister Bhim Bahadur Rawal underscored the need to create favourable environment and good

governance for the growth of tourism industry, which would help to boost national economy as well as the country relation with other

countries. He said there should not be disparity on air fare between the foreign tourists and domestic tourists

Committee members Pushpa Bhusal, Sudan Kirati, Uma Regmi, Sarala Yadav, Renuka Gurung, Narad Muni Rana, Deepak Prakash Bhatta and Prem

Prasad Tulachan reiterated that all three levels of the government should keep the tourism promotion programmes on their priority list. The

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