SANTOSH POKHAREL

1,158,459 foreign tourists enter Nepal in 2025

Tourist hub Pokhara is currently bustling with domestic and Indian visitors. Hotels in Lakeside are fully booked due to the Pokhara Street Festival organized to mark the New Year. Tourism entrepreneurs say hotels have no shortage of guests for at least a week. Restaurants and hotels are packed with...

Hoteliers expect hotels of all categories to remain largely occupied until the New Year, with the positive impact likely to continue for about a week. “Almost all hotels in Pokhara will have guests over the next few days. The situation is very encouraging,” said Lakeside-based hotelier N...

“There are still opportunities in tourism. The highway expansion and airport operation has given us hope. Since we have been in tourism for a long time, it was the right time for us to invest again. Although the hotel is not yet receiving the expected number of guests due to access limitations...

Doctors report a rise in respiratory illnesses

A growing garbage problem is plaguing the streets of Pokhara, a major tourist destination in Nepal. The tourist town’s waste collection has been disrupted for days due to the blockage of the disposal site by locals. The intersections where Pokhara’s main and inner roads meet are overflow...

According to Arun Parajuli, Forest Officer at the Division Forest Office in Manang, the fire broke out in the Timang forest on Saturday evening. Although the fire started near the Timang settlement, it does not currently pose any direct threat to the human settlement. However, Parajuli said that the...

By 2009, foreign tourist arrivals in Nepal surged to 599,956, with approximately 40 percent (203,000) of these tourists visiting Pokhara. Over the four-year period from 2005 to 2009, the share of foreign tourists visiting Pokhara doubled, from 20 percent to 40 percent.

Preparations to launch 'solo' flights

Global tourism improves by 98 percent