Kathmandu, April 12 : The government is conducting a thorough study regarding the impacts of COVID-19 on Nepal’s tourism sector. The country’s tourism industry has been hard by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic since it led to annulment of the national campaign of Visit Nepal Year 2020, which was aimed at bringing 2 million foreign tourists in the country.
As per the directive of Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Kumar Bhattarai, the study would also delve into the impacts of coronavirus on the job market pertaining to the tourism sector. To accomplish the very task, a team of Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Ghanshyam Upadhyay, Director General of Nepal Civil Aviation Authority Rajan Pokharel and CEO of Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) Dr Dhananjaya Regmi is collecting the requited data.
Issuing a notice on Saturday (April 11), the Board has urged all the tourism entrepreneurs and stakeholders to help in the data collection, seeking their help to submit separate details online about airlines, hotel, tourist bus service, rafting, trekking, mountaineering and travels and tours.
Dr Regmi of the NTB said that an online survey was started to figure out the exact condition of the job market related to the tourism industry after the global outbreak of COVID-19.
Meanwhile, Minister Bhattarai held a video conferencing with the chiefs of organizations relating to the tourism sector and asked them to consider the security of the employees. During the meeting, discussions were held about impacts of COVID-19 on the tourism sector and possible measures to tacle them, Minister Bhattarai’s secretariat said. RSS
