With a huge number of employees in the tourism industry rendered unemployed amid the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, the Nepal Tourism Board is implementing a program to offer temporary employment to those who have lost their jobs. Launched in partnership with the United Nations Development Program, the program is offering short-term job to lower-level workers in the tourism sector by engaging them in the sanitization and maintenance of tourism facilities, which include trekking routes and bridges along the trails.
On July 20, the tourism board started seeking proposals from local non-governmental organisations, cooperatives and community-based organisations with a view to having their participation in the programme, according to reports.