Nepal tourist arrivals drop to 34 years low in 2020 2 minutes read
By Sangam Prasain
Kathmandu, Jan 3 (efe-epa).- The number of foreign tourists in Nepal plunged more than 80 percent in 2020, the lowest level in 34 years, according to official figures released on Sunday, as the coronavirus pandemic hit global travel.
According to the statistics by the Department of Immigration, 230,085 foreign tourists visited the country last year, which the government of the Himalayan nation had announced as “Visit Nepal 2020” to draw two million visitors.
“The arrival figure is far worse than the downturn during the Maoist insurgency (1996-2006) and the 2015 earthquakes combined,” Dhananjaya Regmi, chief executive officer of the Nepal Tourism Board, told Efe.