Flourishing Tourism and Its New Prospects in Nepal

In Nepal the tourist season is approaching. The flow of tourists has been steadily increasing in number since last year. Kathmandu’s five-star hotels are busy in bookings of rooms for the forthcoming season which is usually started from October. The hoteliers have already indicated that the room rates could jump by as much 75 percent during their peak season. As they mention, some hotels have already sold out their rooms even for August.

In 2007, Nepal experienced a record arrival of 526,000 tourists. But the tourism sector remained cool watching the fast-moving political happenings here and the closure of Tibet for the foreigners. The hotel entrepreneurs mentioned that the current political situation seems favourable for the growth in the sector. In the meantime, the country also proved itself mature in dealing with the political events like elections and the peaceful exit of the monarchy. This has given out a very strong and positive message about Nepal in the global tourism market. This is favouring the country to become it a major attraction in the eyes of tourists and foreign entrepreneurs engaged and interested in tourism sector. With the prospects of booming business, many hotels are renovating rooms, and expanding to better cater to the growing number of expected tourists.

As the tourism has become a very promising sector in Nepal, there are possibilities of establishing new hotels and travel companies which support each other. Along with the conventional concepts, new ideas and innovations have to come into place for the growth and survival of the sector business. And so is true in the tourism sector in Nepal. Though, the traditional packages offer the tourists with some sort of varying range of paying capacity, there still seems lacking the innovation incorporated with quality based facilities, packages and services. New prospects of businesses equipped with appropriate standard of facilities and quality based services are expected to have very good horizons of earning. Obviously, this should be done through introduction of innovative products and packages with application of global networking tools and techniques.