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| No risk to tourists in Nepal, says Shukla |
| 29-Oct-2003 |
Minister for Culture, Tourism and civil Aviation Sarbendra Nath Shukla has spoken of the need for the national communications media to publicize with priority the fact that there is no risk to tourism in Nepal.
Stating that although the country has been in the grip of killings, violence and political instability since some years, this has had no impact on tourists.
it is necessary that the mass media accord priority to news inspiring people towards peace rather than news about the conflict and violence, he pointed out.
Addressing the first annual general meeting of the tourism journalists group here today, Minister Shukla said the government is soon going to constitute a high-level conflict management committee to make the tourism sector more systematic.
Tourism arrivals from foreign countries has increased by 15 per cent this year compared to last year, he said adding, the government is willing to join hands with tourism entrepreneurs concerned to make the tourism sector more dynamic and effective by resolving problems facing this sector.
Chief executive officer of Nepal Tourism Board Tek Bahadur Dangi said the board was going to implement various concrete programmes for the development of regional tourism, trekking tourism and mountaineering in Nepal.
President of the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ) Tara Nath Dahal said professionalism and expertise in Nepal journalism were increasing.
He stressed that the national mass media should be utilized for tourism promotion.
At the programme presided over by group president Nabin Singh Khadka, a host of tourism entrepreneurs including Ang Tshering Sherpa, Rabi Poudel, Bikas Rana, Deepak Mahat and Nanikaji Thapa spoke on the problems and challenges facing the tourism sector....RSS
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