Over 200,000 foreign tourists visit Nepal
KATHMANDU, JULY 4 : A total of 237,813 foreign tourists visited Nepal in the last six months. According to the statistics shared by Nepal Tourism Board, a total of 46,900 tourists came to Nepal via airway last June alone. It is a 69.3 percent increase in comparison to the arrivals of foreign tourists in June 2019.
In May this year, 53,608 tourists entered Nepal, the Board said, adding last April recorded the arrivals of over 50,000 tourists. Over 42,000 came to Nepal in March while February saw an inflow of around 20,000. Similarly, altogether 17,000 tourists were recorded flying to Nepal in January this year. Among the foreign tourists arriving in Nepal this year, Indian nationals stand atop followed by the American ones.
The foreign tourists' influx has been improving since the beginning of this year with a gradual decrease in the number of COVID-19 cases.
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