A meeting of Implementation Committee of National Tourism strategic Plan (2015-2024) was held at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism & Civil Aviation on 26th January 2015. Representing NATTA, Secretary General Ms. Mihika Dhakhwa attended the meeting.Similarly, representatives from HAN, NMA & TAAN were also present in the meeting which was chaired by Joint Secretary Mr. Mohan Krishna Sapkota. Also present in the meeting was the DG of Tourism Department, Mr. Tulsi Prasad Gautam and representatives fromSamarth - NMDP an INGO involved in theimplementation plan ofNational Tourism Strategic Plan (2015-2014).
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JTCC organized a Honorprogram for the three newly appointed NTB boardmembers Mr. RajendraSapkota, Mr. GhanendraBahadur Shrestha and Mr. Phurba Gyaljen Sherpa on 23rd January 2015 at Nepal Tourism Board Auditorium Hall. In the presence of members of JTCC, various tourism dignitaries andmedia persons, the program started with the welcome speech by JTCCCoordinator and President of NATTA Mr. D. B Limbu. Newly appointed members were honored and presented the Plaque of Honor by Chief Guest for the program, Mr. Suresh Man Shrestha, Secretary for culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation and Guest of Honor Mr. Tulsi Prasad Gautam, Director General of Department of Tourism. Various delegates from tourism sector delivered felicitation speeches on the occasion. Also the programhonored the sevensummiteers, a team ofNepalese women who climbed the world’s seven summits. The program concluded with the vote of thanks by Sub Coordinator of JTCC and President of NARA Mr. Chandra Dahal. Read More
NATTA in coordination with NTB is coordinating the annual fair TTF (Travel and Tourism Fair) Mumbai, India’s biggest travel show, to be held from 4th—6th February’15. Coordinator for TTF, Mumbai is NATTA 1st Vice President Mr. Shambhu Raj Pathak. For Registration, please contact NATTA Secretariat Deadline for Registration: 15th Jan 2015 (Priority to Participants is on the basis of “First Come First Serve”)
A five-member delegation of Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) comprising of Mr. D.B Limbu, Ms. Mihika Dhakhwa, Prof. Dr. Hari Sarmah, all from NATTA Central Region including Mr. Pom Narayan Shrestha, President of NATTA Western Regional Association (Pokhara) and Mr. Bijay Gurung from NATTA Pokhara called on the office of the Ambassador of South Korea, RaviBhawan on 7th January 2015. The prime mission of the visit was to exchange goodwill and inform HE about the successful participation of NATTASecretary at a training program held recently in Seoul.President of NATTA Pokhara requested HE to visit Pokhara and encourage the travel trade entrepreneurs by kindlyinaugurating the upcoming 20th AGM of the Association in Pokhara on 31st January 2015. HE accepted the invitation and thanked the NATTA fraternity for the same.
NATTA held talks with Director General Mr. Chudamani Sharma and Director of the Department Mr. Gopal Ghimire in regard to VAT issues on transport on 7th Jan 2015 at IRD Office, Lazimpat. It has been agreed that NATTA and NATO will cooperate IRD in making the VAT more effective in the days to come. The major issue discussed was waiving ofoutstanding VAT amount for the F/Y 2069-70 that have not been billed. The meeting also agreed to organize anOrientation Program on VAT latest by 3rd Feb as a joint venture of NATTA, NATO and IRD. The NATTA delegation was headed by 2nd V.P / Coordinator, Special Tax andRevenue Subcommittee Mr. CN Pandey along with Mr. Ashok Pokhrel (President, NATO), Mr. MadhuSudan Acharya, Mr. Bishwesh Shrestha and Mr. G.N Shakya.
The Eighth Meeting of the Nepal-Tibet (China) JointCommittee for Tourism Promotion was held in Lhasa from 23-27th December, 2014. Mr. Binay Basnet, Executive Member of NATTA was nominated to participate in the above meeting. Director General of Tourism Department, Ministry of Culture, Tourism & Civil Aviation Mr.Tulashi Prasad Gautam and Nepalese Consul-General Mr. Hari Prasad Bashyal had jointly led the sixteen NepaleseDelegates representing government and non-governmentsector in the meeting. From the Tibet (China) side, Mr. Zeng Wanming, the Vice-Chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region (China) led the 21 member Chinese delegates. The meeting, as felt by both the delegates from Nepal and Tibet (China) went very fruitful and a fresh MOU was signed by the Chief of the delegates on 25th December in Lhasa. Besides the agenda of easing the tourists mobility in the Tibet Region, the meeting also focused on the cross Boarder and Immigration points. The details Read More
Nepal Tourism Board, celebrating its 16th Anniversary held a presentation on the burning issue ofcommercialization of mountaineering by Mr. David Durkan, the author of “Penguins on Everest” dated on 24th December, at Auditorium Hall, NTB. Mr. Durkan spoke on how commercialization has turned climbing Everest into a product to be bought and sold like any other commodity and not an adventure activity anymore. Also raising the issue, whether is mountaineering a challenge for the intrepid explorer or just a fun activity for moneyed pleasure seekers, the followed program gave a tribute to climbers who recently died in an avalanche on Everest. President Mr. D.B Limbu and 1st Vice President Mr. Shambhu Raj Pathak., represented NATTA in the program.
President Mr. D.B. Limbu, also the Coordinator of Joint Tourism Co-ordination Committee, acongregation of about fifty tourism relatedassociations in Kathmandu, called a joint meeting of the Committee on Wednesday, 24th December at NATTA Secretariat and discussed on the agenda of the two contradictory provisions in Tourism Act and in Transport Act in regard to the definition of 'tourism'. The meeting also focused on nominations of new members in the Nepal Tourism Board, & discussed about the possibility of Tourist BusTerminal in Kathmandu. Presidents of various associations participated and delivered on the issues. It was also agreed that all associations under JTCC will identify their problems and issues in their respective associations and will submit the same to the Coordinator as JTCC isplanning to submit a memorandum of JTCC Grievances in the near future.
We are pleased to inform that NARA (Nepal Association of Rafting Agents) on the occasion of its 26th Anniversary is organizing a Blood Donation Program on 26th December 2014 (corresponding to Poush the 11th, 2071 B.S), Friday, 10 am at Thamel, Kathmandu. Interested members are kindly requested to participate on the same. Forfurther information, please contact NARA, 4244048.
Nepal Airlines is operating twice daily flights except on Saturday to Pokhara by Y12 E aircraft with effect from 18December 2014, one flight in the morning and one in the afternoon. NA has also floated special promotional fares for some time keeping in mind the maximum benefit to agents as far as possible. More destinations will be added in the near future to different places like Janakpur, Simara, Tumlingtar, Dang and so on. NA has been operating daily flights to Biratnagar, thrice weekly flights to Nepalgunj and twice daily flights to Bhairahawa, Bhadrapur and Dhangadhi by MA 60 aircraft and have assured the improvement in punctuality and reliability of the flights to thesedestinations subject to the weather condition. Nepal Airlines has requested the travel members to join on domestic web ticketing (those who have not yet joined) as soon as possible and sell flights for the mutual benefit. Read More
Mr. Ramesh Thapa, Secretary of NATTA visitedSecretariat of Korean Association of Travel Agent (KATA) on 14th November 2014. During his visit, he met with Director of KATA, Mr. Kim Byeong Sam and had andiscussion on promotion of tourism, relationship andexchanged the allied membership.
Apropos of the recent nomination of Mr. Pavitra Kumar Karki, an executive office bearing member (Immediate Past President) of the current NATTA Executive Committee and Managing director of Danfe Travel Centre to the most prestigious andwell-deserved position of Board of Director of Nepal Airlines, NATTA fraternity and NATTA Board in particular feels extremely honored and deems his personalexperience of leadership at various national and international travel trade forums would go a long way towardsrapidly consolidating our national flag carrier. NATTA wishes Mr. Karki a very active and resourceful tenure in NA Board and extends most sincere and profound Best Wishes to him and his other colleagues Mr. Mukti Ram Pandey, Chairman of Samrat Tours and Travels, Mr. NimaNuru Sherpa,Managing Director of Cho-Oyu Trekking an unprecedented success to make NA stand erect in the presentcompetition in theaviation sector. NATTA also pledges to support Mr. Karki all through his endeavors to heighten the Read More
Mr. D. B. Limbu, President NATTA & Coordinator JTCC, attended a meeting on Great Himalaya Trail at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism & Civil Aviation on 5th December 2014, Friday at 11:30 a.m. Also, present in the meeting was the NATTA Secretary General, Ms. Mihika Dhakhwa.
A meeting was held with the marketing department of Nepal Tourism Board on 4th December 2014, Thursday at 2:30 p.m. The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss on further possibilities of joint coordination for the participation on the international Travel trade fairs. NATTA has proposed NTB to jointly work on coordination of at least one travel trade fair in India & China to start off with. NATTA has been coordinating FITUR which is held in Madrid, Spain since past several years. Moreover, NATTA hasrequested Nepal Tourism Board to contribute 25% extra on the stalldecoration/design so that our Nepal stand will be of better standard and up to the international mark. Present in the meeting was the President Mr. D. B. Limbu, Secretary General, Ms. Mihika Dhakhwa & Secretary Mr. Ramesh Thapa.
Ms. Mihika Dhakhwa, Secretary General who is the appointed member of NTB Restructuring Committee attended themeeting at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism & Civil Aviation on 3rd December 2014, Wednesday at 3 p.m. This meeting was in continuation of the past several meetings which were held to discuss on suggestions of NTB Restructuring.
A meeting was held in preparation for FITUR 2015 which is going to be held from January 28 to February 1st 2015 at Madrid, Spain.Present in the meeting were those registered travel companies who are participating for the event. Meeting was coordinated by theCoordinator for FITUR 2015, Mr. Narayan Prasad Gurung Koney at NATTA Secretariat.
For all the IATA Accredited NATTA members, we are pleased to inform you that NATTA has managed to get approval from Nepal Rastra Bank for the remittance of IATA Agency fee & BSP Link fee to IATASingapore for our valued members. Therefore we request all our IATA accredited members to do the following: - The letter format to be filled up and printed in the company letterhead signed by the authorized person & stamped. - The letter along with the amount is to be sent to NATTASecretariat latest by 5th December 2014. Thus, we have circulated the email regarding the approval from Rastra Bank to all IATA Accredited NATTA members along with the letter format to be filled up. lf you require any further information, please kindly contact NATTA Secretariat. We assure our continuous effort to work towards the benefit of our members at all times. Read More
Pokhara Ultralight has added new flights of various durations at different trek routes. There are flights operating for 30, 60 and 90 minutes through scenic routes around Pokhara valley.
