President DB Limbu of Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA), has been appointed as newcoordinator for Joint Tourism Coordination Committee (JTCC). Outgoing coordinator Mr. Ramesh Prasad Dhamala, President of Trekking Agencies´ Association of Nepal (TAAN), handed over the responsibility of JTCC to Mr. Limbu on Wednesday,19th November’14. Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Mr. Suresh Man Shrestha handed over minute-book of JTCC to President Mr. D.B Limbu amid a function held at Nepal Tourism Board (NTB). Speaking at the program, President Mr. Limbu assured to givecontinuity to the works initiated by the outgoing coordinator and will work in coordination with all tourism associations that areunder JTCC. Similarly, outgoing coordinator Mr. Ramesh Dhamala thanked government officials, staffers of Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), tourism entrepreneurs, and media persons, for their support and cooperation. Mr. Dhamala also drew the attention of Tourism Secretary Mr. Shrestha, Read More
With a view to easing vehicular movement of tourists, NATTA Delegates, Secretary General Ms. MihikaDhakhwa and Executive Member Ms. Kamla Gurung met with Deputy Inspector General of Police Mr. Keshav Adhikari, head of Traffic Police Division. After continuous follow up with the concerned authorities the government has decided to allow tourist vehicles to move in the valley without the requirement to follow the odd/even number rule. Similarly the airport pick up drop off at the airport has been eased for the tourist movement. NATTA hascirculated detail information to all members regarding the traffic management in Kathmandu valley during SAARC Summit. It has been requested to listen Traffic FM 96.6 regularly (It updates traffic news in every 15 min) in vehicle to get update about traffic movement and call at 103 or 4219641 or 4233108 to know about the traffic movement.
NATTA welcomes five members as NATTA Member. President D.B Limbu handed over the certificates withrelated documents. Executive Board Members also expressed their best wishes to the newly joined members. The members were honored in the 42nd Board meeting held at NATTA Secretariat. Members are: · Lumbini Holidays Tours & Travel Pvt. Ltd. · Touch Kailash Travel & Tours Pvt. Ltd. · World Vacations Travels & Tours Pvt. Ltd. · Signature Holiday Pvt. Ltd. · Tour Desk International Nepal Pvt. Ltd.
The MOU was made and entered betweenNATTA and Sajha Yatayat, a public Transport Cooperative for outsourcing buses for SajhaYatayat's Nepal India Bus Service. Both theparties have mutual concord to start Nepal-India bus service in the banner of Sajha Yatayat using the quality buses of tour and travelcompanies who are the members of NATTA. Mr. Sher Bahadur Budha, CEO of Sajha Yatayat and NATTA Acting President / 2nd Vice President Mr. C.N Pandey signed the agreement. NATTA Executive Member, Mr. Sudhir Kumar Upadhyay has been appointed the Coordinator for this project.
In coordination with PastPresident Mr. Arjun Prasad Sharma, NATTA had a meeting with H.E Mr. Deepak Dhital, Nepal Ambassador forSwitzerland on 9th ofNovember. Present in the meeting were Past Presidents Mr. RM Singh Pradhan, Mr. Arjun Prasad Sharma, Mr. Ram Kaji Koney, Also present were President Mr. DB Limbu, 2nd VP Mr. C.N Pandey, Secretary General Mrs. Mihika Dhakhwa, ExecutiveMembers Mr. Chitra BahadurGurung, Mr. Yubaraj Subedi, Mr. Sudhir Kumar Upadhyay and Mrs. Sabita Bhattarai K.C. During the meeting, various ideas were exchanged on how to make most out of the existing potential that Nepal has in tourism andpromote Nepal in EuropeMarket. H.E Mr. Dhital assured to support the travel trade sector in promotion of tourism in Nepal and showed eagerness to work together with NATTA in the coming days.
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281 7772400 10058400 259 261 257 276 262 279 1 0`````````````````````` 5 1 0 285 282 1 False 0 0 0 0 -1 304800 243 True 128 77 255 3175 3175 70 True True True True True 278 134217728 1 3 -9999996.000000 -9999996.000000 8 Empty 7167831 3639038 14260341 10351615 1989103 12693415 16777215 90 Oriel 22860000 22860000 (`@````````` 266 263 5 110185200 110185200 On behalf of NATTA. Mr.Binay Basnet, Executive Memberparticipated on the National Tourism Strategy & Action Plan (2015-2024) - Validation Workshop organized by Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MOCTCA) on 31st October 2014 at NATHAM Academy, Ravibhawan. Secretary of MOCTCA, Mr. Suresh Man Shrestha was the Chief Guest on the workshop and the Speakers were Former Secretary Dipendra Purush Dhakal, Member ofConstitutional Assembly Ram Chandra Pokharel, Joint Secretary MOCTCA, Director General,Department of Tourism. The Presentation Consultants were Mr. Rabi Jung Pandey and Mr. Sumeet Baral. The Read More
281 7772400 10058400 259 261 257 276 262 279 1 0`````````````````````` 5 1 0 285 282 1 False 0 0 0 0 -1 304800 243 True 128 77 255 3175 3175 70 True True True True True 278 134217728 1 2 -9999996.000000 -9999996.000000 8 Empty 7167831 3639038 14260341 10351615 1989103 12693415 16777215 90 Oriel 22860000 22860000 (`@````````` 266 263 5 110185200 110185200 A six-member NATTA delegation called on the office of theDirector General of the newly set up Department of Tourism replacing theTourism Industry Division at Bhrikuti Mandap. Thedelegation led by President D.B. Limbu presented a bouquet and congratulated Tulsi Prasad Gautam on his appointment as Director General of DOT. He also handed over a letter of NATTAgrievances to DG Gautam and expressed the hope that under his ableleadership in thedepartment, all thosegenuine demands of NATTA will be addressed. The demands put up by NATTA include inter alias amendment Read More
281 7772400 10058400 259 261 257 276 262 279 1 0`````````````````````` 5 1 0 285 282 1 False 0 0 0 0 -1 304800 243 True 128 77 255 3175 3175 70 True True True True True 278 134217728 1 6 -9999996.000000 -9999996.000000 8 Empty 7167831 3639038 14260341 10351615 1989103 12693415 16777215 90 Oriel 22860000 22860000 (`@````````` 266 263 5 110185200 110185200 The Executive Board of NepalAssociation of Tour & Travel Agents (NATTA) would like to acknowledge all the sponsors for the support and co-operation in making the sports activities (TableTennis Championship and NATTA Futsal Tournament) as well as Blood Donation program a grand success which was organized on the occasion of 35th WorldTourism Day.
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281 7772400 10058400 259 261 257 276 262 279 1 0`````````````````````` 5 1 0 285 282 1 False 0 0 0 0 -1 304800 243 True 128 77 255 3175 3175 70 True True True True True 278 134217728 1 2 -9999996.000000 -9999996.000000 8 Empty 7167831 3639038 14260341 10351615 1989103 12693415 16777215 90 Oriel 22860000 22860000 (`@````````` 266 263 5 110185200 110185200 The Executive Board of Nepal Association of Tour & Travel Agents (NATTA) would like to avail of this opportunity to acknowledge all our sposnors for the outstanding support and co-operation in making the The Fifth NATTA Special Program – Carnival 2014 a grand success.
NATTA Executive Committee is now fully absorbed in making preparations to celebrate and mark the World Tourism Day. The program starts from Saturday, the 13th Sept. with Third NATTA Inter-Agency Table-Tennis Championship in Kathmandu followed by Second NATTA 5 A Side Futsal Tournament on 20th September and on 24th Sept. NATTA will host its Third Blood Donation Program at the premises of Goma Ganesh temple, Gairidhara. The 26th September will be the day of NATTA Carnival being organized as 5th NATTA Special Program at Hotel Annapurna. NATTA members and Invitees from the travel fraternity are expected to participate in the Carnival.
Last Wednesday, on 10th September, Secretary General Ms. Mihika Dhakhwa, Treasurer Mr. Narayan Gurung Koney and Prof. Hari Sarmah called on the Office of Executive Director, ForeignExchange Department, Nepal Rastra Bank Mr. Bhisma Raj Dhungana and enquired about the NRB decisions regarding the letter of grievances put up by NATTA almost a month ago. In regard to NATTA proposal of collecting the BSP link Fee and IATA Annual Fee centrally at NATTA and then depositing the same to local bank for transfer of the same to IATA Office in Singapore, the NRB Executive Director Mr. Dhungana said NRB was positive in considering this proposal but NATTA and IATA will have to produce a joint agreement to the above effect. NATTA is now focusing on giving vent to the idea of collecting the IATA Annual fees and BSP Link Fees payable by the IATA accredited NATTA members and designing a Read More
A Close Session Program on IATA BSP Remittance Cycle was organized by NATTA on Wednesday, the 02nd September, 2014 at Hotel Radisson from 1:30-5 p.m. Almost all the IATA Accredited members of NATTA attended the program. The purpose of the meeting was to decide on future BSP Remittance Cycle. Various opinions from the members were expressed on the matter. End of the program was followed by voting system to decide on the Remittance Cycle for 7 days, 10 days and 15 days simultaneously. With the votes of the members, the majority was for 15 days of Remittance Cycle. The opinions of the IATA agents on the remittance cycle from the close session will be proposed in the upcoming APJC meeting.
President Mr. D.B. Limbu, Secretary Gen. Mrs. Mihika Dhakhwa and CEO Prof. Hari Sarmah were invited by South Asia Tourism Infrastructure Development Project (SATIDP) to participate in its joint meeting with leaders of tourism related associations on 31st August, Sunday at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism & Civil Aviation, Singhadurbar. Themeeting reflected on the Formulation of Tourism Promotion Plan for Lumbini and Adjoining Areas (TPPLAA). On the occasion, Mr. Ram Sedai, the Leader of the Study Group presented his findings during the past course of time thatengulfed the major outcomes of the consultations with the private sector, Development partners and Government Agencies in regard to the Lumbini Tourism Promotion Plan (2015-2025). At the end of the program President Limbu urged that the planners must consider implementing the small infrastructural requirements before drawing ambitious plans and programs. He said for the promotion of tourism in sectors like Lumbini & Chitwan, we need to ply Read More
Thirty-member team comprising of the Executive Committee and the members of NATTA Western Regional Association, Pokhara set out for a five-day long Fam Trip to the Eastern Region of Nepal andvisited the major touristic destinations on 31st August, 2014. NATTA Pokhara has been visiting various places in Nepal in view of thedevelopment of Domestic Tourism every year since 2004. The NATTA group visited the places like Sauraha, Biratnagar, Chandragarhi, Pashupatinagar, Fikkal, Kanyam and Janakpur etc. NATTA Pokhara team had interactive meetings with local tourism stakeholders and other concerned bodies during their Fam Trip.
Nepal Association of Tour & Travel Agents (NATTA) on Thursday, the 28th August handed over a cheque of Rupees One Lac and Twenty one Thousand to Mr. Gopal Prasad Parajuli, the Chief District Officer of Sindhupalchowk in Chautara at DAO Office in the presence of Assistant CDO Mr. Dipraj Regmi, DSP Mr. Bharat Bahadur Bohora, Chief of Investigation Mr. Jit Bahadur Ghale,President and Joint Secretary of NJA (Sindhupalchok) Mr. Yubaraj Puri and Mr. Dipak Aryal. Also present on the occasion was the President of Press Union (Sindhupalchok) Mr. Dhruba Dangal. The NATTA delegation to Chautara was headed by President Mr. D.B. Limbu, Executive Member Mr. Yadu Lamichhane and CEO Prof. Hari Sarmahaccompanied him. Mr. Limbu while handing over the relief fund collected from NATTA Executives, Members and Staff of the Secretariat said that though the amount is not quite big, it bears the sentiments of NATTA as a token Read More
A nine-member NATTA delegation met newly appointed Secretary for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Mr. Suresh Man Shrestha on Wednesday, the 27th August at his office in Ministry of Culture,Tourism and Civil Aviation, Singhadurbar. The delegation led by President Mr. D.B. Limbu felicitated Secretary Mr. Shrestha with bouquet and khada. Speaking on behalf of NATTA Board and NATTA General Members President Mr. Limbu expressed congratulatory words and best wishes for remarkable success of Mr. Shrestha's tenure of office. President Mr. Limbu also explained and presented a six-point letter of memorandum to Secretary Mr. Shrestha. The NATTA grievances stated in the letter of Memorandum include: the immediate amendment of the definition of "Tourist" in both the existing Tourism Act and Transport Act of the Government of Nepal thereby easing the services of tourist transports to both the domestic as well as foreign tourists, creating the provision of issuing permits Read More
NATTA has convened a Close Door Session on IATA Remittance Cycle on Tuesday, the 2nd September, corresponding to 17th Bhadra, 2071 at 1.30 p.m. at Hotel Radisson. All IATA accredited NATTA members have been sent email message to the above effect with humble request to kindly attend the session.
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