Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) Western Regional Association Pokhara held its 17th AGM and 7th Convention election for the year 2012-2014 for the executive committee. Mr. Kedar Nath Sharma has been elected unanimously for the post of President of NATTA Regional Association Pokhara. Mr. Santosh Pokharel, Mr. Pomnarayan Shrestha and Dilli Prasad Gautam have been elected as new first vice president, second vice president and general secretary respectively of the committee. Likewise, Mrs. Sangita Paudel bagged the position of the secretary and Mr. Jhabilal Adhikari was announced as treasurer. Similarly Mr. Harka Bahadur Gurung, Mr. Sanjaya Kanta Sigdel, Mr. Prem Subedi, Mr. Subas Bhandari, Mr. Bijaya Gurung, Mr. Rishi Ram Paudel and Mr. Kishor Dahal were elected as the executive members. NATTA Central President Mr. Pavitra Kumar Karki inaugurated the 17th Annual General Meeting and 7th Convention of the Regional Association on Friday amid a function. Speaking Read More
Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) held its 48th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and conducted the Elections for a new body of its Executive Board on Friday, the 6th January, 2012 in Kathmandu.Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation Mr. Lokendra Bista inaugurated the AGM on the same day at Hotel Radisson in the capital. Following the AGM, NATTA elections officer Mr. Bishnu Prasad Baskota announced new executive committee of NATTA elected unanimously. According to him, Mr. Pravitra Kumar Karki, Mr. Madhu Sudan Acharya, Mr. Sambhu Pathak, Mr. Achyut Sharma Guragain have been elected as the President, 1st Vice President, 2nd Vice President and Secretary General respectively. Newly elected President Karki was the 1st Vice President in the immediate NATTA Board and Mr. Acharya and Mr. Guragain were also Secretary General and Secretary in the then committee.Likewise, Mr. Santosh Gautam, Mr. Navaraj Sapkota and Mr. Gokul KC were announced Read More
An exam evaluation committee has published the results of six day International Fares and Ticketing Training (BSP Accreditation Ticketing Program) examination held December 11, 2011 at Royal Singhi Hotel in Kathmandu.Mr. Binaya Shah, Ms. Resma Tiwari, Mr. Rabindra Hayu, Mr. Sanobabu Ghimire, Mr. Sanobabu Ghimire, Mr. Lekh Nath Sharma, Ms. Munu Thapa Magar, Mr. Phadindra Neupane, Mr. Ram Babu Bhandari, Mr. Deb Bahadur K.C., Ms. Anju Shrestha, Ms. Neeta Gurung, Mr. Anuj Pandey, Mr. Bishal Aryal, Mr. Man Bahadur Shahi, Mr. Shiv Hari Goit, Ms. Pratiksha Shrestha, Mr. Rajan Thaku, Ms. Janaka (Junu) Bhusal and Mr. Birendra Sah have passed the exam.IATA recognized trainer Mr. B K Singh imparted the training to the representatives of member travel companies of Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA).In the collaboration of Board of Airlines Representatives in Nepal (BARN), NATTA had conducted in the capital.
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) is going to hold its 48th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and conduct the Elections for a new body of its Executive Board on Friday, the 6th January, 2012 in Kathmandu. The 44th NATTA Executive Board meeting held on 2nd, December 2011, had decided the AGM and elections on the same day at Hotel Radisson in the capital. NATTA Secretariat is all set to prepare further processes to accomplish the both- AGM and Elections smoothly. The Program of the day will soon be posted on NATTA website. However, the tentative program is as shown below: 6th January, 2012 Inauguration Program 0900-1100hrs AGM 1100-1230hrs Elections 1300-1600hrs Results 17300hrs
A six day Basic Fare Construction and Ticketing Training that Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) has been providing in conjunction Board of Airlines Representatives in Nepal (BARN), started at the Royal Singhi Hotel in the capital on Monday. Mr. B.K Singh, ex official of Nepal Airlines Corporation, is imparting the 23 participants from the member travel companies of the NATTA on the ticketing. The training is expected to produce effective human resource for the travel industry.
Bhaktapur Municipality Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mr. Gopal Prasad Regmi and Tourism Officer Mr. Gautam Prasad Lasiwa called on Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) to discuss regarding tourism activities in the Bhaktapur area. In the meeting held at NATTA Secretariat, both of the sides exchanged their views on the challenges, opportunities and future tourism sector. Bhaktapur Municipality officials(from right) during talks at NATTA Secretariat CEO Mr. Regmi assured that the Municipality would be keen to join hands with NATTA as the oldest organization in the travel and tour sector. He also agreed to continue the talks in the future to this effect. Officials of NATTA stressed on many issues such as travel companies guarantee in advance taken by the Municipality, construction of tourist toilets and other facilities for the tourists to enhance quality of tourism in the Bhaktapur Durbar Square area which provides unique flavor Read More
Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) President Mr. Arjun Prasad Sharma and other office bearers of the NATTA board along with Executive members attended the 13th anniversary of the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) held recently in Kathmandu. President Mr. Arjun Prasad SharmaNTB, a model of public-private partnership endeavor which looks after tourism sector, has been making tie up with tourism stakeholders since it was established in 1999. The then Department of Tourism was changed into the semi-government organization to meet the new challenges and opportunities as well as to foster the development of the tourism in the country. However, vacancy of the Chief Executive Officer, top most post of the board, has been hampering the major tourism activities since November 1 as immediate past CEO Prachanda Man Shrestha retired after completing his regular tenure of four years in NTB.The tourism industry has been keenly looking forward to the Read More
Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) is going to distribute the Tribhuwan International Airport (TIA) Golden Gate passes for its member travel agencies soon. The passes will be made available from NATTA Secretariat soon. Likewise, NATTA Secretariat will be issuing NATTA ID cards to the Managing Directors’ of the member companies.
Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) 2nd Vice President Sarbottam Lal Shrestha held a talks with officials of Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan on the tourism related matters recently. NATTA 2nd Vice President Sarbottam Lal Shrestha The discussion was focused in existing facilities in the Patan Durbar square area and some historical, cultural and heritage sites for the shake of development of tourism sector in Lalitpur district. Likewise other NATTA Officials participated in a meeting organized by the Embassy of Bangladesh to Nepal in the capital. They discussed on the issues of bilateral tourism development in both south Asian nations- Nepal and Bangladesh.
International Air Transport Association (IATA) Officials Mr. Sunil Chopra and Mr. Anil Srivastav called on Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) Secretariat and discussed on BSP payment with NATTA officials and members of Agency Program Joint Council (APJC) on November 3 at NATTA Secretariat. The meeting agreed to hold further talks to settle down the issue of new provision BSP. IATA urged a three members name for the same. Likewise, following the meet with IATA officials, NATTA organized another meeting with its member for the same.
New travel agencies Gochali Tours and Travels P. Ltd. Thamel, Kathmandu and Air Corridor Travels and Tours Pvt. Ltd, of Chabahil, Kathmandu joined NATTA as provisional members on 7 November. Mr. Deepak Rajbhandari (left) and Mr. Bhaginath Sapkota NATTA President Mr. Arjun Prasad Sharma handed over the certificates and other documents to Bhaginath Sapkota of Gochali and Dipak Rajbhandari of Air Corridor in the 43rd Board meeting. Other board officials also expressed their well wishes the new ones and asked for their active role in the travel and tour sector. Above 500 travel companies are associated with NATTA to provide quality services to valuable costumers since it was established on 10th March 1966
In the view to promote tourism, NATTA has formed a three member committee under the leadership of Secretary Mr. Achyut Sharma Guragain for the effective participation of FITUR (Spain) and COTTM Beijing (China). NATTA has been involving in such international promotion programs ever since the time of its establishment. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Secy Achyut Sharma Guragain NATTA Executive Members Mr. Sudhir Kumar Upadhyay and Mr. Bhim Prasad Panta also nominated as the members of the committee. Likewise, NATTA has been preparing for the participation at the congress of United Federation of Travel Agents’ Associations (UFTAA) which is scheduled from November 19 to 24 in Manaco.
In the invitation of the SNV-Nepal, NATTA General Secretary Mr. Madhu Sudan Acharya and Executive Member Mr. Anangam Raj Timalsena attended a discussion program held on 19 October at Shankar Hotel in Kathmandu. (L-R) NATTA CEO, General Secretary, Monica and Marjotrie (file photo) The discussion was focused on the SNV’s upcoming project to be centred on the capacity building of the new job seekers in the tourism sector. This program is expected to be implemented in the near future. NATTA Chief Executive Officer Prof. Dr. Hari Sarmah represents NATTA in the steering committee for The Great Himalayan Trail (GTHT) of the SNV.
NATTA Immediate Past President Ram Kaji Koney has been nominated in the Investment Promotion Council (IPC) of Federation of the Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) for the year 2068/70 BS. As the government has been mulling the upcoming year 2012 as the Investment Year, the move of the FNCCI has come as to assist the campaign of the year. IPP Ram Kaji Koney IPC has been formed under the convernership of Mr. Chandra Prasad Dhakal, a FNCCI member recently. The committee comprises of Mr. Ashok Agrawal as the sub-coordinator and Mr. Ram Kaji Koney (Tourism sector), Mr. Jiva Lamichhane (NRN), Mr. Dr Jugal Bhurtel (Hydropower sector), Mr. Gyan Bahadur GC (Charter Accountant Association), Mr. Pancharatna Shakya (Nepal China Chamber of Commerce), Mr. Purnaman Shakya (Nepal Bar Association) and Mr. Radhesh Panta (Nepal Bankers’ Association) as the members.
A Chinese delegation led by Mr. Xu Zhenghua, Marketing Director of Lijing Tourism Administration, met Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) President Mr. Arjun Prasad Sharma and General Secretary Mr. Madhu Sudan Acharya on 18 October in Kathmandu. President holding talks with Chinese delegation In the meeting, the Chinese delegation invited NATTA officials to participate in the travel trade fair which is scheduled from November 22 in China. In response the NATTA officials informed them that the participation for the fair is not possible due to the short span of time. However, they assured that NATTA would be participating in the upcoming fair COTTM Beijing in China. The Chinese team expressed their interest to tie up with NATTA to enhance the bilateral relations of the two friendly counties-Nepal and China especially through development of the tourism sector.
In the invitation of the SNV-Nepal, NATTA General Secretary Mr. Madhu Sudan Acharya and Executive Member Mr. Anangam Raj Timalsena attended a discussion program held on 19 October at Shankar Hotel in Kathmandu. (L-R) NATTA CEO, General Secretary, Monica and Marjotrie (file photo) The discussion was focused on the SNV’s upcoming project to be centred on the capacity building of the new job seekers in the tourism sector. This program is expected to be implemented in the near future. NATTA Chief Executive Officer Prof. Dr. Hari Sarmah represents NATTA in the steering committee for The Great Himalayan Trail (GTHT) of the SNV.
1st Vice President Mr. Pavitra Kumar Karki has been appointed as the board of Director of the Citizen Bank International recently. 1st Vice President Pavitra Kumar Karki Karki is also the Managing Director to the Danfe Travel, a leading travel agency in the country since two decades.
A Chinese delegation led by Mr. Xu Zhenghua, Marketing Director of Lijing Tourism Administration, met Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) President Mr. Arjun Prasad Sharma and General Secretary Mr. Madhu Sudan Acharya on 18 October in Kathmandu. President holding talks with Chinese delegation In the meeting, the Chinese delegation invited NATTA officials to participate in the travel trade fair which is scheduled from November 22 in China. In response the NATTA officials informed them that the participation for the fair is not possible due to the short span of time. However, they assured that NATTA would be participating in the upcoming fair COTTM Beijing in China. The Chinese team expressed their interest to tie up with NATTA to enhance the bilateral relations of the two friendly counties-Nepal and China especially through development of the tourism sector.
Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents has organized the 2nd Annual NATTA Special Program 2011, mega event on 24th September at the Tribhuwan Army Officers’ Club in Kathmandu. The program was organized to welcome World Tourism Day, National Festival Dashain, Tihar and Chhath with the slogan of the ongoing Nepal Tourism Year 2011, ‘Together for Tourism’. Singers Komal Oli, Shital and Subani Moktan, Avaya Subba, Mingma Sherpa performed their performances. Likewise, the dance groups of Renash Rai, Bboying and Nepsydaz also entertained the participants through their performances in the event. In the program, some 23 international sponsored air tickets of different airlines and other surprise packages were distributed to the participants as the door prize. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} More than 1500 Read More
Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents has launched its new version of website www. natta.org.np on the occasion of the 2nd Annual NATTA Special Program. NATTA President Arjun Prasad Sharma inaugurated the NATTA’s new version of website amid a function at the Amy Officers’ Club on September 24. The website was developed and designed by the Sabaiko Technology Pvt., Kathmandu. The new NATTA website has incorporated latest technologies and link in social networking like facebook, Twitter, linkind and RSS. The new website could be converted in 50 different international languages. NATTA members would get benefit from varieties of features of the website after logged in.
