NATTA organized a Press-Meet on last 8th April ’12 at NATTA Secretariat to inform the press about NATTA’S China Sales Mission -2012(from 12th -22nd April) to four major Cities, viz., Kunming,Shanghai,Beijing & Xi’an. The press was also informed about NATTA’s upcoming Seminar ‘Problems OF Heritage Conservation & Measures to solve them’. Two press matters were released on the occasion.
With a view to harnessing the vast potential of promoting tourism between Nepal and North India, NATTA organized a joint meeting with the President of North India Management Association (NIMA) Dr. Gulshan Sharma and his high-level delegation comprising of NIMA Secretary General J.N. Vohra, Prof. Narinder Kumar and Dr. Rajdeep Singh currently on move in Kathmandu at NATTA Secretariat on Thursday, the 04th Apr '12. It was suggested that an interactive discussion program between the travel agents of Nepal and North India should be organized at Chandigarh (Punjab) and subsequently at Kathmandu to work out a long term plan to promote travel trade in both the friendly countries.NIMA President Dr. Sharma suggested a "Nepal Calling" tourism-cultural-art and craft and cuisine festival or "Nepal Festival" be organized at Chandigarh and later on at other tourist generating cities of Amritsar, Ludhiana and Jalandhar which could go a long way to project Nepal Read More
Mr. Thomas Bellamy, Manager Nepal, Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Limited accompanied by his senior officers Mr. Arun Thapa and Mr. Yugesh Shrestha called on NATTA Secretariat on 28th February,2012 and met NATTA President Mr.Pavitra Kumar Karki and the Office Bearer of the Executive Committee of NATTA. In the meeting Mr.Bellamy expressed that Hong Kong Dragon Airlines in Nepal was keen to work with NATTA to facilitate Fewa Lake Cleaning event in Pokhara on 3rd April'12NATTA President and Executives welcomed the idea and said that NATTA would be very happy to extend its support to the noble project as a partner. NATTA assured that it will do all possible to mobilize NATTA Regional Association in Pokhara to accomplish the project with resounding success.
Mr. Jerome Edou and officials from Base Camp Trekking and Expeditions visited NATTA Secretariat on 28th Feb'12 with a project to launch a campaign to declare Nepal's Trekking Areas and National Parks a Plastic Bag and Bottle Free Zone and requested for NATTA's support to translate this campaign into a reality and set the benchmark for responsible eco-tourism in the world.NATTA President Mr. Pavitra Kumar Karki welcomed the idea and appreciated the initiation. He said that NATTA has been and will ever remain supportive to such programs to make the environment clean and healthy, which is vital to the growth of Tourism Industry
MOTCA on the request of NATTA has sent a letter to Tourism Industry Division on 23rd March '12 to do the needful to provide permission to ply tourist buses in the Pokhara-Lumbini-Pokhara route. NATTA had approached MOTCA for this in view of Visit Year-2012.
A Joint meeting of NATTA Heritage and Environment Committee and Media and Publicity Committee was held at NATTA Secretariat last Friday, the 23rd of March to discuss on the module of the proposed Half-day Seminar on "Problems of Heritage Conservation and suggested Measures to solve them."The date for the event is yet to be finalised. More than 150 Participants will reflect on the contents of a working paper on the given topic and will prepare a list of recommendations to be sent to the concerned authorities for implementation
NATTA Secretary General, Mr. Achyut Guragain and NATTA Heritage Committee Co-coordinator Mr. Shyam Madan K.C called on the Officials at Kathmandu Metropolis on 14th March in the Morning and discussed about NATTA's upcoming Half-day Seminar on "Problems of Heritage Conservations and Measures to solve them." Secretary General Mr. Guragain apprised the Metropolis regarding the problem of Tourist Bus Park in the city and also sought their co-operation to find a new area which could be developed as Tourist Bus Park. He also suggested metropolis officials that NATTA could assist them in selling out the heritage site entry tickets to NATTA Tour operators throughout Secretariat. The modus operandi is yet to be finalized.
NATTA President Mr. Pravitra Kumar Karki and other tourism sector entrepreneurs called on Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation Mr. Lokendra Bista at the Ministry recently.During the meeting, entrepreneurs expressed their concern over the delaying in the fulfillment of the CEO of Nepal Tourism Board (NTB). They said that due to this vacancy NTB would be badly affected. In response, Minister Bista assured that the vacancy at NTB would be fulfilled at the earliest. The other participants were representatives from Hotel Association Nepal, Trekking Agencies of Association of Nepal (TAAN), and Nepal Association of Rafting Agents (NARA), CEO NATTA Prof. Dr. Hari Sarmah had also accompanied the delegation.
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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
