On January 10, 2021, Ministry for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA) invited tourism related private stakeholders for the interactions at Singhadurbar.
On the interaction, tourism stakeholders shared their concerns and difficulties as the tourism sector has been suffering and been closed for almost a year due to pandemic. They demanded the government to prepare standards to facilitate the tourism sector and urged to make provisions for the revival of the tourism sector. Also, entrepreneurs demanded to work on the promotion of domestic tourism.
President of NATTA, Mr. Achyut Guragain, taking a moment requested for the coordination with Ministries; Ministry of Health and Population, Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Home Affairs regarding the foreign tourists who want to visit Nepal. Mr. Guragain also stressed on the non-requirement of quarantine to the tourists coming to Nepal following the health protocols.
Newly appointed Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Mr. Bhanubhakta Dhakal, said that he will have a positive role to take the lead in fulfilling the entrepreneurs’ legitimate demands to the best of his ability and the state would do its utmost to resolve the problems of the tourism sector. He said that the policy should be discussed extensively and the opinion and advice of all stakeholders should be taken into consideration.