KATHMANDU, April 2: Around 100,000 tourists visited Nepal in March this year.
According to the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), 99,426 visitors entered Nepal in the month. Of them, 33,454 were from the SAARC nations, 15, 643 from other Asian nations, 23,265 from Europe and 3,958 others arrived from the countries of the Oceania region.
Similarly, Nepal welcomed 1,707 nationals from Canada, 9557 from the US and 10,375 others from the Middle-East.
A Promising Sign of Recovery
The highest number of tourists had arrived from India and they make-up 25,911 and this figure was 15,013 in the corresponding period in 2022.
Similarly, the tourist arrivals from the US in March were almost double in the corresponding period last year. In 2022, a total of 4,896 tourists from the US had visited.
The highest number of tourists to Nepal were from India, the US, the UK, Germany and Sri Lanka. The data shows that Nepal's tourism industry is on the path of recovery following COVID-19 pandemic.
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