Kathmandu, April 8 (IANS) Nepal’s economic growth is projected to slow significantly in the current fiscal year 2025–26, weighed down by the over-a-month-long US-Iran war and the lingering effects of the Gen Z movement in September last year, the World Bank said in a report on Wednesday. Real gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to moderate to 2.3 per cent in fiscal year 2025–26, which ends in mid-July, according to the World Bank’s biannual flagship report, Nepal Development Upda…
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Kathmandu, April 1 (IANS) Nepal has witnessed the impact of the ongoing West Asia crisis as the number of foreign tourist arrivals from Europe, the Americas, West Asia, and Africa has dropped sharply in March, the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) said on Wednesday. The conflict has been ongoing since February 28, when the US and Israel launched a military attack on Iran. Its fallout is being felt across the world, with travel restrictions and rising prices affecting the entire global economy.Usually, N…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Major political parties in the fray for the March 5 Parliamentary election in Nepal, are expressing concern that the country – once a popular global tourist destination – has not been able to touch the pre-Covid number of visitors. Hence, they have pledged to work towards shoring up tourist arrivals to the nation, say media reports.“Nepal has been receiving just over 1 million tourists annually over the past three years, and arrivals have yet to return to the pre-C…
Kathmandu, Feb 1 (IANS) Nepal made a hopeful start in the tourism sector in January, with tourist arrivals jumping by more than 15 per cent year-on-year to 92,573, despite fears of a decline following political unrest in September last year, the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) said on Sunday. According to the NTB, this figure is also 14 per cent higher than in January 2019, the period before the COVID-19 pandemic.Following the GenZ protests, which resulted in the deaths of 77 people and the destructio…
Kathmandu, Jan 1 (IANS) Nepal received over 1.15 million foreign tourists in 2025, a slight rise compared to 2024, the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) said on Thursday. The Himalayan country welcomed 1,158,459 foreign tourists in 2025, compared to 1,147,548 in 2024, registering an increase of just one per cent, according to the NTB.Despite the marginal rise in foreign tourist arrivals, the recovery failed to match pre-Covid levels. Nepal had welcomed 1,197,191 foreign tourists in 2019, before the pand…