Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) conducted sales mission in three Indian cities of Lucknow, Kanpur and Varanasi from May 10 to 13. During the Sales Mission around 120 tour operators and 60 media representatives were updated and apprised about the tourism of Nepal with special focus on the offer to the Indian markets along with programs of NTY-2011. A wide range of products catering to all segments – Pilgrimage for old aged, Soft adventure for youths and leisure activities for the middle – aged were on offer. NTB announced Nepal’s government decision to implement one window policy to ease surface transportation for Indian tourist vehicles to Nepal during the mission.

Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) along with two private sector travel companies participated at the Guangzhou International Travel Fair – 2011 (GITF-2011) in China. The fair was held at Jinhan Exhibition Center in Guangzhou, from March 24 to 26, 2011.  More than 500 exhibitors representing 40 countries participated at the fair.  Destination Nepal, with main focus on Nepal Tourism Year 2011 was promoted at the fair. The Nepal stall attracted more than 10,000 visitors, 500 travel agents and tour operators during the fair. On the last day of the fair, NTB was awarded with the ‘Best Supporter Award’.

NTB along with three private Nepalese travel companies participated at  the 18th Moscow International Travel & Tourism Exhibition (MITT) held in Moscow’s Expocentr’ Krasnaya Presnya Fairgrounds,  from March 16-19, 2011. Detailed information of tour packages to Nepal focusing NTY-2011 was provided to the visitors as well as to the buyers. MITT is the largest travel and tourism exhibition in Russia showcasing over 3,000 companies from 120 countries and regions.

Nepal Luxury Tour

Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) along with Nepal Airlines Corporation participated at the MATTA (Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents) tourism fair held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 11th to 13th March 2011. Destination Nepal and Nepal Tourism Year 2011 was promoted at the fair. Visitors to the Nepal stall mostly had queries about air connectivity & fares, special packages, tourism activities during NTY-2011 etc.  The fair, organized by Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents, and supported and endorsed by Ministry of Tourism in Malaysia, is Malaysia’s top consumer travel exhibition.

Nepal Tourism Board along with 23 travel companies from Nepal participated at the world’s biggest travel fair, ITB held in the German city of Berlin from March 9 to 13, 2011. Nepal and Nepal Tourism Year 2011 was promoted at the fair as “the birth place of Lord Buddha and the cradle of Buddhism”. The Nepal delegation organized a press conference which was attended by more than 60 German media representatives and tour operators. ITB Berlin 2011 had 11000 exhibitors from 188 counties.A total of 110,000 trade people and 700plus media professionals from 92 countries including a total of 170,000 people visited the trade fair.