476,000 tourists visit Nepal in six months: NTB

KATHMANDU: A total of 476,000 tourists visited Nepal in the six months from January to June in the current fiscal year 2022/23, according to the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB). This number of tourists is 97.79% higher than that in 2022 during the same period, and 16.93% lower than that in 2019 when 536,058 tourists visited the country in the six months from January to June. In the following years, the tourism industry was marred by Covid 19 pandemic that broke out towards the end of 2019, with the number of visiting tourists decreasing. During the same period, the influx of visiting tourists dropped to 220,815 in 2020, 58,058 in 2021, and 240,901 in 2022. READ ALSO:

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