Tourist Arrivals in Nepal up in January

Foreign tourist arrivals in Nepal grew in January, the Nepal Tourism Board said on Sunday.

As many as 79,991 foreigners visited Nepal in the reporting month, up from 79,100 over the same period last year.

The tourism revival was 98 percent compared with the number in 2019, when 81,273 tourists arrived in the first month of the year, Mani Raj Lamichhane, director of the board, told Xinhua.

Indians, Chinese and Americans were the main sources of tourists for Nepal in January.

Tourism is a major foreign currency earner and job creator for Nepal, and the South Asian country welcomed 1,147,567 foreign tourists in 2024.