The 41st World Tourism Day 2020 is being observed with the slogan “Tourism and Rural Development” emphasizing on the tourism sector’s huge potentiality of steering the economic development to bridge the gap between the people who come from small communities and big cities on September 27th, 2020.
To observe the day, the Nepal Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation and Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) jointly organized a tree plantation program in the Manjushree Park in Chobar hill, Kathmandu in the early morning on September 27. Inaugurating the program, Minister for Culture Tourism and Civil Aviation Mr. Yogesh Bhattarai planted various species of tree saplings on the premises of the park. Speaking at the program, Minister for Culture Tourism and Civil Aviation Bhattarai said that the Chobar hill can be developed as one of the attractive tourism destinations in Kathmandu so that the people living in the valley and nearby surrounding areas get engaged in recreational activities and enjoy the nature and environment.
He expressed his commitment to working in joint collaboration and coordination with the federal government and local stakeholders for the development of Chobar hill and integrating it along with the development of other tourism sites in the valley. Minister also shared his plan of launching strategies for the survival of the tourism industry on a phase-wise basis so that the negative impact of COVID-19 and losses incurred by the businesses can be recovered. Minister Bhattarai added that the promotion of domestic tourism is one of the strategies to be adopted for the survival of the industry by the year 2021. The program was attended by the Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Mr. Kedar Bahadur Adhikary, high-ranking officials of the Ministry, representatives of NTB among others.
