The local tourism entrepreneurs have gone to Siliguri, India for publicizing Pokhara in the north-eastern region of India.
The tourism entrepreneurs have reached Siliguri in the context of facilitating trade among the entrepreneurs between Nepal and India, and with the growing number of Indian visitors from the north-east parts visiting Pokhara every year.
The Pokhara Tourism Council has been organizing such promotional tours of tourism entrepreneurs every year with the aim of further promoting tourism relations with the north-eastern region of India.
The local tourism entrepreneurs will also participate in the Bengal Travel Mart (BTM) to be organized in Siliguri from today. The mart is organized by the Council and promoted by Nepal Tourism Board. The information about this was shared in a program organized in Siliguri on Monday.
On the occasion, Manager of Nepal Tourism Board's Pokhara Office, Surya Thapaliya had shared information on the tourism in Pokhara and Nepal. He believed that the promotional program would be beneficial both for Nepal and India.
First vice-president of NATTA Western Region Association, Sanjaya Kant Sigdel, said that a large number of visitors from the north-east region of India including Siliguri, Dooars, Gangtok, Sikkim, Darjeeling, Manipur, Assam, among other places come to Nepal through the eastern transit point Kakadbhitta and other transit points, every year.
