Entrepreneurs emphasize on promoting Nepal as a spiritual tourism destination
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Kathmandu: Tourism entrepreneurs have emphasized on the need to develop spiritual tourism to attract more tourists in the country.
Addressing an interaction program on ‘Visit Nepal Year 2020 – Promoting Nepal as Spiritual Tourism Destination ‘organized by Nepal Tourism Development Entrepreneur Association, Director General of Department of Tourism Danduraj Ghimire urged all the stakeholders to concentrate on developing packages of spiritual tourism.
Senior entrepreneur Bikram Pandey Kajii stressed on planned development of Buddhist circuit to attract more than 80 million Buddhists to Lumbini.
On the occasion, 1st Vice President of Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents Achyut Guragain , Kanchan Ghimire of Art of Living , Suman Ghimire of Nepal Tourism Board , and Achyut Sigdel of NTDEA highlighted on importance of spiritual tourism in the country.
Nirajan Tiwari, President of Nepal Tourism Development Entrepreneur Association, urged the government to focus on infrastructure development of spiritual tourism destinations.
According to Sage Knowledge, religious tourism focuses on the visiting of religious sites, monuments or destinations, with the primary aim of engaging with or intensifying a specific faith, while spiritual tourism aims to explore the elements of life which lie beyond the self and contribute to body-mind-spirit balance and these may or may not have an affiliation to religion.
July 8, 2019
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