Nepal : Tourist arrivals down in 2021
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Kathmandu: Nepal received 150 ,962 international visitors both by air and land routes in the year 2021. The tourist arrival figure was 230,085 in 2020 and 11,97,191 in 2019.
According to the Department of Immigration, a total of 150962 visitors came by air and land routes from January to December 2021. Nepal welcomed the highest number of tourists from India last year, the largest tourist source for the country since long.
Tourist arrivals from India in the year 2021 was 64673, almost 43 per cent of total tourist arrivals in the country, whereas the number of Chinese tourists visiting Nepal was 6196 in 2021.
A total of 209,611 Indian tourists visited Nepal while 169,543 Chinese tourists visited Nepal in 2019. The tourist arrivals have decreased from both the countries in the year 2020 and 2021 due to effects of COVID-19 pandemic.
Nepal received 71, 610 tourists from five South Asian countries – Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Bhutan and Sri Lanka in 2021.
Likewise, arrivals from the United States were 22,853 in 2021, whereas the arrival figure from United Kingdom was 8,680 last year.
The European arrivals have increased slightly in comparison to the arrival figure of 2020. More than 25,000 tourists visited Nepal from different European countries in 2021.
Top 10 international tourist arrivals – 2021
India 64,673
USA 22,853
UK 8680
China 6,196
Bangladesh 5044
Germany 2,931
France 2,829
Australia 2475
Canada 2438
Russia 2107
2 January , 2022
Image – Visitors at TIA ( Photo- Travel Biz News )
