Our Chief Guest Hon'ble Mr. Pradeep Kumar Gyawali
Representatives from IMTA
Delegates from Different Countries
Dignitaries from Diplomatic Mission
President and Office Bearers of Tourism Related Associations,
Our Invitees
Friends of Media
Distinguished Guests,
Ladies and gentlemen,
First of all, I, on behalf of our association Nepal Association of Tour & Travel Agents (NATTA), would like to extend our happiest Greetings that brought you all to the country of the Great Himalayas and the country where Apostle of Peace (Lord Buddha) was born.
I would, like to extend our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to Honorable Mr. Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, Foreign Minister of Affairs for having kindly accepting our invitation to grace this occasion as the Chief Guest besides his eventful schedules for this momentous program. Your Excellency, we are indebted to your good self for the Inauguration and highly appreciate for your selfless and profound dedication towards the country.
Today, we are celebrating 12th International Sagarmatha Day and I feel this is an opportunity for us to which is directly connected with National and Regional prosperity. Thanks to friends of International Mountain Tourism Alliance (IMTA) who intended to choose their first host country Nepal for their international organizational event as International Mountain Tourism Day on this glorious date of 29th May. NATTA is indeed a proud council member of IMTA.
Needless to say Nepal is a country situated on the lap of majestic Himalayan range to the north of the Republic of India and to the south of People’s Republic of China and has Mount Everest, 8848 m, the highest mountain in the world. Nepal is the best place on the earth in terms of natural and cultural diversities having abundant resources and is the land of living goddess. Nepal can be a most convenient place for meeting, conferences, and events due to its pleasant climate, centrally located place between South Asia, North Asia, East Asia & Central Asia, and have easy access for all the people from the countries in the regions. Nepal is the best destination for adventure, Sports, medical and education tourism. Appreciating this diversities, Mountain Tourism adds shine to our tourism industry and attracts abundant travelers to visit Nepal for adventurous acts.
Now that Nepalese tourism fraternity has adopted a goal of two million tourist arrivals to Nepal by 2020, celebrating Visit Nepal Year (VNY) 2020. For this, NATTA is in course of formulating strategic plans with most suitable marketing strategies. I believe the celebration of International Mountain Tourism Day and exchange of insights shared in the forum today will be a grand success and facilitate to VNY 2020. Also, we all are quite optimistic that this event will be supportive in fetching a propitious tourism business in Nepal.
I must praise Government of Nepal is also actively putting every effort for tourism promotion.
Well, I am indeed very much grateful to be a part of this prestigious congregation and feel honored and privilege to deliver in nut shell about NEPAL and her tourism potentialities and resources that have been spoken so high of, by our valuable delegates.
It would be rather be immodest on my part, if I fail to extend my special thanks to Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Nepal Tourism Board and friends of tourism fraternity who were so helpful to us in making this program a historic one.
With these few words of Greetings, I welcome and express gratefulness to everyone in this program and I hope, during the discourse to follow in the Sessions, you will be able to collect lot of information on Mountain Tourism among different countries.
Lastly, NATTA is always ready to extend all needful co-operation for the growth of tourism industry.
Thanking You!
