KATHMANDU, May 21: Nepal Tourism Board has launched a tourism website in Chinese language in a bid to facilitate and attract Chinese tourists.

The NTB has developed this website to informed Chinese tourist about major tourist destination in Nepal.

Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Rabindra Adhikari launched the website and an infographic that features information about tourist sites of all seven provinces amid a program in the Capital today.

The website provides the information about tourist destinations, attractive pictures of religious places, temples, snow-capped mountains and rivers.

Speaking at a program, Minister Adhikari said the website would help attract more Chinese tourists in a context when inflow of Chinese tourists is increasing.

There is the need of the hour to increase influx of Chinese tourists to meet the target of tourism contributing 25 percents to Nepal’s gross domestic product within next 10 years, and the target of increasing the number of tourists to 5 million each year by 2030.

Other speakers like Secretary of the Ministry Krishna Prasad Devkota, Senior Director for the Board Nandani Thapa and Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Yu Hong viewed that the website would help Chinese tourists become more familiar with Nepali culture and environment, further strengthen people-to-people between Nepal and China and increase economic social partnership.

Stating that elections in May was not possible without putting an end to the current political deadlock, he emphasized on the need of ensuring the necessary constitutional and legal arrangement within the next few days.

He also made it clear that he was ready to make any sacrifice for a political consensus including resigning from his post.

The Prime Minister also stressed on practical enforcement of the spirit of the 12-point agreement reached between the then CPN (Maoist) and the seven party alliance for a political consensus.

Responding to telephone queries from listeners, the Prime Minister said the government was making all necessary effort to save the life of Amar Sunar, jailed in the United Arab Emirates.

According to the PM, the government was making utmost efforts to limit the loadshedding within 12 hours a day this winter.

He had talked to India about the import of 200MW electricity to address acute shortage here, PM Bhattarai said, adding that government was planning for making a path friendly to the disabled people inside Singh Durbar.

Similarly, he said due to the lack of full budget, salaries and allowances to civil servants have been delayed. If the President had issued the ordinance relating to the civil servants, all problems of the civil service could be solved, he argued.

Procedural complexities were delaying the appointment of the executive director at Nepal Tourism Board.

Likewise, he shared that government was planning to give two day holiday in government service to meet the international standard with better performance and enhanced capacity of civil servants. RSS