Nepal launches Chinese language classes to help tourism

Kathmandu, Jul 19 Nepal and China have launched a program to offer free preparing to up to 200 tourism business people in Mandarin to attract more foreign visitors from China.

Chinese representative to Nepal Yu Hong today introduced another bunch of tourism business people will's identity prepared in the Chinese dialect in Kathmandu.

A gathering of 40 people, consisting of tour operators and tourism entrepreneurs, will be prepared amid the six-month program.

The classes being run at the activity of the Chinese embassy haven won't just advance Chinese visitors in Nepal, yet it will likewise fortify people-to-people relations amongst Nepal and China, Yu said.

The classes will be given at free of cost.

More than one billion Chinese tourists visited foreign nations between 2013-2016 and Nepal can tap the open door via preparing its tour operators in Chinese language, she said.

Nepal could produce USD 22 billion consistently if the nation can pull in one million Chinese travellers, she included.

Nepal presently pulls in 125,000 Chinese tourists every year and the number has been expanding consistently. Nepal is the third-biggest nation after India and Sri Lanka to get Chinese tourists.

"We are intending to train 200 tour operators and travel trade entrepreneurs in Chinese language inside the following five years, with the target to advancing Chinese visitors into Nepal, said Maniraj Lamichhane, director at Nepal Tourism Board.