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Efforts on Agro-Ecotourism Promotion
• National Tourism Policy, 2065
• Guidelines for Homestay, 2067
• The government envisages the Year “2020” as a campaign to boost annual tourist arrivals to 2 million.
• The campaign foresees the Agro tourism concept as Niche-based tourism.
• The effort has also set an ambitious target to increase employment in the tourism sector to 1 million.
• Vision follows Nepal Tourism Year 2011 which has been described as being a moderately successful campaign for being able to partly restore Nepal’s tourism image deformed by the insurgency that lasted from 1996-2006.
