Visitor arrivals in March 2009 -- by air only -- suggest that the global financial crisis has started hurting Nepal's tourism sector hard.
The figures released by the Immigration Office, Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), reveal that arrival figures in the month of March 2009 -- compared to the same month last year -- decreased by 17.6 per cent to drop to 33,005.
In the South Asian market, only Sri Lanka and Bangladesh registered growth by 12.3 per cent and 29.6 per cent respectively.
India and Pakistan witnessed negative growth of 24.7 per cent and 6.3 per cent respectively in March, challenging the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) assertion that it has been doing promotional activities in various Indian cities.
Other Asian countries Thailand and Singapore maintained an upward trend with 132.3 per cent and 50.2 per cent growth respectively. However, arrivals from Japan, South Korea and Malaysia negative growth by 19 per cent, 34.2 pe rcent and 7.1 per cent respectively.
There has been a nominal decline of 0.8 per cent in arrivals from China which reflects the unfailing economic growth of the country compared to other tourist generating markets. The entire European and Oceania regions registered negative growth of 19.8 per cent and 11.6 per cent respectively in comparison to the same month last year.
Likewise arrivals from Canada and United States of America, registering negative growths of nine per cent and 10.5 per cent respectively The global recession is attributed -- like the Asian Development Outloot 2009 has suggested -- to the decline in tourist arrivals worldwide as travelling is determined by disposable income, travel budgets and consumer confidence.
United Nations World Tourism Organisation ( UNWTO ) expects international tourism to stagnate or even decline slightly by a negative one to two per cent throughout 2009.
A total of 32,945 foreign tourists departed from TIA in March while the number of Nepali arrivals stood at 44,607 and departures at 46,051 via TIA during the month.
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