Thursday, December 26, 2019

Visit Nepal year 2020 will be inaugurated in Dasharath stadium

The government is planning to inaugurate the Visit Nepal Year 2020 (VNY2020) formally on January 1 as the national festival.
The VNY2020 campaign – with the goal of hosting 2 million tourists in the country – will be inaugurated by the President Bidhya Devi Bhandari at the Dasharath stadium, where Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli will also make a special address, confirmed Visit Nepal Year Secretariat.
“The chief ministers of all seven provinces will also be present on the occasion,” it informed, adding that the Visit Nepal Year will be inaugurated at the Nepali Embassy in foreign countries on January 7, while the Visit Nepal 2020 would be inaugurated through Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRN) in the countries, where there is no Nepali mission. “The government has invited tourism ministers and senior delegates of 31 countries on the inaugural ceremony.”
Media persons from some 40 countries – including India, China, Bangladesh, European countries – are also attending the Visit Nepal Year inauguration programme, according to the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Civil Aviation.
The Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), which is responsible for managing the visit of the journalists, is also planning some fam trips for the foreign media personals.
According to Visit Nepal Year 2020 National Programme Coordinator Suraj Baidya, the Visit Nepal Year inauguration programme will be another big international level programme to be organised in the country after the 13th South Asian Games, which concluded recently. “The secretariat has made all preparations for that purpose,” Baidya said, adding that the final preparations have been completed for the Visit Nepal Year 2020 inauguration. “The government will spend Rs 20 million for the inaugural programme.”
The government has recently approved Rs 617.4 million budget for the Visit Nepal Year campaign.

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