The sustainable international visitors growth of last year in Nepal has continued in the first month of this year too, recording a 27.7 per cent growth in arrivals in January.

“The first month of the year witnessed 42,031 international arrivals compared to the same month last year, when 32,914 tourists visited Nepal,” according to the figures released by Immigration Office, Tribhuwan International Airport.

All the regions have shown positive growths in the first month led by the key tourist generating markets India and China, that recorded positive growth of 29.2 per cent and 107 per cent.

In the SAARC region, arrivals from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka registered positive growth by 34.4 per cent and 112.5 per cent respectively but the arrivals from Pakistan declined by 29.6 per cent.

“In aggregate the South Asian segment has registered a positive growth of 27.7 per cent,” it added.

Arrivals from Asia — except South Asia — also recorded positive growth of 42 per cent in aggregate with all markets showing improved performance except Malaysia.

Similarly, the arrivals from Japan, Singapore, Thailand and South Korea increased by 6.4 per cent, 5.2 per cent, 8.4 per cent, and 7.9 per cent respectively, though Malaysia registered a negative growth of 13.5 per cent.

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