Nepal targets China second largest tourism market

Nepal has targeted northern neighbor China as a second largest significant market for its tourism industry after southern neighbor India.

Nepal has projected China as its second largest market, at the time when country has launched a national tourism campaign "Nepal Tourism Year-2011 (NTY)" to attract more than one million tourists in an international level.

Officials at Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) said that they have outlined India and China a significant market due to their booming economy and closeness with Nepal.

At the time Nepal is preparing to greet one million international tourists in the country, it is also mulling plans to allure 101,324 Chinese outbound tourists whereas it has estimated to welcome 262,588 tourists from India in the year 2011.

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