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Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), in a bid to promote tourist destinations of the eastern region and attract Indian tourists, is set to organise the 'Eastern Tourism Mart' (ETM). Organising a press meet here today, NTB informed about the event that is being held on March 25 for three days in Dharan in coordination with the Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City.
The three-day event is facilitating business-to-business meetings between tourism and hospitality of Nepal and India where Indian tour operators will discuss with Nepali tourism entrepreneurs representatives from 14 districts of Province 1 about the promotion of tour packages.
The event will act as connectivity among tourism entrepreneurs of Nepal and India, which will boost the tourism of Nepal. NTB, aiming to revive the COVID-battered tourism of Nepal, has included the 'Regional Travel Mart' in its policy and activities of the current fiscal year 2021-22.
However, the event which was supposed to commence at the beginning of the fiscal has to be postponed for several months due to the COVID pandemic. Before this, the three-day event titled 'Western Travel Mart' which started on March 7 in Nepalgunj concluded with fanfare.
According to Regmi, 51 tourism entrepreneurs from India attended the event, in saw a business of around Rs 30 million within the three days. Moreover, he also informed that with the help of those Indian tour operators, the hotels had received bookings from 750 people worth Rs 60 million. Likewise, the NTB is planning to promote the far-west by branding 'Beautiful Farwest: Sukla to Api Saipal in Farwest Travel Mart from April 8 to 10 in Dhangadi
