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The Pokhara Metropolitan City has accorded priority to promote local tourism in the changing context in the three-year periodic plan of the town. The plan brought with the slogan of ‘Prosperous Touristic Pokhara’ has identified the tourism as a means of serving the vision for sustainable and rapid development of the town.
The plan has focused on formulating and implementing tourism policy and code of conduct to promote local tourism further and develop the city known for its touristic significance into a major tourism hub.
Besides this, literature, art and culture, and entrepreneurship development are other issues focused on in the plan. Furthermore, the Metropolis has promised to play a leading role in the conservation and promotion of languages, art, culture, religions, and cultural heritage.
The plan presents developing the tourism business differently in the changed context and promoting the city into a destination of modern tourism and a center of knowledge, art, and culture.
“The three-year plan aims to transform the Metropolis significantly with the participation of people and advance towards the building of a socialism-oriented society as envisaged by the Constitution,” said Pokhara Metropolis Urban Planning Commission’s vice chair Dr. Ramchandra Lamichhane.
According to him, the periodic plan has emphasized the goals of the blue lakes, rich culture, safe city, scientific perspective, and resilient and inclusive physical infrastructures. The periodic plan prepared by the Commission incorporates 35 topics related to the plan and its thematic sectors.
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