Nepal-Europe Travel Summit 2017 Successfully ConcludesWednesday, April 19th, 2017

WARSAW, Poland, March 23, 2017 - Nepal Tourism Board(NTB) successfully completed the Europe Sales Mission 2017. The Sales Mission titled as “Nepal-Europe Travel Summit 2017” was held in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt & Munich in Germany, Prague in Czech Republic and Warsaw in Poland from March 14-22, 2017.

The Mission was a continued promotional effort of NTB after the fruitful presence at the world’s biggest travel show “ITB 2017”. Europe has always been a very potential market for Nepal as there are more adventure lovers, explorers, and cultural enthusiasts. NTB’s Mission is recognized as a very effective and timely designed program to connect and educate the trade and media in each city as there had been a long gap of promotion from Nepal and especially after the Earthquake everyone was keen to know about the situation post the calamity.

In every session with the Media and Tour Operators, NTB CEO Mr. Deepak Raj Joshi, whetting their queries and concerns, highlighted mainly on three things; 1. About the recent positive changes in Nepal’s tourism with new development and trends, 2. About Nepal being back and open for business to all, and 3. About the change on stereotyped Nepal’s image confined to hardcore adventure, trekking and mountains where as the Destination Nepal has lot more on offer having equally rich both cultural and natural experiences. Mr. Joshi also presented Nepal as “The Destination” of the world for experiential travel segment as the visitors are opting more for rich and variety of experiences rather than mere traditional luxury packages and comfort.

Apart from regular Sales Missions, NTB also organized “Destination Education Workshop” for selected tour operators who are really interested to sell Nepal. A total of 62 tour operators and travel professionals were educated by giving the brief insight on – recent facts, new destinations and tourism attractions, new trends in visitors’ choice and on how to connect and sell Nepal to maximize their benefit.

The first of its kind of programs, NTB updated the invitees with small and basic information in the education session to the trade as some of them were incompletely aware of the destination. At the end of the session, the participants were requested to promote Nepal more and awarded a certificate of appreciation by the CEO.

The second part of the program was the Business session where the 13 companies from Nepal interacted with the local tour operators in each place. All together there were around 250 participants from the trade from Germany, Czech and Poland while around 40 came from the media and travel professionals. With participation from big companies like Hauser, FTI, Tui in most of the programs, Nepal team is highly encouraged and confident to have more quality visitors in near future.

The success of the ITB Fair and Sales Mission has motivated NTB more to continue with more aggressive promotion in Europe with more visibility among the consumers and the trade.

The Nepal delegation was led by Mr. Deepak Raj Joshi-CEO, NTB and Ms. Shradha Shrestha-Sr. Officer along with 12 companies from the Nepalese private sector; Aarya Village Travels, Around the Himalayas Treks, Barahi Hospitality Group, Crystal Adventure Tours, Nature Trails, Snowy Horizon Treks, Responsible Treks, The Explore Nepal Group, Sea Links Travels, Rainbow Travels and Vardan Travels.