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Overview

The working area of Tourism Industry Division after the re-structuring of the Ministry in 2055 B.S. and 2057 B.S. has been specified as follows :

The work relating to tourist standard hotels and restaurants.
Travel, trekking, rafting and other business related to tourism.
Mountaineering, mountain tourism and all adventure tourism related work.
The work related with the establishment of sound relationship with the private sectors concerning to the field of tourism.

Similarly, this Division deals in issuing of permission to run tourism business, renew the permission, and to regulate it. It also regulates the mountaineering permission, mountaineering related rules & regulations and decisions. It also functions to provide information on the tourism industries through the six District Tourism Offices, based in Kakadbhitta, Janakpur, Birgunj, Pokhara, Bhairahawa and Nepalgunj.

Manpower
There are 60 personnel working in this Tourism Industry Division including 1 Joint Secretary, 2 Under Secretaries, 4 Section Officers ,1 Police Inspector and other assistants. Similarly there are 33 personnel working in six different tourism offices in six districts.

Sections running under the Tourism Industry Division :

Hotels, Restaurant and Travel Section
Trekking and Mountaineering Section
Tourist Police Unit

For further information :
Tourism Industry Division
Bhrikutimandap, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel : 977 1 4256228 or 4256232, or 4247037
Fax No. : 977 1 4227281
E-mail : info@tourism.gov.np