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A total of 15,776 visitors arrived to Nepal by air in February 2006. Compared to the visitors` number of same month last year, it was a growth of 12.7%, a net addition of 1,775 visitors. Arrivals from…
A total of 15,776 visitors arrived to Nepal by air in February 2006. Compared to the visitors` number of same month last year, it was a growth of 12.7%, a net addition of 1,775 visitors. Arrivals from India recorded a growth of 34.5% while the non-Indian arrivals grew up by 6%. This was stated in the provisional figures provided today by Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, quoting Immigration Office, TIA.
Compared to last February, arrivals from various markets have shown mixed performance. There has been an overall growth from Asian segment as arrivals were up from SAARC countries (31.8%), Japan (129.9%), South Korea (66.6%) and Taiwan (169.1%). Markets to decline from Asia were China (-3.2%), Malaysia (-34.6%) and Thailand (-7.8%). The European market in itself declined by 13.5% contributed by major loss from UK (-47.4%), despite the growth in arrivals from France (8.2%), Germany (7.2%) and other markets like Austria (29.3%), Belgium (17.3%), Israel (66.7%), Spain (63.1%) and Switzerland (15.7%). Danish (-4.5%), Italian (-20.7%) and Dutch (-29.2%) markets declined during the month. On the other hand arrivals from USA and Australia both went up by 2.4% and 9.4% respectively.
February could not remain a normal month in terms of arrival. Visitors` arrival started picking up only from the third week of the month. During the first two weeks there were excessive cancellations due to which arrivals came down. Gradually it picked up and the growth was to be seen in the end of the month. Arrivals would have gone up by at least 50% in February had there been no cancellations. However the apparent growth during the month came because of the low base figure of February 2005.
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