Members of Chinese familiarization team said on Friday that they were surprised to see everything normal here despite supply disruptions and the earthquake.
Chinese actress and entrepreneuer Amy Zhou, who is also popular as Weibo Queen, said Chinese people have a perception that Nepal is totally paralyzed. “But it is not so. I found everything normal,” she told media persons on Friday. “With documentation, skill and resource intact, the entire heritage sites would be built within a few months. Though some tangible heritage monuments are destroyed for a while, the intangible heritage of the spirit and the people will live forever,” she said at an interaction session organized by Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) in coordination with the World Bank Group.
“This is the best season to come back to Nepal. I have collected beautiful memories for life,” Zhou said.
According to NTB, the team visited different tourist sites in Kathmandu Valley, Pokhara, Bandipur and Chitwan. “Members of the group expressed deep satisfaction, emphasizing that the impressions they carried before they landed in Kathmandu did not match up to the amazing natural and cultural experience they had visiting the four different places,” NTB said in a statement.
Sunil Sharma, officiating director of NTB, appreciated the visit, noting that the visit was special as it coincided with the 60th anniversary year of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Nepal and China. He also hoped that such promotional endeavors would increase Chinese tourist arrivals to Nepal in the coming days.
Similarly, Taneem Ahad, project manager from World Bank Group, spoke to the group emphasizing the importance of their presence in Nepal in the present context with the hope that the participants would disseminate fact-based positive information about Nepal in China and be the first of the mediators in bringing back Chinese tourists to Nepal after the April earthquake.
Nepal Tourism News Source: Myrepublica
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