Tourists arrivals in Nepal via air increased by 15.8 per cent in April 2009 as compared to the same month last year despite decline global tourist movement to financial recession.
Nepal received a total of 37,819 tourists via air, while the number during the same period last year was 32,665.
Visitor arrivals from all the countries in South Asia, except for Japan, recorded a positive growth. Arrivals from India increased by around 27 per cent. Similarly, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh witnessed positive growths of 61.2 per cent, 29.4 per cent and 1.3 per cent, respectively.
Other Asian source markets - China, Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea and Singapore - regained the upward trend with 27.3 per cent, 68.5 per cent, 20.9 percent, 73 per cent and 61.3 per cent of growth, respectively.
The entire Europe and Oceania region registered a robust growth of 23.3 per cent and 16 per cent respectively, in comparison to the same month last year. However, France and the Netherlands registered a negative growth of 3.7 per cent and 9.4 per cent respectively.
Arrivals from Canada and the USA also recorded a positive growth of 20.2 per cent and 5.8 per cent respectively.
