International Activities

Nepal Association of Tour Operators (NATO) has maintained a close and cordial relationship with number of international tourism associations and thus has organised several programmes in their support. Signing Memorandum of Understanding with the international tour operators for mutual cooperation has helped promote country’s image mostly in the South East Asian countries and the European countries. The major international activities of the NATO are beefed below.

      1. Organising Country Workshops and trade shows 

NATO has successfully conducted number of country workshops and trade shows for its members using strategic partnership techniques to build linkages and business opportunities for its member organizations, the most recent being a very high profile South East Asia Road Show jointly organized with PATA Nepal Chapter and Nepal Tourism Board.

      2. Destination promotion activities 

In co-ordination with the Royal Nepalese Embassy, UK, NTB and PATA UK Chapter organised Destination Nepal Evening in Royal Nepalese Embassy in London on the 11th of February last year. Objective of the Nepal evening was to give a message that Nepal is a safe destination to visit and promote its unparalleled tourism products in Britain.

      3. Participation in international seminars  

NATO has time and again participated in the international seminars. It also represented Nepal in several functions organised in London and Tokyo last year to mark the Destination Nepal campaign 2002-03 and Golden Jubilee Celebration of First ascent of Mt. Everest. The NATO has also organised a promotion trips to these countries in coordination from the Nepal Tourism board, Nepalese embassies and the RNAC.

In a similar event last year, the Hon. Secretary of NATO Mr. Basant Raj Mishra presented paper on mountain Tourism in the event organised to mark the Mt Everest Golden Jubilee Celebrations at London and Paris.

      4. Other activities          

We are currently finalizing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Japan Association of Travel Agents. We have proposed for a MoU with DRV, the Association of German Tour Operators. The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding would allow members of each association to work jointly to attain mutually identifiable goals and exploring business opportunities and profits.

NATO has been producing weekly newsletter for the last two and half years. The newsletter has a subscription to around 4,000 individuals and institutions. This newsletter is issued every Monday and covers the tourism related news for that week.