Industry & Tourism
July 2026 arrivals from China beat July 2019 for the first time, even as Nepal's overall foreign arrivals grew by just 2.3%.
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 5, 2026
Nepal's tourism numbers for July 2026 look unremarkable at first glance: 71,775 foreign arrivals, up a modest 2.3 percent on the year before. Buried inside that flat headline is a milestone nobody in Kathmandu flagged at the time — arrivals from China just…
Travel Himalaya Nepal · News
The broader pattern in the data cuts against the usual assumption that Nepal's growth is purely an India story. Arrivals from South Asia actually fell 11.9% in July, while the rest of Asia — China chief among it — grew 33%. Western arrivals held steady rather…
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