Industry & Tourism
Nepal Tourism Board's fresh mid-year data show 621,624 foreign arrivals in the first half of 2026 and an accelerating June — here's exactly where…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 31, 2026
India sent Nepal more tourists in June alone than the United States, China, Bangladesh and Australia sent combined. That's not a rounding trick — it's the headline number buried inside Nepal Tourism Board's freshly released mid-year figures, and it says more…
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Nepal Tourism Board's month-by-month data for the first half of 2026 show a market that grew almost every month: 92,573 arrivals in January, 105,441 in February, a peak of 120,516 in March, 107,934 in April, 102,626 in May, and 91,363 in June — a total of…
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Nepal Tourism Board director Mani Raj Lamichhane confirmed the scale of India's lead directly: “Indian tourists accounted for more than 45 per cent of total arrivals in June.” The rest of June's top five reads like a familiar list, but the gap to India is the…
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What this means for you If you're weighing when to book an autumn 2026 trek, this data points the same direction our own booking calendar does: arrivals are running noticeably ahead of last year, and Nepal's tightest windows — Everest Base Camp and Annapurna…
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