Kathmandu: As per the government statistics, around 60 percent of the total foreign tourists used to visit Nepal’s conservation and reserve areas.
For the tourists visiting the Nepal, National parks and conservation areas have become the major tourism destination. As per the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, total 1,097 million domestic and foreign tourists visited conservation areas in fiscal year 2081/82.
586,074 were domestic tourists, Director General of the Department, Dr Buddhi Sagar Poudel shared that out of 1.097 million tourists while 511,762 tourists were from SAARC countries and Abroad.
As entry fee from the tourists, the country had collected Rs 1 billion and 5.2 million in revenue. In fiscal year 2081/82 total 346644 tourists visited Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park, 2,78,113 tourists toured the Annapurna Conservation Area and 249,956 tourists visited Chitwan National Park.
As per the data, similarly, the lowest number of tourists, 229, had visited the Api Nampa Conservation Area during the period. There are 13 national parks in Nepal– Chitwan, Bardiya, Langtang, Rara, Banke, Sagarmatha, Shey-Phoksundo, Shivapuri Nagarjun, Makalu Barun, Khapted, Shuklaphanta, Parsa and Chhayanath.
Similarly, Krishnasar, Kanchanjangha, Manaslu, Gaurishankar and Annapurna and Api Nampa are conservation areas while Dhorpatan Reserve and Koshitappu Wildlife Reserve are reserve areas. Conservation areas have occupied 23.39 percent of the country’s total area.
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