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Industry & Tourism
A hundred kilometres east of Kathmandu on the road to Tibet, a steel suspension bridge engineered only for bungee jumping has been dropping visitors 160 metres into the Bhote Koshi gorge for 27 years — the jump that started Nepal's adventure-sports industry.
Industry & Tourism
At 3,775 metres above Namche Bazaar, Sagarmatha Next turns Everest's decades of climbing waste into art — and it sits directly on the trail every Everest Base Camp trekker already walks.
Industry & Tourism
Applications opened this week for Tourism Expo Japan and World Travel Market London — the two trade floors where Nepal's tourism industry spends the next three months courting the agents and media who decide how you hear about a trek here.
Industry & Tourism
Every hour of altitude on the Everest trail adds a real cost to water, noodles and Wi-Fi — and it has nothing to do with tourists being an easy mark.
Industry & Tourism
Everest Base Camp and the Annapurna Circuit are seeing record numbers. Here's the verified visitor data on how crowded each region actually is, and four proven alternatives that deliver the same mountains with a fraction of the traffic.
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%.
Industry & Tourism
At Muktinath, a natural-gas flame flickers directly above a cold mountain spring — a geological quirk that Hindus and Buddhists have both worshipped for generations, and that modern trekkers walk right past.
Industry & Tourism
The Alta Via routes are the world's most comfortable hut-to-hut trek. Nepal invented the idea at twice the altitude, half the price. An honest comparison for 2026.
Industry & Tourism
An honest comparison for UK walkers — Ben Nevis, the 282 Munros and the West Highland Way against Everest Base Camp and Annapurna, with real elevations, days and costs.
Industry & Tourism
Ladakh's Markha Valley and the high desert around Leh are magnificent — but Stok Kangri is closed and you land at 3,500 m. Here's the honest, altitude-aware comparison with Nepal.
Industry & Tourism
Colorado has 58 summits above 14,000 feet you can climb before lunch. So why do American hikers keep flying to Nepal? An honest, numbers-first comparison.
Industry & Tourism
New Tourism Board figures show foreigners still landing in Kathmandu through the wettest months of the year — because a quirk of Himalayan geography means parts of Nepal barely notice the monsoon at all.
Industry & Tourism
China's 2025 pledge to flood Nepal with half a million visitors delivered barely a fifth of that number. Days ago, a five-person tourism delegation from Sichuan sat down with Nepal Tourism Board to plan the next attempt.
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 visitors are coming from, and what the surge means for booking an autumn trek.
Industry & Tourism
No airline flies nonstop from Australia to Nepal, but the fastest routing still beats Qantas's record-breaking nonstop to London — real flight times, AUD trek costs and a sample itinerary for 2026.
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