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Notice for Participation in Travel Trade Fairs 2009

All tourism companies registered with Government of Nepal are encouraged to apply and participate. Application form for participation is available with Nepal Tourism Board. (The forms can be received on e-mail or downloaded from our website)

Duly filled up forms should be submitted to Accounts Unit, Corporate Services Department, NTB, along with full participation fees before the deadline. Participation shall be allowed on first come - first served basis.

* Rs. 160,000.00 is for individual table. Cost for staying in common area will be Rs.70, 000.00 (max. four first time participating companies and other conditions apply)

Note: Travel, hotel and visa arrangements will have to be made by the participants themselves.

Fair/Mart	Date	Participation Fee (Nrs)	Deadline for Application	No. of Companies	Contact
Vakantiebeurs, Utrecht, The Netherlands	14 – 18 January 2009	80,000/-	21 November,08	Four	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Nordic Travel Fair ( MATKA ), Helsinki, Finland	15-18 January 2009	65,000/-	21 November,08	Three	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
CMT- Stuttgart, Germany	17-25 January 2009		21 November,08	Five	Nepal German Chamber of Commerce & Industries This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
FITUR, Madrid, Spain	Jan. 28- Feb. 1, 2009	75,000/-	21 November, 08	Seventeen	Nepal Association of Tour & Travel Agents This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
BIT , Milan , Italy	19-22 February 2009	80,000/-	28 November, 08	Six	Trekking Agents Association of Nepal ( TAAN) This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Adventure Travel & Backpackers Expo., Melbourne , Australia	Melbourne ( 21-22 Feb. '09 )	65,000/-	28 November, 08	Four	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Tour Operators' Meet & Press Conference in Melbourne & Sydney, Australia	Melbourne- 19 Feb. '09 Sydney- 24 Feb. '09	15, 000/-	28 November, 08	Four	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
*ITB-Berlin, Germany	11-15 March 2009	160,000/-	28 November, 08	Fifteen	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Europe Sales Mission, Prague, Vienna & Budapest	16-21 March 2009	60,000/-	28 November, 08	Six	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
MITT- Moscow, Russia	18-21 March 2009	85,000/-	28 November, 08	Four	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Sales Mission in Beijing, Shanghai, Guanzhau, China	30 March-7 April '09	60,000/-	28 November, 08	Four	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Ilam district promoting tea tourism in Nepal

Even as travel trade entrepreneurs are exploring new avenues to cater to tourists, locals in Ilam have started to promote tea tourism to attract more visitors to the district. Locals aggressively engaged in implementing the concept are hopeful that it (tea tourism) would enable visitors to enjoy the serenity and vibrancy of tea estates and also help planters and producers promote their products and establish business networks.

Interestingly, one of the biggest supporters in this project is Thomas Holes, a German national who has been working to foster organic tea production in Nepal and help the produce gain access to the international market.
“It offers a huge potential,” said Holes, who is in Ilam for the second time this year. And this time he has even brought 12 of his friends here who he says have expressed immense satisfaction. Traveling around the tea estates, interacting with workers and spending nights in farmers’ cottages are exciting experiences for us, he said.

Tea tourism is not a new concept in the region though. Darjeeling, the town on the other side of the border, has gained popularity from the tea tourism the government of India promoted in the past.
In Nepal the concept was imported and is being pushed by Gorkha Tea Estate. “Increased interest of overseas buyers, visitors and researchers and inflow of a substantial number of study teams to Ilam has also raised the importance of tea tourism,” said Uday Chapagain, a tea producer.
He told the Post that tourists who visited the place in the past had invariably expressed their highest delight and pleasure after living with planters, interacting with locals and going around the place.
Their responses had triggered in his mind the idea of tea tourism and its potential. Chapagain has built a dozen cottages and developed other necessary infrastructure and facilities to cater to visitors’ needs and lure them to extend their stay in Ilam.
“If this concept gains popularity, each farmer will be directly able to enjoy a sound financial return from tourism,” said he.
A substantial number of visitors from the US, Japan, Sri Lanka, China and Switzerland, among others, have been frequenting Ilam and other tea producing districts in recent years to study tea and understand its production.
“Under tea tourism, we have made arrangements whereby visitors can stay at farmers’ homes as paying guests,” said Dorje Lama of Fikkal.
He elaborated that dozens of farmers of Sundarpani who are associated to Gorkha Tea Estate are already enjoying the benefits and many more are preparing to join in.

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Lalitpur District ( Patan)

Lalitpur district, a part of Bagmati zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Patan as its district headquarters, covers an area of 385 km² and has a population (2001) of 337,785.

Patan (Sanskrit:पाटन, Nepal Bhasa:यल) is one of the major cities of Nepal. The official name of the municipality is Lalitpur and it lies in the district with the same name (inside Kathmandu valley). Patan is often considered to be the oldest and most beautiful among the three royal cities (Kathmandu, Patan, Bhaktapur) in the Kathmandu Valley. It is best known for its finest tradition of arts and crafts and its rich cultural heritage.

Patan is situated on the elevated tract of land on the south side of the Bagmati River in Kathmandu Valley. It was developed on relatively thin layers of deposited clay and gravel in the central part of a dried ancient lake known as Nagdaha.

Patan has a population of approx. 200,000 (2006) in an area of 4.59 km². It is the fourth largest city of the Kingdom after Kathmandu, Biratnagar and Pokhara. Lalitpur Sub metropolitan municipality is divided in to 22 wards.

Latitude 27°40'45.25"N Longitude 85°19'37.23"E

The city spreads over 16 sq. kilometres and is divided into 22 Municipal wards. A substantial portion of the population is engaged in various trades, especially in traditional handicrafts and small scale cottage industries and the rest are busy in agriculture. Lalitpur is the only city in Nepal that has produced the highest number of renowned artists and finest craftsmen ever recorded in Nepalese Art History. The most famous Newar artists and master craftsmen like Arniko, Abhay Raj and Siddhi Raj were all born in Lalitpur. The city was initially designed in the shape of the Buddhist Dharma-Chakra (Wheel of Righteousness). The four thurs or mounds located on the perimeter of Patan are ascribed around, one at each corner of its cardinal points, which are popularly known as Ashoka Stupas. Legend has it that Emperor Ashoka (Legendary King of India) visited with his daughter Charumati to Kathmandu in 250 B.C. and erected five Ashoka Stupas, four in the surrounding and one at the middle of the Patan. The size and shape of these stupas seem to breathe their antiquity in a real sense. There are more than 1,200 Buddhist monuments of various shapes and sizes scattered in and around the city.

The most important monument of the city is Patan Durbar Square, which has been listed by UNESCO as one of seven Monument Zones that make up the Kathmandu Valley World Heritage Site.

The Patan Durbar Square is taken as the only monumental area in all three cities of the Kathmandu Valley that still outstands with its most magnificent architectural splendour and unique artistic beauty.

Patan has kept its cultural and its finest craftmanship alive even in the face of many social and political upheavals.

Cultural Heritage of Patan
Patan City was planned in Vihars and Bahils. Out of 295 Vihars and Bahils of the valley 56% of them are in Patan. The water conduits, stone spouts, Jaladroni (water tanks), artistic gate ways, Hindu temples and Buddhist Vihars adorn the city. The in built cultural heritage like the royal palace, with intricately carved doors and windows and beautiful courtyards adorned with exquisite icons enhance the beauty of the city. Such art pieces are found in stone, metal, terracotta ivory and other objects. All these artefacts exhibit artistic excellence of the craftsmen and the whole city looks like an open museum.

Places of Interest

Patan is a very artistic city. Most of the Nepalese art of any form is devoted to Gods. So, there are a lot of temples and bihars in the city. The main places of interest are

Patan Durbar Square: The residence of the Malla rulers of the then Patan state which is now converted into a museum.

Hiranya Varna Mahaa Vihar: A Buddhist temple known locally as Golden temple

Banglamukhi temple: A Hindu temple

Kumbeshwor temple: One of the two five-story pagoda temples of the valley

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