{"id":12874,"date":"2024-11-27T12:35:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T06:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=12874"},"modified":"2024-11-27T12:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T06:50:39","slug":"shey-phoksundo-becoming-preferred-destination-for-domestic-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/shey-phoksundo-becoming-preferred-destination-for-domestic-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Shey-Phoksundo becoming preferred destination for domestic tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Dolpa, Nov 27: The country&#8217;s deepest lake, also known as the blue diamond, continues to attract domestic and foreign tourists despite constant fall in temperature here.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Conservation Officer at Shey-Phoksundo National Park Nurendra Aryal informed that a total of 1,632 tourists, both domestic and foreign, visited the Phoksundo Lake area between mid-July and mid-October.<\/p>\n<p>Number of domestic tourists visiting the panoramic lake is higher in comparison to the foreign tourists. In the last five months, 326 tourists from SAARC and other countries visited Shey-Phoksundo, generating revenue of Rs 1.053 million, he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Park, revenue of Rs 6.57 million has been collected from the sale of forest produce, eco-tourism and charges since the beginning of the current fiscal year till October.<\/p>\n<p>Laxman Devkota, a local of Tripurasundari Municipality-1 said the number of domestic tourists has been increasing in the last few years as Dolpa is a place of beautiful religious and tourist destinations like Phoksundo Lake, Tripurasundari Temple, She-Gumba and Dho Tarap.<\/p>\n<p>He said the number of tourists would increase significantly if Nepalgunj-Dolpa flights are regularized, Bheri corridor is improved and hotels are properly arranged.<\/p>\n<p>According to hoteliers of Dunai, the district headquarters, Dolpa will benefit from domestic tourists rather than foreigners in terms of trade and business promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the tourists come here on motorcycles as they can easily reach Dunai by motorcycle and other vehicles through Nepalgunj-Surkhet-Jajarkot-Rukum route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolpa, Nov 27: The country&#8217;s deepest lake, also known as the blue diamond, continues to attract domestic and foreign tourists despite constant fall in temperature here. Chief Conservation Officer at Shey-Phoksundo National Park Nurendra Aryal informed that a total of 1,632 tourists, both domestic and foreign, visited the Phoksundo Lake area between mid-July and mid-October. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12876,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12874\/revisions\/12876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}